Please confirm all details before leaving home in case something’s changed! Shows to add? Please email me at temewring@gmail.com. Wishing you laughter every day! This list’s goal is to help make that happen with events for every day of the year. I add frequently, so check back. Infinite thanks always to the Chicago comedy community […]
Chicago comedy highlights for Monday, October 31-Sunday, November 6, 2022
Chicago Comedy Spotlight for Monday, October 24-Sunday, October 30, 2022
CHICAGO COMEDIANS IN THE NEWS: Samantha Irby and Amy Poehler both contributed to Amber Tamblyn’s new anthology Listening in the Dark. Fatimah Asghar, who co-created and co-starred in the Emmy-nominated Brown Girls, became a critically acclaimed author with their 2018 poetry collection If They Come For Us. Their new work is the novel When We […]
CHICAGO COMEDIANS IN THE NEWS Chicago comedians on TV and in the news! The Bad Momz of Comedy appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show on October 12. The Chicago based group is Colleen Brennan, Lia Berman and Orly K.G. Watch here! You can see the Bad Momz at Zanies Rosemont on November 2. WGN Morning […]
CHICAGO COMEDIANS IN THE NEWS: Matt Braunger released his new album Doug on October 6. Subhah Agarwal’s released her new album Dog Show on October 7. There’s a new theater in town! Scott Whitehair opened the Jekot Theater upstairs at Mrs. Murphy’s & Sons (3905 N. Lincoln). Up next on October 16: Jimmy Carrane’s hit […]
I don’t know how we got home from Elgin. It was a long drive, but all I remember is my husband and me, immersed in an altered state discussing Jimmy Carrane’s World’s Greatest Dad(?). We were returning from this year’s Elgin Fringe Festival where we’d seen Jimmy’s reboot of the show he first launched in […]
Never mind Covid, there’s an epidemic of pessimism these days. If you could inoculate yourself against pessimism, would you do it? Well, you can! This Saturday, Stephanie Miller’s Sexy Liberal Save Democracy Tour arrives at the Harris Theater in downtown Chicago. The tour is the brainchild of Hal Sparks who makes a persuasive case that […]
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