2025 Chicago Comedy Ticket Alerts: 365 days of laughter (a list in progress)

By Teme Ring | December 30, 2024

Please confirm all details before leaving home in case something’s changed! Shows to add? Please email me at temewring@gmail.com. Happy laughing! And infinite thanks to the Chicago comedy community for making this site possible. JANUARY January 1: Ladylike at Lincoln Lodge January 1: Comics That Kill at Laugh Factory January 1: The Devil is in […]

2025 Chicago Comedy Ticket Alerts: 365 days of laughter (a list in progress)

By Teme Ring | December 30, 2024

Please confirm all details before leaving home in case something’s changed! Shows to add? Please email me at temewring@gmail.com. Happy laughing! And infinite thanks to the Chicago comedy community for making this site possible. JANUARY January 1: Ladylike at Lincoln Lodge January 1: Comics That Kill at Laugh Factory January 1: The Devil is in […]

The Maybe Exhaustive Guide to the Most Noteworthy Comedy Bios & Memoirs of 2024

By Teme Ring | December 23, 2024

The Mee-Ow Show put Evanston’s Northwestern University on the comedy map. And someone finally wrote about it! Mee-Ow alums include Paul Barrosse, Dana Olsen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Seth Meyers, Ana Gasteyer, Dermot Mulroney, Craig Bierko and Kristin Schaal. Joseph Radding was the Mee-Ow Show’s first Surrealist in Residence. Paul W. Warshauer was one of the show’s […]

It’s “Weird” and It’s Going to Get Weirder: A Q&A with the Practical Theatre Company

By Teme Ring | December 17, 2024

December 17, 2024 I got this text today: Dear Comedians Defying Gravity, Do you know what comedy is happening this weekend … wow, do I need it! ~Signed: This Year Was Too Much Dear TYWTM, Perfect timing! I just caught up with Victoria Zielinski, Paul Barrosse and Dana Olsen a/k/a The Practical Theatre Company. Their […]

Middle Western Middle Eastern: A Q&A with Paul Farahvar

By Teme Ring | December 8, 2024

December 8, 2024 What do these things have in common: Attorney, Actualizer, and Authentic? An Accurate answer is Paul Farahvar, an A-List multi-talented comedian known for his unique life, original wit, and a knack for comedic storytelling that will have you hanging on to every word. His most recent special Middle Western Middle Eastern is […]

18 (!) Shows: Monday, September 16-Sunday, September 22, 2024

By Teme Ring | September 16, 2024

CHICAGO COMEDIANS IN THE NEWS Major comedy happening in Chicago this week! The What’s Funny Comedy Festival begins tomorrow night and goes through Sunday. Events include a tribute to Mary Lindsey, standup from Sherri Shepherd, and an opportunity to attend Lil Rel Howery‘s standup special television recording. Schedule below! She’s Got Issues magazine published this […]

Ali Clayton’s “Country Queer” is an Adventure in Laughter, Grit and Surprise

By Teme Ring | August 6, 2024

August 6, 2024 Finding your identity and true voice can be an exhilarating mission and a heaping load of faceplants. Sometimes you’re rocketing up, up, up to success. Sometimes you’re plummeting down, down, down to hell. I’ve been in all those places. Maybe you have, too. One of the things I love about Ali Clayton? […]