2026 Chicago Comedy Ticket Alerts: 365 Days of Laughter (A Work in Progress)

By Teme Ring | December 10, 2025

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 Ticket Alerts for 2024

By Teme Ring | December 29, 2023

Chicago has original, unforgettable comedy every single day of the year. I started these calendars to see if I could prove it and I did! I’ll do the same in 2024 – find a show for every day and more. Feel free to send show info my way. I’m always adding, so keep checking back. […]

Ho-Ho-How To Laugh at 2023: A Q&A with the Practical Theatre Company

By Teme Ring | December 15, 2023

Once upon a time, you could switch on your TV in December and sink into a spectacular year-end special. Bleak skies, frigid temperatures and, God help us, the news, would be kept at bay for an hour or two as you luxuriated in comedy, music and holiday cheer with the King Family, Dean Martin, the […]

Chicago New Year’s Eve Comedy: December 31, 2023

By Teme Ring | December 8, 2023

Please confirm all details! If you have a show to add, email me: temewring@gmail.com. Thank you for supporting Comedians Defying Gravity in 2023! Wishing everyone a happy, healthy New Year with as much happiness and as many laughs as a year can hold. Holiday Improv Brunch at Second City, 12:00 p.m. Steve Cochran’s NYE Comedy […]

Kyle Kinane: Shocks & Struts

By Teme Ring | November 19, 2023

I’ve asked Kyle Kinane for his secret in two separate interviews, one in 2020 and one more recently. He revealed an answer. But I’m still not convinced I actually know how he does what he does on the level he does it. I’d love to figure out how he became a word wizard, a linguistic […]

We would be happier majoring in everything: A Q&A with Andrea Jones-Rooy

By Teme Ring | November 7, 2023

Andrea Jones-Rooy/Photo by Ely Kay ********** Q: A professor, a comedian and a circus performer walked into a bar. How many people walked into the bar? A: Just one. Who is this remarkable one person? She is Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy. As a professor at New York University, as a comedian, trapeze artist and fire dancer, […]

Intimate and Appropriate: A Q&A with Paul Thomas

By Teme Ring | October 12, 2023

A new Paul Thomas show is always big news. So when I first heard that Paul’s Intimate and Appropriate debuts at The Den Theatre from October 18-21, I wanted to know everything or at least whatever Paul would tell me. Paul kindly agreed to Zoom. First, he told me, the show is a series of […]

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