Welcome to the Comedians Defying Gravity Ticket Alert index for 2023! My hobby is scouring comedy listings to find the best shows whether I can attend or not. Is that weird? Well, no matter. My goal is at least one show -maybe more- for every day of the year. Because Chicago Comedy. Here’s what I’ve …
A Q&A with comedian David Heti, and it was more than OK
Why aren’t philosophers listed in the Yellow Pages? I need a philosopher to articulate the reasons for my existential dread. I could use a philosopher combined with a lawyer. Lawyers construct arguments as beautiful as geometric theorems to force us to address the wrongs that created the dread in the first place. What if I …
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Top ten secret things about tomorrow
[This post is in response to a ChicagoNow assignment: in one hour, “Write about your tomorrow. Not figuratively, literally write about anything that you hope, fear, believe, expect — anything — that you may experience tomorrow.”] 1. I have more energy in the late evenings than in the mornings, so sometimes I sleep in my …
Good girls can’t be funny!
[Note: this post is is a one-hour challenge from ChicagoNow: “Write about a time you made a mistake or were wrong about something.”] Growing up, I never thought I was funny. Worse, I thought I wasn’t allowed to be funny. Funny was reserved for people who had been chosen. I was somehow under the impression …
Which Hillary Clinton gets your vote: Amy Poehler or Kate McKinnon?
On Sunday, Hillary Clinton made the announcement we all were expecting: we’re going to be seeing a lot more of her on Saturday Night Live. Well, that’s not exactly what she said, but happily, it’s the same thing. But which Hillary will it be? Will it be Amy Poehler? Will she return? She has seniority, …
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