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Comedy Shows
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95 Performances Found
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IO Theater
3033. Veteran improvisers reunite for big laughs.
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Playground Theater
(After Party)
After Party. Catch an always-new, late-night show.
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Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Stripper's Picnic)
America's Next Pop Bottle . Stripper's Picnic teams up with improv guests SHTL for—you guessed it—improv.
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IO Theater
Armando Diaz Experience, Theatrical Movement & Hootenanny. Giggle along with alumni of Second City and IO.
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RadioStar
(Bortz Entertainment Group)
Awesome 80's Prom, The. Head back to the '80s at this bitchin' interactive show.
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Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Productions)
Bad Touch: Unsavory Improv. Prepare to squirm at this anything-goes improv show.
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ComedySportz
(ComedySportz)
Battle Prov. An all-out improv fight, ComedySportz-style.
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Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Theatre)
Bear Force One. Forget Harrison Ford's "Air Force One." This is the bear-filled spoof.
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Prop Thtr
(Beast Women)
BeastWomen 2008. It's been five years, but the Beast Women are back!
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Playground Theater
Belmont Burlesque Revue. A revealing, late-night comedy and dance show.
Editors Pick!reviewed!clearspacer
Second City
(Second City)
Best of the Second City, The. The second city's finest improv.
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Northlight Theatre
(Northlight Theatre)
Better Late. Better late than never, or just better late?
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Second City
(Second City)
Between Barack and a New Show. The primaries are coming up fast, so get some more Barack luv on.
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Playground Theater
Big Yellow Bus. Ensemble members tickle audience members' funny bones.
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Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Produced by Tim Skau)
Blow Me, Seriously. Daily acts of rebellion make-up the meat of this show.
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Apollo Studio Theater
(The Blu Mic)
Blu Mic, The. Solid stand-up in an intimate setting.
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Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Big Dog Eat Child)
Boozelegger’s Ball . Not only can you drink while watching this show..
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Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Recapitulation)
Brat Pack: An Improvised Musical . Improvised musicals meet coming-of-age 80's movies.
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Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(Pub Theatre)
Bye Bye Liver: The Chicago Drinking Play. The real star of this hilarious sketch show? The bottle.
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Gunther Murphy's
(Chicago Underground Comedy)
Chicago Underground Comedy. Five stand-up comedians wield their best material weekly.
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Beat Kitchen
(Chicago Underground Comedy)
Chicago Underground Comedy. Saucy stand-ups take the stage Tuesday nights.
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Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Productions)
Chicagoland. See the city through the eyes of long-form improv.
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Chicago Shakespeare Theater
(Chicago Shakespeare Theater)
Comedy of Errors, The . It's Shakespeare's classic story of mistaken identities in Ephesus.
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Chemically Imbalanced Theatre
Comedy Showcase. A ton of comics participate in the 8th Annual Comedy Showcase.
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Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(ComedySportz)
ComedySportz. Fast, funny improv suitable for all ages.
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Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(Thirteen Pocket Productions)
Cool Table, The. Improv comedy with a rock-star vibe.
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Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Productions)
Crickets. Short-form improv that's intentionally rude.
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Chicago Actors Studio
(Stockyards Theatre Project)
Criminal Hearts. An agoraphobic Gold Coast wife meets her match late one night...
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IO Theater
(The Cupid Players)
Cupid Has a Heart On: A Musical Guide to Relationships. Burned by love? This satire burns love right back.
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Playground Theater
(BLEWT! Productions)
Demon Who Never Appeared, A. From stand-up to improv, this show's got every comedy covered.
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Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Dramatis Personae)
Den of Thieves . Maggie's newly single, binges on junk food and shoplifts. Yeah, she's the main character.
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Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Salsation Theatre Company)
Devil Wears Chanklas, The . Yes, in fact the devil does not wear Prada. She actually wears chanklas.
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Wilmette Theatre
(Caryn Bark)
Diary of a Skokie Girl. What could be funnier than growing up in Skokie?
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Bailiwick Arts Center
(Hell in a Handbag Productions)
Die! Mommie, Die!. The campiest theatre in Chicago takes it up a notch with Charles Busch's homage to 1960s thriller films. Oh, man!
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Townhall Pub
(Dirty Water Improv)
Dirty Water. Fun-loving, wise-cracking improv artists rock the stage.
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Second City ETC
(Second City)
Disposable Nation. From stem cells to smokers to Pluto-everything in America is disposable.
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Playground Theater
(Blewt! Productions)
Don't Spit the Water!. A late night game show so funny it'll make you spit.
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Chemically Imbalanced Theater
(Tha Weave and 21st Century Men)
Double Feature. Two long-form improv groups do their comedy thing.
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Fusion
(Dave Odd Productions Entertainment)
Edge Underground Comedy Club, The. Edge isn't just the name of this stand-up showcase.
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Town Hall Pub
Entertaining Julia. It's free, it's funny and it's full of spastic performers.
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Famous Freddie's Roadhouse
(Mikey O Comedy Productions)
Fajitas, Greens & All In Betweens Comedy Show. It's a lesson in diversity—with jokes, of course.
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IO Theater
(Atticus Finch)
Felt. What's funnier than improv? Sassy puppets performing improv.
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Town Hall Pub
Fourth Friday Comedy Night. Catch funny folks making jokes every fourth Friday at Town Hall Pub.
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Apollo Studio Theater
(Sarah King/flashlite productions)
good crazy/bad crazy. Everyone is crazy, but some people are better at hiding it—sort of.
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Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Productions)
Grabass: A Carnival of Dummy. Only smarty-pants can pull together a show in 24 hours.
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Playground Theater
Grafitti. We can't get our fill of Adventure Club.
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Apollo Studio Theater
(Grandma June's Sewing Circle)
Grandma Junes's Sewing Circle . Get your Monday nite laughs on.
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IO Theater
Harold, The. IO's signature, long-form improv piece.
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IO Theater
Improvised Shakespeare. Improv that uses the bard's language and themes.
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Pheasant Run Theatre
(Noble Fool Theatricals)
Late Nite Catechism. Chicago's nun-filled comedy hits the 'burbs.
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Royal George Theatre Center
Late Nite Catechism. Enroll in a class of Sister's sharp religious humor.
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Annoyance Theatre
(Late Nite Tit-Bits)
Late Nite Tit-Bits. It's time to get naughty...
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National Pastime Theater
(Infamous Commonwealth Theatre)
Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates. What if Lewis and Clark also traversed Vietnam and Iraq?
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Annoyance Theatre
'Lil' Talent Show, A. Wax nostalgic about the high school talent show.
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Lincoln Restaurant
(Tight Five Productions)
Lincoln Lodge, The. Hot, saucy stand-up next to a down-home diner.
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Piccolo Theatre
(Piccolo Theatre)
Lust, Lies & Marriage. It's all crazy love all the time in this Italian farce Commedia dell'Arte-style show.
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Copley Theatre
(TOC Productions)
Menopause the Musical. Hot flashes, memory loss and chocolate binges galore.
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Annoyance Theatre
(Annoyance Productions)
Messing With A Friend. Top comedians fill a rotating spot in this two-person improv show.
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IO Theater
Nogoodnicks. A fierce improv duo tackles overlapping narratives.
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Marriott Theatre
(Marriott Theatre)
Nunsense. Sister Julia accidentally poisoned 52 nuns. What now?
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Theatre 355
(Elgin Theatre Company)
Nunsense II - The Second Coming. Thanks for helping bury all those nuns!
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Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)
pHamily. Short-form improv, pHamily-style.
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Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)
pHamily the Musical. Smart, funny improv you can sing along with.
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Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)
pHreedom pHalls: StapH Infection. Rx for dull times? Improv spoofs of hospital t.v. shows!
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Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)
pHrenzy. Improv competition fueled by booze.
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Stage Left Theatre
(pH Productions)
pHrenzy pHucked. Balls-out, no holds barred improv that encourages BYOB.
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The Neofuturarium
(Neo-Futurists)
Picked Up. Television pilots and theatre—two unlikely bedfellows—wrestle in this new ever-changing production.
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Chemically Imbalanced Theater
(Chemically Imbalanced Comedy and Bucky’s Planet Productions)
Pimprov. Pimps improvise.
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Peter Jones Gallery
(Halcyon Theatre)
Pirandello's Henry IV. An Italian nobleman falls off his horse and then thinks he's a medieval German emperor.
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Second City ETC
(Second City)
Pratfall of Civilization. "Pratfall of Civilization" takes aim at America and hits its mark (mostly).
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La Grange Theater
(Rolling Mojo Comedy Revue )
Pre-Mother's Day Bash. Live comedy for your mom. But not about your mom, we hope.
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Pressure Billiards & Cafe
(Edge Comedy)
Pressure Open Mic. Weekly mixer of comedy and caffeine.
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Royal George Theatre Center
(Quade Productions)
Put the Nuns in Charge!. Roll in the aisles with a little religious humor.
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Corn Productions
Seen. Heard. Touched. Loved: School of Fishes. The winners of the Original Improv Gladiators take it to the next level.
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Annoyance Theatre
(Skinprov)
Skinprov. Take it off, funny boy!
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American Theater Company
(American Theater Company)
Speech and Debate. Three misfits air their teacher's dirty online secrets.
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Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
Speedating. The fast-paced, modern dating phenomena leaves the bars and hits the stage.
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Comedy Shrine Theater
Spew, The. The Comedy Shrine spoofs "The View."
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Annoyance Theatre
Stations. The flyer says it all: "Tech Music Effects Funny!"
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The McAninch Arts Center
(Buffalo Theatre Ensemble)
Stones in His Pockets. What happens when a bad Hollywood film is shot in rural Ireland?
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IO Theater
Stranded: The Improvised Musical. Send a duo of improv artists to a stranded island.
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Royal George Theatre Center
Sunday School Cinema. The ruler-wielding nun sets her sights on Hollywood.
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Annoyance Theatre
Switch Hitters. Stand-up comedy and improv make nice.
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Neo-Futurarium
(Barrel of Monkeys)
That's Weird, Grandma. A boisterous group serves up kids' work for adults.
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Gorilla Tango Theatre
(The Essentials )
The Essentials: A Challenge for the Actor . Traditional theatre meets sketch comedy.
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Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Robot vs. Dinosaur)
The Greatest Stories Never Told...TOLD! . Crazy shenanigans collide with dinosaurs, the Old West, battlefields and more.
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IO Theater
The Improv Match Game. The glowing box doesn't stand a chance against this improv.
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Various
(Various)
Theater Thursdays. Catch new shows and accompanying theater-related events every Thursday.
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Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Three Cat Media)
Three Cat Thursdays. Local and national artists headline the cabaret series, with a different show format each week.
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Playground Theater
Thursday Happy Hour. Comedic actors. Character monologues. What else do you need to know?
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IO Theater
Topaz. Improvers in denim jumpsuits mix homoeroticism with fight scenes.
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Gorilla Tango Theatre
(The Essentials)
Truth, The . All truth, all the time.
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Chase Bank Auditorium
(NPR and Chicago Public Radio)
Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me. Listen in on the nationally broadcast comedy-news quiz show.
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IO Theater
Whirled News Tonight. A satirical turn on current events.
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Comedy Shrine Theater
(Comedy Shrine)
Whose Line?. The classic t.v. show comes to life...as improv.

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