Allan Johnson

It will be a slightly different Culture Clash performing at this weekend's Latin Music Festival. But don't worry. The spirit of the comedy theater group will still be intact. "We...

Let's all wish Casey Toomey a happy first birthday on Saturday. Casey is the son of Chicago comic Mike Toomey and his wife, Beth. He also has an older brother,...

The New Look Bears? The New Name Bears? Take your pick of nicknames for the 1994-95 Chicago Bears; either would fit. Many familiar names are gone from last year's team....

Let's take a ride in the Mobile-O-Comedy, and see what's on the humorous highways and byways: - ComedySportz is celebrating 10 years of combining improvisation with elements of athletic competition....

Everyone has been embarrassed by something or someone in gym class. Jenny D. of Wheeling certainly has. "Yeah," she chuckles when remembering the day she was playing soccer in gym,...

Peep this: A popular African-American standup comedian has a new CD out that is all music, with one single getting play on Chicago radio stations and around the country, and...

The last time Mark Klein appeared at a Chicago comedy club: - "Byrne, Baby, Byrne" was at Zanies, where Klein also worked. - Klein was part of a comedy team...

Now here's something you don't see every day: A different four headliners performing at a comedy club on each of four nights in a row. Throw in another night-the opener-with...

Jim Labriola is strapped on a rocket to the stars, and ain't nobody gonna shoot him down! Well, that's a little melodramatic (as well as pretty crummy-sounding), but when you...

Different audiences sometimes require different approaches for a comic to get them laughing. But if a comedian has material that's universal in nature, they should have success no matter what...