Nick Offerman's Influences: His Wife, Steve Martin, and (Actually) Nature
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Grade School Gets Raunchy with Teachers
Starting this week, six Chicago improvisers star in a new TV Land sitcom.
Silicon Valley Star T.J. Miller Says Nietzsche Made Him Funny
Well, him and a few other people. The comedian and actor talks about his influences.
Two Chicago comedians set out to prove that feminism can be in ‘Ladies Night’
There's a recurring scene in the new late-night sketch show "Rehner & Nixon Present: Ladies Night! A Sketch Show With Gumption," in which comedy duo Mollie Rehner and Katie Nixon...
Don’t get mad, get even
It doesn't get better, says one character as part of a critique of Dan Savage's viral anti-bullying campaign, you have to make it better. That's exactly what a couple of...
Stand-Up Scene: This weekend’s comedy included a dog at the mic
A quick scan of the room at Bric-a-Brac Records in Logan Square reveals a row of action figures from the movie "Alien" (including one with his chest burst open), an...
Stand-up Scene: In Lakeview, the most comedy per capita
Ahh, Lakeview. Home to nearly 100,000 Chicagoans, mostly apartment dwellers who live tightly like sardines (albeit the kind of sardines who do shots of Jeppson's Malort at 4 a.m. bars)...
Stand-up Scene: In Chicago, writing your own love note to comedy
During the standup boom of the late 1980s and early '90s, my parents constantly dragged my older brother and me to comedy clubs around the country. I was awfully young...
Stand-Up Scene: Funny in the face of the freeze
Chicagoans love to complain about winter and it seems their response to sub-zero temps is to stay home. But if winter is making us miserable, it would seem the panacea...
Standup Scene: Following through on our resolutions
It's a packed house at the"5th Annual New Year's Hangover Stand-Up Marathon" at the ComedySportz in Lakeview. Apparently Chicagoans have resolved to see more comedy in 2015, and what a...