Beyond, Comedy, Stages

Review: 5th Annual Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival Brings The Laughs

[soliloquy id=”18461″]   Stage 773 is home to quite a bit of fun, funny theater and comedy all year round. This past weekend, though, it saw the invasion of the […]

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Film, Film & TV

Big Stories and Big Love Make The Big Sick Tick

Though it hadn’t seen nationwide release until today, The Big Sick is already all over the news.  The film features Kumail Nanjiani, a Pakistani-born stand-up comedian who came up in the comedy world via our […]

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Comedy, Stages

The Kates Prove Chicago Comedy Can Help You Get Thru Winter Misery

So Chicago is pretty good, right? The weather is shit, but it’s just as miserable and gray in Minneapolis or Milwaukee or Cleveland or Buffalo. Unlike those cities, in Chicago […]

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Front page

Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 11/10 – 11/13

Please note: I could go on for days, but I’ll keep it short. The election cycle has run its course again and a large majority of individuals, myself included, are […]

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Comedy, Stages

Highs and Lows from the Comedy Exposition

Guest Author Patrick McManus is a stand-up comic living and working in Chicago. Patrick is a real cool guy who won the 100 Proof Comedy’s Chicago’s Top College Comedian Competition […]

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Comedy, Previews, Stages

PREVIEW: See stand up all weekend at The Comedy Exposition

Guest Author Patrick McManus is a stand-up comic living and working in Chicago. Patrick is a real cool guy who won the 100 Proof Comedy’s Chicago’s Top College Comedian Competition […]

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Stages, Theater

The Laser Comedy Show Reviewed

I like lasers and I like comedy. When I gave my 6-year-old son, Pudge, the opportunity to pick a show for us to see together, he was quick to select […]

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Comedy, Stages

Chicago’s “SketchFest,” the Largest of Its Kind, Runs Its 15th Festival

Chicago may be mocked as the second city, but one thing the city excels at is comedy — especially sketch and improv-based comedy. In fact, the Chicago Comedy Sketch Fest (“SketchFest”) […]

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