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Comedy Shows

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123 Performances Found

IO Theater

1, 2, 3, Fag!.

IO Theater

1, 2, Fag + Hag!. I prefer the term beard.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

100 Proof Comedy and the Chaser.

(Collaboraction)

200 Funny Things. An outrageous sketch comedy experiment.

IO Theater

3033. Veteran improvisers reunite for big laughs.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life, The. Miss this at your own risk.

Playground Theater
(After Party)

After Party. Catch an always-new, late-night show.

Studio BE

Americans in Peril!. Satire for the citizens.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

An Overhead Project. They're projecting.

IO Theater

Armando Diaz Experience, Theatrical Movement & Hootenanny. Giggle along with alumni of Second City and IO.

Cornservatory

Aunt Nancy and Doggie Tales. Doggone funny.

RadioStar
(Bortz Entertainment Group)

Awesome 80's Prom, The. Head back to the '80s at this bitchin' interactive show.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater
(Chemically Imbalanced Comedy)

Bad Review. Don't hate bad reviews. Embrace them.

Mary's Attic
(Bare Boned Theatre)

Bare Boned Cabaret. New comedy, improv, sketch and cabaret every third Sunday of the month.

ComedySportz Theatre

Battle-Prov. An all-out improv fight, ComedySportz-style.

IO Theater

Beatbox, The. Complete with rap jam.

Playground Theater

Belmont Burlesque Revue. A revealing, late-night comedy and dance show.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Best of Sketch & Sniff 2010. A year to remember.

Second City
(Second City)

Best of the Second City, The. The second city's finest improv.

Playground Theater

Big Yellow Bus. Ensemble members tickle audience members' funny bones.

IO Theater

Black Ted Williams . Open-run improv.

ComedySportz Theatre

Blackout. Late night long-form improv by five African-American dudes.

Apollo Studio Theater
(The Blu Mic)

Blu Mic, The. Solid stand-up in an intimate setting.

Harrigan's

Boner-Rama. Get it up for these gals. I mean, give it up. I mean...

Gorilla Tango Theatre

BOOBS and GOOMBAS: A Super Mario Burlesque. I don't want to see Luigi's undergarments.

Apollo Theater
(GayCo)

Breast In Show. Simply the breast.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Brokeback Fountains Improv Hour . They'll make you laugh and make you question your morals.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Brother, Can You Spare Some Change?. Now that the election ho-ha is over, it's back to funny business as usual.

Pub Theater

Bye Bye Liver: The Chicago Drinking Play. The real star of this hilarious sketch show? The bottle.

Beat Kitchen
(Chicago Underground Comedy)

Chicago Underground Comedy. Saucy stand-ups take the stage Tuesday nights.

Gunther Murphy's
(Chicago Underground Comedy)

Chicago Underground Comedy. Five stand-up comedians wield their best material weekly.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Chicagoland. See the city through the eyes of long-form improv.

Timothy O'Toole's

Comedians You Should Know. Think you know all there is to know about local comedy? Think again.

Playground Theater

Comedy Queue. Queue up.

The Montrose Room
(ComedySportz)

Comedy Sportz. Suburban Sportz.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

ComedySportz. Fast, funny improv suitable for all ages.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

ComedySportz Crew Meets Winnie-The-Pooh, The. Pooh, who?

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(Thirteen Pocket Productions)

Cool Table, The. Improv comedy with a rock-star vibe.

IO Theater
(The Cupid Players)

Cupid Has a Heart On: A Musical Guide to Relationships. First comes love, then comes marriage...

Playground Theater
(BLEWT! Productions)

Demon Who Never Appeared, A. From stand-up to improv, this show's got every comedy covered.

16th Street Theater
(16th Street Theater)

Dental Society Midwinter Meeting. What's not hilarious about dentistry?

Royal George Theatre Center
(Bailiwick Chicago)

Departure Lounge. The white zone is for loading and unloading only.

Town Hall Pub
(Dirty Water)

Dirty Water. Fun-loving, wise-cracking improv artists rock the stage.

Bella Bacinos
(Dirty Water )

Dirty Water. Improv comedy set in a South Boston sports bar.

Playground Theater
(Blewt! Productions)

Don't Spit the Water!. A late night game show so funny it'll make you spit.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

Dummy. Who you calling dummy?

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

Easter Bunny Visits, The. Bunnies are funny!

Fusion
(Dave Odd Productions Entertainment)

Edge Underground Comedy Club, The. Edge isn't just the name of this stand-up showcase.

Town Hall Pub

Entertaining Julia. It's free, it's funny and it's full of spastic performers.

Book Cellar

Essay Fiesta. Words words words.

IO Theater
(Atticus Finch)

Felt. What's funnier than improv? Sassy puppets performing improv.

Flanagan's Wake. It's your funeral.

Town Hall Pub

Fourth Friday Comedy Night. Catch funny folks making jokes every fourth Friday at Town Hall Pub.

The Playground Theater
(Koleno, the Panty Filers, and Hair Club for Men)

Free for All, The. Nothing's for free eh?

Playground Theater

Give Me 5. Funny for money.

Playground Theater

Grafitti. We can't get our fill of Adventure Club.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

GTT Open Mic Night. Monday is a notoriously bad TV night…

IO Theater

Harold, The. IO's signature, long-form improv piece.

Steppenwolf Merle Reskin Garage Theatre

Heddatron. Ibsen or bust.

Playground Theater

Hill, The. Guess it's a patriarchy.

ComedySportz Theatre

Hot Karl, The. There's a reason this "mature" improv show doesn't go on until the wee hours.

IO Theater

Improvised Shakespeare. Improv that uses the bard's language and themes.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar

In a World.... Voice over optional.

US Beer Company

International Bedlam Society Asylum Variety Show . Wait, what?

Improv

Jo Koy.

Donny's Skybox Studio

Joy Story. Toys and joy.

Book Cellar

Kates, The. No one in this comedy show is actually named Kate.

Mercury Cafe

Kates, The. No one in this comedy group is actually named Kate.

Playground Theater

Kidz Movie Club. No kidding.

Greenhouse Theater Center

Kiss Kiss Cabaret. A Chicago-based neo-vaudeville, burlesque cabaret.

Second City

Late Live Show with Joe Kwaczala, The. Talk it out.

Royal George Theatre Center

Late Nite Catechism. Enroll in a class of Sister's sharp religious humor.

Laugh Out Loud Theater
(Laugh Out Loud Theater)

Laugh Out Loud. Now there's even more improv comedy in Schaumburg.

No Exit Cafe

Laughing Liberally Chicago. Laughing left.

Apollo Studio Theater
(GroundUp Theatre)

Letters/X.

Lincoln Restaurant
(Tight Five Productions)

Lincoln Lodge, The. Hot, saucy stand-up next to a down-home diner.

Donny's Skybox Studio

Mayhem. Controlled chaos.

Copley Theatre
(TOC Productions)

Menopause the Musical. Hot flashes, memory loss and chocolate binges galore.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar
(Annoyance Theatre)

Messing With A Friend. Top comedians fill a rotating spot in this two-person improv show.

The Gift Theatre Company

Natural Gas . Ahhh.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts

Never Been to Paris. Live live live.

IO Theater

Nogoodnicks. A fierce improv duo tackles overlapping narratives.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Nothing is Sacred Comedy Tour. No alternative.

Studio BE

OINK!. Oink if it's funny.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHamily the Musical. Smart, funny improv you can sing along with.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHarm pHresh. Mmmmm.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHrenzy. Vote for the funniest performer of the evening.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHrenzy PG.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

pHrenzy pHucked. Balls-out, no holds barred improv that encourages BYOB.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater
(Bucky's Planet Productions and Chemically Imbalanced Comedy)

Pimprov. Pimps improvise. Yeah, you read right.

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

Pimprov presents: Tricks and Treats. Pimp it.

Second City ETC
(Second City)

Pratfall of Civilization. "Pratfall of Civilization" takes aim at America and hits its mark (mostly).

Pressure Billiards & Cafe
(Edge Comedy)

Pressure Open Mic. Weekly mixer of comedy and caffeine.

Playground Theater

Process. Work in process.

Royal George Theatre Center
(Quade Productions)

Put the Nuns in Charge!. Roll in the aisles with a little religious humor.

Ontourage

Red Bar Comedy Show, The. Fresh stand-up in an upscale, Vegas-style venue.

Tommy Gun's Garage
(Da Gangsters & Da Flappers)

Roaring 20's Audience Interactive Musical Comedy Holiday Dinner Show. Take a trip back to 1920s Christmas.

Mercury Theater

Screwtape Letters, The . C.S. Lewis writes Christian satire.

Shits & Giggles. This gender-queer cabaret runs the first Sunday of every month.

Crocodile

Show Below, The. Funny is free.

Studio BE

Sketch-travaganza: Best of Sketchfest. Themed hours of sketch comedy...what more could you want?

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

Stevens Family, The. Hillbilly comedy.

IO Theater

Stranded: The Improvised Musical. Send a duo of improv artists to a stranded island.

Royal George Theatre Center

Sunday School Cinema. The ruler-wielding nun sets her sights on Hollywood.

Second City
(Second City)

Taming of the Flu. It's a comedy epidemic.

Irish American Heritage Center
(Seanachai Theatre Company)

That Was Then. What would you do for money?

Neo-Futurarium
(Barrel of Monkeys)

That's Weird, Grandma.

Neo-Futurarium
(Barrel of Monkeys)

That's Weird, Grandma. A boisterous group serves up kids' work for adults.

Zoo Studio
(The Mammals)

The Dream Journal of Dr. Jekyll. A steampunk thriller.

Richochets Tavern (4644 N. Lincoln Ave.)

The Paper Machete. It's like a blog in real-life form.

Gallery Cabaret

The Two-Hour Comedy Hour. They defy the laws of time.

Playground Theater

Thursday Happy Hour. Comedic actors. Character monologues. What else do you need to know?

Chicago Improv

Tommy Davidson. Funny guy.

Tommy Gun's Garage

Tommy Gun’s Garage. I am the twenties, hear me roar.

IO Theater

Topaz. Improvers in denim jumpsuits mix homoeroticism with fight scenes.

Intercontinental Chicago O'Hare Hotel
(Annoyance Theatre)

Un-Tied. Revvin' up Rosemont.

Paramount Theatre

Vagina Monologues. Say it loud and say it proud.

(Second City)

Variety. It...varies.

Chase Auditorium
(NPR and Chicago Public Radio)

Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me. Listen in on the nationally broadcast comedy-news quiz show.

Studio BE
(pH Productions)

Wheel of pHortune. The wheel of pHortune spins, picking new improv every night.

IO Theater

Whirled News Tonight. A satirical turn on current events.

IO Theater

Whirled News Tonight 6th Anniversary!. Before the Daily Show there was...

Comedy Shrine Theater
(Comedy Shrine)

Whose Line?. The classic t.v. show comes to life...as improv.

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