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Comedy Shows

Editor's Pick

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158 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.

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.

IO Theater

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

IO Theater

Armando Diaz Theatrical Experience and Hootenanny .

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.

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.

Bronzeville Coffee and Tea

Bronzeville Coffee House Comedy Show .

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.

Greenhouse Theater Center

Ceyx Series, The. Monthly variety.

Cornservatory

Champions of Improv Gladiators, The.

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.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar

Chicagoland and Fish Nuts. OPen run Chicago themed show.

Annoyance Theatre and Bar

Claymore + Wisesnatch.

The ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

College Improv Tournament Alumni League.

Timothy O'Toole's

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

The Montrose Room
(ComedySportz)

Comedy Sportz. Suburban Sportz.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

ComedySportz. Fast, funny improv suitable for all ages.

Raue Center For The Arts

Company.

IO Theater

Cook County Social Club. Get together with some sketch fiends.

Chicago Center for the Performing Arts
(Thirteen Pocket Productions)

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

Chemically Imbalanced Theater

Crash! Boom. As opposed to all those silent sketch shows.

Stage 773
(The Cupid Players)

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

IO Theater

DBaG. Who dat?

IO Theater

Deep Schwa.

Playground Theater
(BLEWT! Productions)

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

Royal George Theatre Center
(Bailiwick Chicago)

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

Gorilla Tango's Skokie Theatre
(Robert Curtis)

Dial with a Smile: An Office Musical .

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.

Royal George Theatre Center

Dixie's Tupperware Party. Real tupperware, fake host.

Stage 773

Does my Fat Ass Make my Ass Look Fat? .

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Don’t Blink: A Doctor Who Burlesque.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Don't Blink:A Doctor Who Burlesque.

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.

Eight Reindeer Monologues, The.

Gorilla Tango Theatre
(Salsation Theatre Company)

El Mari Chi Chi: A Robert Rodriguez Burlesque. ¡Arriba!

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.

Lucky Number Grill

Festival of Flesh.

Bird's Nest

Flock Yourself. A new open mic.

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

Free Improv Show, The.

ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

Free Night of Comedy. The name says it all.

Funny Story Show, The.

Playground Theater

Give Me 5. Funny for money.

Playground Theater

Give Me Five. Five for five.

Playground Theater

Grafitti.

Playground Theater

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

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Grass is Almost Greener, The.

Jerry's Sandwiches (Division)

Gulp Productions.

Powell's Bookstore (Lakeview)

Guts & Glory: Live Lit for the Lionhearted.

IO Theater

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

Playground Theater

Hill, The. Guess it's a patriarchy.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Holy Bouncing Boobies! A Batman Burlesque.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Hooter Rangers:A Spicy Morphing Burlesque.

ComedySportz Theatre

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

Strawdog Theatre
(Kevin Mullaney & Friends)

Hump Night.

IO Theater

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

Millennium Park
(Improvitecture)

Improvitecture. The John Hancock Tower is hilarious.

Playground Theater

ImprovStandsUp! .

Annoyance Theatre and Bar

In a World.... Voice over optional.

US Beer Company

International Bedlam Society Asylum Variety Show . Wait, what?

Playground Theater

Journey, The.

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.

Kinetic Jam, The.

Greenhouse Theater Center

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

Greenhouse Theater Center

Kiss Kiss Cabaret: Anniversary Show.

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.

Lincoln Restaurant
(Tight Five Productions)

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

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.

Playground Theater

Mixer, The. For anyone interested in improv whether you're brand new or old hat.

Chief O'Neill's
(Prop Theatre)

Music Mad.

The Gift Theatre Company

Natural Gas . Ahhh.

Metropolis Performing Arts Centre

New Play Festival.

No Shame Theatre.

IO Theater

Nogoodnicks. A fierce improv duo tackles overlapping narratives.

Stage773

Off Off Broadzway Presents: Trick or Teets!. Guests are encouraged to come in costume.

Studio BE

OINK!. Oink if it's funny.

Playground Theater

Out of Character. Improv it up.

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)

pHlip Cup.

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.

Please-O-Matic. Laugh naked.

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.

Royal George Theatre Center
(Quade Productions)

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

Zanies

Queer Comedy.

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.

Stage 773

Royal Jelly.

Playground Theater

Sandbox Improv Showcase, The.

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.

Pub Theater

Show Theodora!. The third Wednesday of every month.

Studio BE

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

Second City
(Second City)

Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies.

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.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

SuperBoobs: A Superhero Burlesque Adventure . Mischief, Mayhem, and Mighty Mammaries.

Playground Theater

Takin’ It to the Beats! .

The ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

Talk Hard.

Second City
(Second City)

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

Playground Theater

Telethon, The.

Gorilla Tango Theatre

Temple of Boobs: An Indiana Jones Burlesque. The Geek Girls will reveal all…

Neo-Futurarium
(Barrel of Monkeys)

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

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.

Oracle Theatre

Tonight It's Live. Almost famous.

IO Theater

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

The ComedySportz Theatre
(ComedySportz)

Two-Dollar Bill, The.

Intercontinental Chicago O'Hare Hotel
(Annoyance Theatre)

Un-Tied. Revvin' up Rosemont.

(Second City)

Variety. It...varies.

Cornservatory

Variety Show – A Drinking Game Performance, The. Drink up!

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.

(Silent Theatre)

Wild Party Variety Hour, The. No plot, no special effects, just pure entertainment.

Playground Theater

Williams & Martinez.

Playground Theater

Williams & Martinez . Funny together.

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