comedy

If you haven't been following the dust-between online retailer Amazon and publishing giant Hachette, a recently posted video may help. In it are author Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers, Blink), legendary talk show host and bon vivant Dick Cavett and Amazon's "Vice President of Fulfillment...

A.V. Club // The Onion's "26th Annual Comedy Fest" took place this past week at the Athenaeum Theatre with a handful of great performances...

Comedian/podcaster/loveable grump Marc Maron hit Chicago this past weekend for a performance at the Athenaeum Theatre on June 14 as part of A...

In late-January, Chicago-bred comedian Hannibal Buress taped a new stand-up special at the Vic Theatre for Comedy Central. It's titled simply Hannibal Buress: Live From Chicago and is set to premiere on Comedy Central this Saturday (3/29) at 11PM CST...

The A.V. Club have just announced the first annual "26th Annual Comedy Fest," co-presented by their sister publication The Onion. The festival will be held from June 12-14 at the Athenaeum Theatre...

"There's a pride in what I do that other people share because I'm local, which in L.A. is meaningless; no one's local," Ramis said upon the launch of the first movie he directed after his move, the 1999 mobster-in-therapy comedy "Analyze This," another hit...

Comedian Aziz Ansari has announced a spring North American tour of large theatres (which he's certainly no stranger to). That tour begins in March, and will finish off with a performance at The Chicago Theatre on May 21...

Like last year, a host of awesome and talented people will go on a 24 hour performing spree to help benefit Letters To Santa. Be there, or be...

House seating tickets are now on sale for Our Living Room Show, a once-in-a-lifetime evening of comedy and music at Chicago's Up Comedy Club on Monday, January 6th, 2014...

Hannibal Buress @ the 2013 Eugene Mirman Comedy Fest (more by David Andrako) Chicago-bred, New York City-based comedian Hannibal Buress will be taping a new Comedy Central special at the Vic Theatre on January 25...