Day: December 19, 2013

That sound you hear whipping through Chicago this morning isn’t the usual Windy City breeze. Chicago’s comedy scene has produced some of our favorite sketch and improv comedy actors and actresses for more than 50 years — and many of today’s greatest current crop of stand-ups, too — but they won’t have Just For Laughs to showcase them next summer. Bruce Hills, Just For Laughs COO, confirmed the news on Wednesday with a statement reported in both the Chicago Tribune and the Sun-Times. “We’ve decided to take a year off to rethink the festival model, to adjust to the current...