Robert Klein Still Can’t Stop His Leg, from SXSW to Starz, from The Second City to today
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The Second City announces 2017 recipients of its annual Bob Curry Fellowship via NBCUniversal
The Second City has announced the 2017 recipients of the 4th Annual Bob Curry Fellowship: Terrance Carey, Dan Bazaldua, Eunji Kim, Sophia Rafiqi, LeLe Mason, …
Mike Myers will portray Del Close in a movie about the legendary improv comedy coach
In an ironic twist, The Second City and its leaders are producing a biopic about the legendary late improv comedy guru, Del Close, who famously …
Episode #133: TV Land’s “Teachers,” The Katydids
Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O’Brien and Kathryn Renée Thomas met in various Chicago improvisational theaters, and with a shared name …
How America’s political divide trumps live comedy shows at the end of 2016
We’ve all heard and seen the reports coming in from theaters and comedy clubs across the country this past year. Donald Trump’s divide-and-conquer presidential campaign, …
The PBS broadcast of Bill Murray: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize
In case you missed it due to a Halloween party or the World Series or college football, there was a major comedy event on TV …
The Second City launches Harold Ramis Film School in Chicago
The Second City’s actors have left a long legacy of comedic brilliance on the big screen, and now, in 2016, the Chicago-based theater company and …
Stephen Colbert’s nostalgic week with fellow Second City alums Steve Carell and Adam McKay
This week found Stephen Colbert welcoming a star and the director of the upcoming dark comedy about Wall Street’s 2008 collapse, The Big Short. But …
Episode #26: Ali Farahnakian
Ali Farahnakian is living the American comedy dream. Born in Iran and raised in North Carolina, Ali moved to Chicago after college and fell right …
UP in smoke: Rooftop fire at Piper’s Alley complex in Chicago home to The Second City
When there’s smoke, there’s often fire. And when that fire happens in the Piper’s Alley complex in Old Town Chicago that’s home to The Second …