For Oak Park native Cecily Strong, her debut season as an "Saturday Night Life" ensemble member marked a "dream job" come true. After honing her ac...

In less than two weeks, TBS's annual Just For Laughs Chicago, which claims to be the largest comedy festival in America, will take over the city. T...

By the looks of a silly-yet-clever news release, someone at the Chicago Department Of Transportation is clearly having fun. Friday morning, CDOT an...

As home openers for baseball teams go, not much changes year-to-year, though there are some big differences between this year's outing and the 2011 in...

While visiting Chicago to participate in the recently-wrapped Just For Laughs festival, dozens of comedians with plenty of downtime were released into...

CHICAGO -- She may be in the comedy business, but Mary Lindsey runs her club like a drill sergeant, and the young comics spilling in and out of her do...

The April 30th Dinner Party was by far the most fun yet! Nora Dunn had everyone in stitches, Lane Alexander tap danced to Bach, and Paul Kahan, James Beard Nominee for Best Chef, prepared the food.

Late-night comic and TV host Jay Leno called Chicago "a great town for comedy" while he was here for a rare local performance benefiting an area non-p...

Ever wonder how your life might be different if you were Beyonce Knowles, multi-Grammy-winning pop diva extreme? If so, you're not alone: The Katyd...

CHICAGO — Imagine a city where winters are frigid enough for polar bears, where a baseball team is so woebegone it hasn't won the World Series s...

From Second City to IO, Chicago knows how to bring the laughs, and now it will show the rest of the world too during the Chicago Improv Festival runni...

As you prepare your liver for a weekend of celebratory alcohol consumption, consider this holiday drink "recipe" from Chicago-based comedian Paul Thom...

Plenty of funny things happen at late-night bars -- but tonight it will be intentional. Liver Failure Chicago, an open mike featuring some of Chicago'...

Not sure what to do this weekend? Allow us to decide for you. Dan Savage is in town, there is a big hip hop show in the South Loop and a crafty way to...

Lucha VaVoom will have their last sexy and violent show of the year in Chicago Thursday night. Lucha VaVoom shows infuse Mexican masked wrestlers kn...

This Thursday, Chicago's longest running and most innovative independent comedy showcase--The Lincoln Lodge--is bringing the the hilarious Fortune Fei...

So it's not officially the last weekend of summer, but it is September now, and after Labor Day, everything suddenly starts to feel a little more seri...

About a year ago, the New York Times ran a lengthy profile about an up-and-coming stand-up comic, getting a handful of big breaks in the world he desc...

Lorne Michaels of "Saturday Night Live" made several trips to Chicago this month--recruiting performers from Second City and iO theater to bring back ...

Produced by HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit "What is candy corn?," asked Christian Kaserman innocently. Kaserman, a 36-year-old actor ...

Ellen DeGeneres, who is in Chicago to tape "Ellen's Somewhat Special Special" for TBS, dropped in on NBC Chicago's news team yesterday--and gave weath...