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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Stir Friday Night, Chicago&#8217;s longest running Asian-American Pacific Islander (AAPI) comedy team, is hot off the wok with 60 minutes of brand new material to keep you coming back for seconds.</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Founded in 1995, with alumni such as Steven Yeun (Walking Dead, Minari) Danny Pudi (Community) and Mary Sohn (AP Bio) Stir Friday Night is a fixture in Chicago&#8217;s comedy scene.</div>
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The Blackout Cabaret - Chicago

These non-Second City productions are original works created and produced by guest performers and ensembles. With limited runs, these performances allow for complete creative freedom and may feature artists of any experience level.

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A sketch is a short, fully scripted comedy scene. Maybe you call it a “skit” (but we never do). Chicago is the home of modern sketch comedy, and The Second City is at the center of it all.

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Stir Friday Night’s 29th Annual Fall Sketch Revue

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<p><span style="color: #191919;">Have you ever wanted to escape? The Second City presents the 112th Mainstage Revue The Devil is in the Detours, a hilarious and unhinged descent into a dimension where chaos reigns. Join our electric six-person ensemble as they sing, dance and rock the hell out in this interactive and immersive sketch and improv comedy revue.  Don’t miss out on the wildest comedy experience of your life.</span></p>


The Devil is in the Detours – The Second City Mainstage

<p>Step behind the velvet curtain into The Second City e.t.c., a lavish comedy speakeasy where the only rule for the evening is laughter. Outside, it’s winter. But here, the show is so hot and hilarious, it’ll melt away your troubles. This interactive world of illusion, decadence, and the illusion of decadence invites you to join in on a heist of hijinx sparkling with sketch, song, and improv spontaneity. The best kept secret? You are the most important part of the show. Join us and find delight. Right this way, your table’s waiting.</p>


Best Kept Secret: Tell Everyone

<p><span style="color: #191919;">Find out for yourself why The Second City has been the first name in laughter for 65 years! From the stages that launched the careers of Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Keegan-Michael Key and more comes the next generation of comedy superstars.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #191919;">The Best of The Second City features some of the best sketch comedy and songs from our comedy vaults updated for the modern era, as well as some of our newest classics and our trademark improvisation performed by The Second City Touring Company’s best and brightest…and funniest!</span></p>


The Best of the Second City: Celebrating 65 Years

<p>Brat summer is over. Now it’s time to Fall, Patriarchy! Laugh, cheer, and rise up as The Second City proudly presents, SHE THE PEOPLE – a theatrical revolution loaded with a dynamic blend satirical sketch comedy, epic original songs, and razor-sharp improv delivered by The Second City’s fearlessly funny queens of comedy.</p>
<p>She the People isn’t just a hilarious show, it empowers audiences to take a stand and make real changes. This diverse and supercharged Second City ensemble drops an electric, unapologetic, and high-key hilarious CELEBRATION of the strength, resilience, and brilliance of women everywhere. Come empowered and leave proud with SHE THE PEOPLE.</p>
<p>Yes, she can!</p>


She The People

<p><span style="color: #191919;">Grab a drink and party all night with The Second City! Get loud with an incredible ensemble of performers at a wild, spicy and entirely improvised spectacle. No two shows are the same and anything can happen on this unbridled and unscripted evening of mayhem. No pre-written scripts. No safety net. No subject off limits. You’ll be talking about this for weeks! Rated R for RIDICULOUS</span></p>


After Hours: A Late Night Improv Show

<p>The one stop shop for light hearted, side splitting comedy that everyone can enjoy. Get your tickets before they are gone! Because everyone needs a “pretty good laugh”.</p>


That Was Pretty Funny!

<p>Sleeping Giant is a solo show written and performed by local comedian and tall person Tom Rhoads. Audiences have described it as a delightful peek into the mind of a gentle giant.</p>


Sleeping Giant

<p>The Yips<br />
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A set of conditions associated with having one&#8217;s nerves badly rattled, which can affect athletic performance. Example: &#8220;I got the yips and bogeyed the rest of the holes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Proper Noun<br />
Chicago Improv duo comprised of Stephen Fauss and Brendan Gray.</p>


The Yips

<p>Intentional Dimension is a sketch revue that explores the WHAT IFs of life and liminal spaces. A liminal space refers to the place a person is in during a transitional period. It’s a gap, and can be physical (like a doorway), emotional (like a divorce) or metaphorical (like a decision). WHAT IF our sketch revue is just a liminal space?</p>


Intentional Dimension

<p>Take Two is a longform, narrative show consisting of TWO never-before-seen, made-up-on-the-spot movies! Give us a song, we’ll give you a movie! Based on a song lyric supplied by the audience, this group of movie buffs use their knowledge of cinema and genre to create two sometimes-logical 30 minute movies, making fun of the tropes found in your favorite genres: Romcoms, horror, action, holiday, and more! Take Two is a celebration of the things we love about our favorite flicks!</p>


Stir Friday Night’s 29th Annual Fall Sketch Revue

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