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Be in the audience for a taping of the hilarious weekly news quiz from NPR and Chicago Public Radio, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Each week on the radio, you can test your knowledge against some of the news and entertainment world's best and brightest. Peter Sagal, Carl Kasell, and company take a fast-paced, irreverent look at the week's events. Guest panelists rotate weekly, like comedian Paula Poundstone, author Roy Blount Jr., and The Daily Show's Mo Rocca. Learn more...

Every weekend, Laugh Out Loud Theater offers fully improvised comedy shows in the style of Whose Line is it Anyway? in an intimate, cabaret setting. It's never the same show twice, as each performance combines live action, video and the audience into a unique, laugh-filled evening. Learn more...

You've seen them on The Tonight Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and Comedy Central. Now you can see them in person, live on stage. One of Chicago's most intimate comedy clubs, Zanies features stand-up performances from both rising stars and established headliners. See the "More Details" section below for information on upcoming performers. Learn more...

Lakeshore Theater hosts comedy pioneers Mort Sahl and Dick Gregory. Sahl's fearless political satire made him the first comedian to appear on the cover of Time and the first non-musician to win a Grammy Award. Gregory pioneered a brand of relentlessly honest humor that influenced comedians ranging from Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Bill Cosby. Learn more...

Jokes & Notes Comedy Club presents an evening of hilarious stand-up comedy. A great line-up of comics is scheduled to appear, including headliners from across the Midwest and beyond. Learn more...

Harold Ramis, writer/director of Groundhog Day and actor in Ghostbusters, and Aaron Freeman, co-author of The Comic Torah, discuss the "meaning of life" with a twist or two, for tonic and laughter. The sketch comedy group, The Gentlemen of Long Pork, will be the opening act. Learn more...

Comedian/actress Loni Love is a regular on E!'s Chelsea Lately. A Star Search champion, she's also appeared on The Tonight Show, Best Week Ever, Girlfriends, Girls Behaving Badly, Weekends at the D.L., Hollywood Squares and more. She headlines the Chicago Improv of Schaumburg. Learn more...

Zanies Chicago presents their Rising Star Showcase. The show features ten or more of Chicago's most promising up-and-coming stand-up comics, all showcasing their funniest material. Learn more...

Founded in 1997, Baby Wants Candy has performed completely improvised musicals to sold-out crowds from Singapore to Edinburgh. BWC has consistently wowed audiences and critics alike with some of the funniest and smartest improvisation around. Learn more...

The Annoyance presents Glitter in the Gutter, a new live musical sitcom. Pepper LaRoo and Velveeta Fitzgerald are an inseparable pair of drag queen roommates whose relationship is put to the test when one of them finds success. Learn more...

Known for his deadpan one-liners, which he often performs while accompanying himself on guitar, Nick Thune is a rising star stand-up comic. He's been seen on numerous late-night talk shows, and has had his own special on Comedy Central. Comedy Central Record recently released his debut album, Thick Noon. Learn more...

Timothy O'Toole's hosts Comedians You Should Know, a weekly stand-up show. Featuring a rotating lineup of up-and-coming young comics, plus guest stars from Chicago's top clubs and visitors from around the nation, Comedians You Should Know aims to showcase the city's rising comedy talent. Learn more...

pH Productions presents pHrenzy, their long-running original improv show. The premise is simple and fun: eight players start the show and one by one they will be voted out by a series of arbitrary rules and audience votes. At the end of the show, only one player will be left standing as the champion. Learn more...

Chemically Imbalanced Comedy presents Desperately Seeking, a new improv show. A team of talented improvisers will take a random ad from the Chicago Reader's "Matches" section, and use it as the basis for a tale of one person's life and quest for love. Learn more...

pH Production's long-running pHamily The Musical! is a one-act play built with audience suggestions. You create an entire family and influence the events during a year in their lives. The players will ask you questions, show you flashbacks, and burst into song. Learn more...

Annoyance Productions presents the strip-Improv show Skinprov, a cult hit featuring several scantily clad men. Skinprov has a rotating cast of some of the funniest guys in Chicago (who aren't afraid to take their shirts off). Learn more...

In his new solo show, Confessions of a Tramp Stamp, Ryan Heywood presents a night when everyone can revel in their foibles. We all make mistakes. Heywood just thinks they're funny. Learn more...

Coed Prison Sluts, the critically acclaimed, longest running musical in Chicago history, tells the story of the inane residents of a prison who live in fear of the arrival of a clown. Learn more...

The Annoyance presents The Best Night of Improv in Chicago -- four fantastically funny groups filled with veterans of the Annoyance, Second City, Steppenwolf and other great theaters. The show includes Fishnuts, Chicagoland, Bad Touch: Unsavory Improv and The Deep End. Learn more...

Chemically Imbalanced Comedy presents their Comedy Showcase, featuring local improv and sketch comedy groups performing on stage. Each show features three groups drawn from Chicago's legendary improv comedy scene. Learn more...

Chemically Imbalanced Comedy presents Mountain Brook High School, a coming of age, first love, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst and alienation comedy. Inspired by all of the themes of America's tortured youth, MBHS features veteran performers of stage and screen. The opening act will be Counter Productive Lover. Learn more...

The Lakeshore Theater presents comedian Robert Hines. A native of Chicago, Hines has performed on Comedy Central, NBC, and BET's Comic View, and in the hit Internet video "Jones' Big Ass Truck Rental & Storage." Learn more...

Seasoned comedy performers and real-life couple Colleen Doyle and Jason Shotts bring their unique brand of humor to Chicago's Chemically Unbalanced Theater. With more than 17 years of performance between them and two years as roommates, these two get personal in a very funny way. Learn more...

pH Productions presents pHrenzy pHucked, a completely uncensored version of its popular pHrenzy show. It's a chaotic spectacle as the audience votes on eight improvisers, until only one remains to win the title. Learn more...