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'Sirens': Another Chicago TV pilot picked up
Yet another scripted series will be shooting in Chicago. On Thursday USA Network announced it has picked up the Denis Leary-produced half-hour comedy “Sirens,” about Chicago EMTs who have their act together at work but are a mess in their...Tags: USA Network (tv network), Chicago Fire (tv program), Television, Comedy Central (tv network), Lennon Parham
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'Bye Bye Liver's' Pub Theater finds new home near Wrigley Field
Seven years after launching the profitable and long-running “Bye Bye Liver: The Chicago Drinking Play,” Pub Theater has acquired its own theater space just a few blocks north of Wrigley Field at 3914 N. Clark St. The longtime home of Live...
Tags: The Second City, Arts and Culture, Bars and Clubs, Wrigley Field, Dining and Drinking
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Del Close: Dueling scripts detail improv pioneer
Charna Halpern's script about her late iO (formerly ImprovOlympic) co-founder Del Close opens with the vastly influential, hard-living, difficult, brilliant improvisation pioneer glimpsing a TV on which his former student Betty Thomas is thanking him...
Tags: Faster (movie) , Betty Thomas, LSD, Dave Thomas, Tim Meadows
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Chicago improv team behind Comedy Central pilot 'Schlub Life'
A group of Chicago sketch and improv performers are making a sitcom pilot for Comedy Central called “Schlub Life,” about “two out-of-work and out-of-shape husbands and their exasperated wives who begrudgingly provide the good life for...Tags: Television, Comedy Central (tv network), Entertainment
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'Schlub Life': Comedy Central pilot coming from locals
A group of Chicago sketch and improv performers are making a sitcom pilot for Comedy Central called “Schlub Life,” about “two out-of-work and out-of-shape husbands and their exasperated wives who begrudgingly provide the good life for...Tags: Television, Comedy Central (tv network), Entertainment
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This town needs a show like 'Second City Improv All-Stars'
![THEATER REVIEW: "The Second City Improv All-Stars" in UP Comedy Club at Second City ★★★ ... Finally, Chicago has an improv show that explains, in the style of Second City, the history of the form.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-02/68098506-14133211.jpg "THEATER REVIEW: "The Second City Improv All-Stars\" in UP Comedy Club at Second City ★★★ ... Finally, Chicago has an improv show that explains, in the style of Second City, the history of the form.")
If any one town can claim to have invented improv, it's Chicago. It's been that way since July 5, 1955, when the Compass Players opened their first show at 1152 E. 55th St. and allowed the likes of Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Valerie Harper and Alan Alda to...Tags: University of Chicago, Arts and Culture, Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Snooki appearing at Chicago-area tanning salon, Skylar Grey performing at Studio Paris, LeBron James dines at RPM Italian
The sixth season of “Jersey Shore” isn’t scheduled to begin filming until the summer and its spinoff, “The Pauly D Project,” isn’t filling the void like you had hoped, so this might be your only chance to get your...
Tags: Chad Michael Murray, Jack McBrayer, Luol Deng, John Lucas III, Kathy Griffin
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Toss up a bottle for the author of 'Cocktail'
Before it became a lucrative if critically drubbed exemplar of '80s cinematic cheese, the Tom Cruise vehicle "Cocktail" first sprang to life as a novel by Heywood Gould, who based the book on his experiences bartending throughout New York in the 1970s....
Tags: Michael Eisner, Hunting, Arts and Culture, The Descendants (movie), SoHo
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A degree in funny in the town that takes comedy seriously
You can imagine the scene in thousands of family rooms: "Mom and Dad, I want to major in comedy." Silence. "Comedy? Not on our dime, you don't." To some parents, the notion of heading to Columbia College Chicago for a full-on degree program in matters...Tags: Ethics, The Second City, Del Close, Hyde Park, Stephen Colbert
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An indie brings Nick Offerman back to the Chicago area
Whenever I find myself in a bleak mood, a quick glance at the Ron Swanson Pyramid of Greatness usually does the trick. A near-perfect melding of minds between the "Parks and Recreation" writing staff and actor Nick Offerman, this visual guide on how to...
Tags: Harrison Ford, Compliance (movie), LEGO Group, The Descendants (movie), Colleges and Universities
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What's your take: Comedians working for free at iO
There has been debate brewing the past few weeks among comedy performers in New York concerning the issue of pay. Often, stand-up comedians with a certain level of experience can score paying gigs at New York clubs. Recently, more and more stand-ups...
Tags: Amy Poehler, Del Close, Comedy Central (tv network), Arts and Culture, Economy, Business and Finance
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Second City vets making it behind scenes
Second City has been smart enough over the years to let its impressive roster of alumni speak for itself. Old photos of recognizable faces may line the lobby, but you'll never see one of the theater's shows advertised under a banner touting, "From the...
Tags: Tina Fey, Lili Taylor, Wiener Circle, Lucille Ball, Courteney Cox
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