The comedy duo of Michael Issac and Calvin Evans are two of Chicago's Very Own, Evans from the North Side and Issac from the South Side. The friends are producing their first comedy show together, ...

The North Side has long reigned as the cradle of Chicago comedy. Stand-ups flock to Zanies or The Laugh Factory, and improvisers and sketch comics flit between The Annoyance, The Second City and iO.

CALLING ALL CHINGONAS!! Let's kick off 2026 with the first Chingona Comedy Hour of the year! Get ready to have your best year ...

Chicago -- Every Friday night for the past decade, a group of improv actors from Second City, I.O., ComedySportz and other smaller troupes have gotten together at Chicago's Annoyance Theatre to ...

The team behind Las Locas Comedy, Chicago's only monthly Latina stand-up comedy show, is back with an expanded second annual Latina Comedy Festival from Oct. 5-7, across multiple venues in Chicago.

In the pantheon of Chicago comedy, a city that has birthed legends like Bernie Mac, Robin Harris, and Sherri Shepherd, Jeremiah Frazier known better as FrayWay stands as both inheritor and innovator.

As traditional live performances have picked up over the course of the last two years following the pandemic, few artforms have thrived in quite the way stand-up comedy has. Stand-up offered Americans ...

“Being naturally gifted is something I don’t take for granted,” says Jeremiah Frazier, the Chicago comedian better known by his stage name FrayWay. “But listen, understand that there are some ...

The close relationship between the Nashville-based Outback Presents and the Chicago-based Jam Productions dates back to working on the TBS Just for Laughs festival a decade ago when the massive comedy ...