67 stories by "Carl Kozlowski"
Elshieky discusses the trajectory of his comedy career, from his early days podcasting in Libya to making his break on "Conan."
The quick-witted host of the podcast "Never Not Funny," Pardo brings his improvised stand-up to Zanies Rosemont for a special matinee show.
The 312 Comedy Festival is here in its third annual edition, bringing together a highly eclectic mix of top stars and rising talents in twenty-four big shows.
The comedian reaches new creative heights with his one-man show "Grandiloquent," coming to the Athenaeum Center.
"Giggle Hour" showcase at The Lincoln Lodge features poets whose goal is to entertain as well as enlighten their audience, while serving up musical artists and highly unique variety performe…
Tim Meadows is bringing his magic to the stage of The Den Theatre on May 30-31 for three shows that put him in front of his favorite audiences of all: Chicagoans. Serving up funny stories on…
By choosing an audience member to come on stage and pick a comic to have a date with, "First Date Comedy Gameshow" at the Laugh Factory takes the idea of the first date to a whole other leve…
W. Kamau Bell started out as a popular presence on the Chicago comedy scene in the mid-nineties, and his biggest love has always been for performing as a stand-up.
Stand-up comedians dread the prospect of a tough crowd in nightclubs, but Jeanie Doogan and Tom Filline face tough crowds five days a week as schoolteachers. Each turned to stand-up as a sou…
Jeff Ross has been touring the nation telling the story of how roasting has helped him deal with the loss of his grandfather, his most beloved comedian friends and his dog in the one-man sho…
Jake Johannsen has been making people laugh in clubs nationwide and countless TV appearances for the past forty years, bringing his highly offbeat and surreal take on life to subjects as far…
Cameron Esposito has spent more than a decade making a unique splash in Hollywood, not only as one of the outest and proudest LGBTQ+ comics around, but also as a successful actress on major …
For the past three years, the troupe has been making waves on the current comedy scene with its monthly variety shows that combine stand-up, improv, sketches, music, audience-interactive gam…
For the past thirty-five years, comedian Maria Bamford has been the guiding light to making hilarity out of hellishness, putting her own battles with OCD front and center in her acting and s…
Canadian comic Steph Tolev will bring her high-energy, anything-goes, raunchy and raucous performance to Zanies Comedy Night Club.
Holmes is back on the road for "The Feelin' It" tour, his first since pre-pandemic times, and is performing an entirely new hour at the Den Theatre.
The show mixes dramatic depth with plenty of laughs as Akana recounts dealing with her sister's suicide when she was seventeen and her own mental health struggles. She promises Chicago audie…
"I wanted a place to do comedy for people my own age and with the same lived experiences of being a mom, being married, trying to work and just be a human being," explains Telisman.
Masood Boomgaard had to deal with a friend who was constantly trying to motivate him with self-help books throughout the early months of the pandemic. Boomgaard found great annoyance in thei…
Edelman is bringing the full ninety-minute show back to Chicago, making the leap from a comedy club to a ten-night run of shows from February 15-25 at the internationally renowned Steppenwol…
Deanna Ortiz is one highly ambitious and in-demand comic.
For the past seven years, Chicago's funniest women have been revealing their most outrageous moments in the popular "Ladylike" showcase, which currently runs monthly at the Lincoln Lodge.
Laura Hall's returned to Chicago to assemble a troupe of actors called Phony Award Winning, who have an ambitious challenge: to learn classic Broadway musicals inside and out, and then impro…
Mike Toomey grew up loving television, and his favorite shows each year were the special Christmas episodes of sitcoms and the wide array of Christmas specials starring celebrities. But the …
"If you're not talking about something real and something substantive, the vast majority of comics are really not saying anything, because they don't have anything to say."
