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Stand-Up Comedy in Chicago

Stand-Up Comedy in Chicago

Vieceli, Vince
Brady, Bill

Paperback

Series: Images of America

Entertainment & Performing ArtsGeneral DramaRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 1467111848
ISBN13: 9781467111843
Publisher: Arcadia Pub (Sc)
Published: Apr 14 2014
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.64 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
Ten years after Chicago saw its first full-time comedy club open, the landscape was decidedly different. Stand-up comedy has exploded in the last couple of years, a club owner told the Chicago Tribune in 1985, that's the only way to describe it: exploded. It was truly a comedy boom, with as many as 16 clubs operating at once, and it lasted nearly a decade before fading, taking with it some of Chicago's oldest comedy stages, including the Comedy Cottage, Comedy Womb, and Who's on First. Still, stalwarts like Barrel of Laughs (south) and Zanies (north) persevered. That part of the story is known; overlooked is the fact there was a comedy boom, period. To hear the story, it is as if stand-up comedy innately morphed from a dated nightclub scene to what one Chicago Sun-Times writer called Chicago's atomic comedy blast.

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