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The Second City&#8217;s 114th Mainstage Revue Pandemonium, Please Hold is a loud, fast, and gloriously unhinged night of comedic mayhem. The Second City’s six-person cast cranks the amps and stage dives headfirst into the chaos with blistering sketch comedy, unpredictable improv, explosive live music, and absolutely zero chill. Cathartic and wildly funny, brace for pandemonium and join us for a night of full-volume hilarity. Come scream into the abyss with us.

Pandemonium, Please Hold

The news is nonstop. Your group chat is unhinged. Life feels messy… Escape with The Second City’s World’s Gone Wild, a fast and fearless comedy show that finds funny in the frenzy. Outrageous characters, hilarious show-stopping musical numbers, and unpredictable improv comedy come together for a laugh-out-loud, anything-can-happen night of comedy mayhem. Smart. Ridiculous. Now. Pull up to The Second City and catch the chaos in real time.
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World’s Gone Wild: Mainstage 91st Revue

After getting a single suggestion, the cast of six professional comedians asks the audience to choose a detective. Enjoy as they invent a tale of crime, secrets, and scandals right before your eyes. The performers will keep track of facts, follow leads, and conclude who is the murderer, all while you take in a comedy experience unlike any you’ve seen before. During the show, they’ll employ the tropes, character archetypes, and influences of Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Nick and Nora Charles, Encyclopedia Brown, and just a dash of Scooby-Doo.

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Baby Wants Candy is a completely improvised, full band musical! Having performed over 3,000 improvised musicals to thousands of fans from Chicago to New York to Singapore to Scotland, this group not only performs in Chicago, New York, and LA but also tours internationally, including multiple sold-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival!
BWC cast &#038; alumni include Aidy Bryant (Saturday Night Live), Jack McBrayer (30 Rock), Peter Gwinn (Colbert Report), Thomas Middleditch (HBO&#8217;s Silicon Valley), Lauren Conlan Adams (Kimmy Schmidt), Jessica McKenna (Party Over Here), Nicole Parker (Elephaba in Wickedon Broadway) and many more. Hailed as &#8220;Critic&#8217;s Pick&#8221; from the New York Times and &#8220;Best Improv Ensemble&#8221; from the Chicago Magazine, this is one improv show you don&#8217;t want to miss!

Baby Wants Candy, the Completely Improvised Full-Band Musical!

Chill AF Presents the best comedians Chicago has to offer, plus special drop-ins from prominent name comedians you’ve seen on SNL, Comedy Central, and Netflix

Chill AF Presents

The Second City’s Improv Supernova blasts open e.t.c.’s 50th Revue with the art form that started it all. No two performances are ever the same – every night is different, delightfully chaotic, and always funny. Improv this good turns an ordinary night into an unforgettable one. Don&#8217;t miss out.
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The Second City’s Improv Supernova: e.t.c. 50th Revue

Find out for yourself why The Second City has been the first name in laughter for over sixty years! From the stages that launched the careers of Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell and more comes the next generation of comedy superstars.
The Best of The Second City features some of the best sketch comedy and songs from our comedy vaults updated for the modern era, as well as some of our newest classics and our trademark improvisation performed by The Second City Touring Company’s best and brightest…and funniest!
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Best of The Second City

Created in 2024 by comedians Hilary Henderson and Michelle Forrester, Pink Chicken features an all-female lineup of standup comedians and a one-of-a-kind interactive audience segment.
Our interactive crowd segment invites audience members to share their boldest takes on the issues plaguing our modern world (from dating to mother wounds; no two shows are the same!) Topics usually revolve around mental health, self care, work, family, dating, relationships, and anything else pertaining to the female experience.
Through the shared experience of laughter, Pink Chicken curates an inclusive environment where no submission is too dark, embarrassing, or weird. Pink Chicken is the IRL community replicated from your funniest text exchanges.
Fresh off the heels of a successful run at Edmonton Fringe Festival, Hilary and Michelle bring their silliest, most unapologetic group chat energy to every stage they possibly can!
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ABOUT YOUR HOSTS 
Hilary&#8217;s original comedic content has racked up over millions of views and has been featured in Narcity Canada, Yahoo Lifestyle, and girlie&#8217;s group chats across the world! She has performed standup across Canada and has opened for acts featured on Comedy Central, Jimmy Fallon, Just for Laughs, and CBC Comedy.
Michelle is a Canadian comic and writer born in Montreal. In 2023, she moved to Toronto to complete an MFA in Screenwriting at Toronto Metropolitan University where she co-created The Writers Room Sketch Show &#8211; a project that went on to win first place at the JFL Stand-Up and Pitch Contest. And In 2023, she was also named a New Face of Comedy by Just For Laughs. In 2022, she recorded on the JFL Originals album &#8220;Heavy Petting Zoo.&#8221; She will definitely beat you at a hot dog eating contest.

Pink Chicken

The Best of The Second City: Chicago-Style is a fast-paced sketch and improv comedy revue from The Second City featuring classic scenes from its legendary archives alongside fresh material from today’s ensemble. Blending sharp satire, iconic characters, and spontaneous audience-driven improv, it delivers a high-energy night of quintessential Chicago comedy.
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The Best of The Second City: Chicago Style

Kids, are you tired of grown-ups constantly telling you what to do? When to wake up, when to do homework, even making you do chores?! Well, on Saturdays at the Second City, it’s the kids’ turn to run the world! In this high-energy and fast-paced sketch and improv show, kids give all the ideas and even get the chance to get onstage! *Grown-ups are absolutely allowed because kids can’t drive or pay for tickets (the Tooth Fairy has not kept up with the pace of inflation.)
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No Grown-Ups Allowed

From the minds of Wheel of Improv, comes Gayme Night, where Chicago’s funniest and gayest comedians battle it out for laughs, glory, and the right to be officially the funniest friend in the gaggle, in an interactive improvised game show. Performers go head to head in a series of hilarious challenges inspired by game shows like Snatch Game, Game Changer, or the Price is Right. Gayme Night will leave your head spinning – with laughter! and more importantly niche gay pop culture references!

Gayme Night

New Week! New Show! After a successful show run to start the year, the New Year New Show team is back by popular demand. Every week is a brand new sketch show, motivated by audiences suggestions from the week before. So yes, basically like a certain late-night New York show. This talented cast whips up new material weekly for audiences to come roaring back to. Maybe there will be musical numbers, or audience involvement, or anything in between. Who knows?! We certainly don&#8217;t! New Week, New Show includes award-winning comedians, dedicated performers, and talented comedians. So come on down to see history made where every evening is opening and closing night at the same time.

New Week New Show

Straight host, who is an ally, featuring 3 LGBQT comics. 10% of proceeds will go to The Howard Brown Center

Straight With Plenty of Pride

Millennials take on Generation X in a battle to see which generation is funnier. The audience votes at the end of the show. Featuring some of the best comics in Chicago, Hosted by Todd Glover

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