The Second City is ready to take on our world, one laugh at a time! Come witness comedy history in the making as our ensemble creates The Second City's 110th Revue, live and in-person. This is a thrilling, rare opportunity to watch brand-new sketches, characters, and material come to life on our historic stage. Plus, there's always plenty of our world-famous improv. It's never the same show twice, so come spend spring laughing with us!

The Second City has no time for regrets in the 45th e.t.c. revue, The Best Decision You've Ever Made. This choose-your-own comedy adventure explores the choices we make and how they impact us and everyone around us in a hilarious, heartfelt, and interactive way. Make a great decision and come experience this show, where you're an essential part of the fun! No two performances are ever the same...unless the existential rumors are true and we're all trapped on a cosmic hamster wheel.

Bottoms up in UP Comedy Club! Join The Second City for some hair of the dog comedy during this totally improvised experience from the city's finest. We're serving up all-you-can-stomach laughter! Food and mimosas are available ala carte.

Follow everybody's fave Fab Five as they help an Average Joe manifest their full potential through aggressive self-love, laugh-out-loud comedy, and more songs than you can handle, henny! Watch a live "episode" of the show we all thought we knew... until now. Written by Evan Mills and Heidi Joosten, Queer Eye: The Musical Parody features all the avocados, plenty of pompadours, and maybe even a puppet or two. Say "YASS, and" to this hilarious experience where things just keep on getting better...and funnier!

The Best of The Second City: Chicago Edition features some of the best sketch comedy and songs from our comedy vaults that are about… you guessed it, Chicago. Will there be deep dish digs? Political puns? Cubs comedy? If it’s about our very own Windy City, you can bet it’s getting roasted by The Second City Touring Company.

Love is love is love at The Second City! Come out (when you're ready) to Late Night Date Night: Pride Edition, the comedy party where everyone's welcome. Spend a sexy, raucous hour of fun and games with our LGBTQIA+ cast as they compete for your laughs...and the winner is always love.

Come see where it all began! The Best of The Second City features some of the best sketches, songs, and improvisations from our fifty-eight year history!

Baby Wants Candy, one of the most celebrated and popular comedy ensembles in the world, is thrilled to be landing for a limited engagement at Judy's Beat Lounge Theater. BWC has performed over 3000 improvised musicals all over the globe and, and has shows in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York as well as national and international touring companies.

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.

ComedySportz is back and better than ever. Come see our new live experience, complete with laughter AND clapping. ComedySportz is a show for everyone - no matter what your age, race, religion, gender, sexuality…all are welcome, and all will laugh!

Join ComedySportz Chicago on Thursday for League Night! We've assembled our Minor League and Rec League programs together in one amazing night, so you can see our best and brightest in one place! Every Thursday will kick off with one of our four Rec League teams, and then our Minor League will close the night with a hilarious ComedySportz match. It's the perfect way to kick off your weekend with some laughter, and to see our future main stage players before they make it big.

Comedy supergroup Baby Wants Candy presents "Shamilton!", the Hamilton-inspired hip hop improvised musical created in 2016 in LA and playing to sold out crowds all over the place, including the Kennedy Center in DC, a national touring company and weekly sold out shows in New York and LA.

Join the Shamilton cast as they improvise an epic musical based on a historical figure or celebrity of your choosing...including Genghis Khan, Kim Kardashian, Mr. Rogers, or even basketball playing superdog Air Bud. You decide!

Welcome to our little town. It’s a mostly ordinary town, filled with mostly ordinary people. But every so often, one of our townspeople finds themselves TRAPPED IN A MUSICAL! They never know when it’s coming, because it’s up to YOU, our audience. Every performance you’ll pick the main character, you’ll give us the plot points, the finer details, and on the spot we’ll create a 60-minute musical about this seemingly ordinary townsperson. They’ll only be as ordinary as you make them, but we guarantee you’ll laugh as we improvise songs, dances and mayhem. So welcome to our little town - stay a while.

The Lockdown Improv Jam is a fun, welcoming and encouraging improv jam for students of the Second City Community held on the first and third Friday of every month. It's founded in Second City's "Yes And, Creativity & Respect" philosophy and is led by Second City improv instructors Janet Davidson & Brie Watson. It’s a place to learn and grow while staying safe at home. All levels of experience are welcome!

This is not a joke- Chicago and Hollywood Stand-up open mics are now online!

When:
Every Tuesday • Time: 9 CST • Where: Online
Every Wednesday • Time: 8:30 CST • Where: Online

You can sign up for a CHANCE to perform using this link, stand-ups will be chosen randomly and sent the link: https://forms.office.com/r/EvfxaahcWZ

*Bring jokes
*Each comic gets 3 to 5 minutes
*Please stay for the full mic
*Zoom Link shared before the mic
*Invite your friends to watch
*Sign up sheet has full details for each night

Do you love short-form improv games? Wish you had more chances to play? Then join us EVERY WEDNESDAY for the Wham! Bam! Improv Jam! where we pull names from a bucket to come on stage and play! Think “Who’s Line Is It Anyway” but the audience gets to perform. Whether you’re new to improv or have been doing it for years, this is a great chance to connect and play with your fellow improvisers in a supportive environment.

Hosted by Arielle Zadok
Stage Manager: Heather Stewart

Join musical maestra/Second City faculty member Amanda Murphy on the second & fourth Friday of every month for a fun, supportive hour of musical improv games, scenes & songs... all without ever leaving your house. (Some prior improv experience is recommended for participants, though no musical experience is necessary.)

Register here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=cTzyvPoDoESeFAs4pifF7t5dau51oSBJlJ4sLwjhXdxUQTRXN0cyOUM0NDZTRzBBQzZHRVFIU0hSWS4u