The Second City is sorry not sorry for making you laugh with the 110th Mainstage revue, Do the Right Thing, No Worries If Not. Leave your worries at the door and come laugh yourself into euphoria at the things we have in common, navigating relationships, code-switching, and even high school on TV. Life is good and the multiverse is real in this interactive experience that has everything you want in a comedy show: Stage combat! Truth bombs! Very intrusive vibe checks! Do the right thing and don’t miss this show.

Tuesdays-Thursdays at 8PM
Fridays – Saturdays at 7PM and 10PM
Sundays at 7PM

The Second City e.t.c. comes out swinging with another knock-out, interactive show! Great Altercations faces off against all the little reasons we come apart…and brings us back together with laughter, music and improv. From gas prices to podcasts, parenting to government, cryptocurrency to the Old West(-ern suburbs, that is), this show takes on the stuff we’re really at odds about and finds the commonality that comes when we let down our guards and show up as our true selves. Avoid the need for revisionist history in your future, and don’t miss this show while it’s here in the present!

Thursdays at 8PM
Fridays & Saturdays at 7PM and 10PM
Sundays at 4PM

It’s just not the holidays without hot cocoa…and hot takes! Make merry at The Second City with this original sketch, variety, and improv celebration of the season. After all, what better time to look back and laugh at 2022? Let’s toast to the best…and roast all the rest.

Starting November 26!

Thursdays – Saturdays @ 8PM
Sundays @ 7PM

From uproarious laughter to limitless libations, The Second City’s Holiday Improv Brunch is the gift that keeps on giving! Bring your band of merrymakers as we scramble together two of everyone’s favorites, comedy and brunch, for a scrumptiously seasonal breakfast with a totally improvised experience from the city’s finest. Whether you side on the Naughty or the Nice List, come enjoy mimosas...we don’t judge. Food and mimosas are available a la carte.

Sundays at noon

We guarantee yule laugh a whole latke as The Second City unwraps the most wonderful time of the year in our nut-cracking-est, jingle-bell-ing-est revue ever! Celebrate over sixty years of sketches, songs, and comedic conviviality as the next generation of comedy superstars perform our greatest holiday hits. Plus, The Second City’s famous improvisation means every show is like a snowflake: no two are alike--or are impervious to climate change.

Starting November 21!

Mondays at 8pm
Saturdays at 3pm

Let Second City deliver a dose of brilliant Black Joy to melt the icy Chicago winter! With an ensemble of rising comedy stars, When They Go Low, We Get High is bursting with brand new sketches, songs, and our world-famous improvisation, here to warm your soul and make you laugh out loud.

It’s love at first laugh with The Second City! Bring your partner, lover, significant other, spouse, friend with benefits, friend with EXTRA benefits, platonic BFF, or your spectacularly single self to The Second City Swipes Right: An Incomplete Guide to The Ultimate Date Night, the brand-new experience you've been aching for. Spend a naughty 90 hours with our caliente cast of comedians as they (consensually) annihilate everything that turns us on—and off—about love, dating, relationships, and everything else in-between the sheets!

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.

The classic ComedySportz match gets a holiday smackdown. This is ComedySportz in a ho-ho-whole new way.

This holiday we want to welcome you into our home at Piper's Alley with an all new interactive holiday show…Holiday Party!

Home for Hanukkah with Bubbe & Zayde invites you to learn about Hanukkah in the most hilarious way possible - with Bubbe & Zayde. They’ll teach you the history, how to play the dreidel and what each candle represents on the menorah, while using hilarious scenes, songs and games.

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!

It's that time of year again, the air is colder, the Starbucks drinks are out of control and Candace Cameron Bure is in full gear. It's time to get Trapped in a Holiday Musical. Welcome to Anytown, USA where everyone wears JCREW and the biggest worry is the Christmas Pageant, this year things are a little different - this year one unsuspecting townsperson will be trapped in a holiday musical. Watch as we sing and dance our way through a made up Hallmark-channel style spectacle that YOU help us create. Only playing through the end of December.

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

Talented newcomers from The Second City Training Center's improv program take the stage for a run of fantastic short form improv.