Name: Improvised Sitcom
Start: 2025-12-08T01:00:00Z
Location: Judy's Beat Lounge - Chicago

Chicago

Every week, a brand-new sitcom is born — live, unscripted, and based entirely on your suggestions. Chicago’s finest improvisers bring you secret crushes, nosy neighbors, wild misunderstandings, and over-the-top schemes — all the classic sitcom chaos you love, made up on the spot. No scripts. No reruns. Just nonstop laughs!

Judy's Beat Lounge - Chicago

These non-Second City productions are original works created and produced by guest performers and ensembles. With limited runs, these performances allow for complete creative freedom and may feature artists of any experience level.

Guest Performance

Characters, scenes, and songs created on the spot by our ensemble and based on your suggestions. You never know what might happen next...and neither do they! An improv show at The Second City is a lively, interactive event featuring the best improvisers in the world.

Improv

Improvised Sitcom

About Us

Resources

Legal

Header - Default

Locations

<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-717" src="https://platform.secondcity.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/phone@3x.png" alt="" width="50" height="50" />
<h4 style="text-align: center;">NEW YORK BOX OFFICE</h4>
800-896-8120

<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-718" src="https://platform.secondcity.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/email@3x.png" alt="" width="50" height="50" />
<h4 style="text-align: center;">EMAIL US</h4>
DROP US A NOTE

<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-723" src="https://platform.secondcity.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/chat@3x.png" alt="" width="50" height="50" />
<h4 style="text-align: center;">LIVE CHAT</h4>
START A CONVERSATION

<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-724" src="https://platform.secondcity.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/gift@3x.png" alt="" width="50" height="50" />
<h4 style="text-align: center;">GIFT CARDS</h4>
<h4 style="text-align: center;">THE PERFECT PRESENT</h4>

The Second City’s 113th Mainstage Revue This Too Shall Slap is a wild sketch comedy show that spins the familiar into the absurd&#8230; and makes the absurd feel oddly familiar. Performed by a hilarious six-person ensemble who specialize in chaos, charm, and comedic whiplash, this show will keep you laughing, guessing, and possibly questioning your entire reality. Join us for a night where nothing is what it seems. Except the laughter. That’s real.  
Group of 16 or more? We’ll make it easy: <a href="https://www.secondcity.com/group-events" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Contact Us for Group Events</a>

This Too Shall Slap

Are you tired of the same-old holiday reruns? Then skip them and dash to The Second City to see our holiday hit Holidazed and Amused! What better way to send off 2025 than to roast it like chestnuts on an open fire? Festive family gatherings, office parties, classic holiday movies… nothing is off limits! The Second City proudly continues its 65 year tradition of delivering innovative, fast-paced satirical comedy with this fresh take on festive fun. Stuffed with seasonal songs, sketches, and of course, a generous helping of our world-famous improv comedy, it’s a holiday show you can actually look forward to!
Group of 16 or more? We’ll make it easy: <a href="https://www.secondcity.com/group-events" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Contact Us for Group Events</a>

Holidazed and Amused

The Second City is throwing the ultimate comedy party to celebrate 65 years of legendary laughs! The Best of The Second City: 65 Years of Funny brings together hilarious songs, unforgettable characters, and iconic sketches written for our stages by comedy greats like Tina Fey, Bill Murray, Catherine O’Hara, Keegan-Michael Key, Stephen Colbert, and so many more. Now, these classics are reimagined and brought to life by the funniest live comedy performers working today. Buckle up for a high-energy rollercoaster through six and a half decades of revolutionary satire and groundbreaking improv comedy.
Whether you’re a die-hard fan or discovering Second City for the first time, this is your chance to be part of the cutting-edge comedy tradition that’s been setting the bar for over half a century. Join us and see why The Second City is the past, present, and future of comedy.
Group of 16 or more? We’ll make it easy: <a href="https://www.secondcity.com/group-events" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Contact Us for Group Events</a>

The Best of the Second City: 65 Years of Funny

Share silliness this holiday season with Rudolph Runs Wild&#8230; a jolly extravaganza for kids, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and reindeer of all ages! Featuring a fun and festive blend of family-friendly songs and sketches from The Second City’s rich comedy archives, fresh new material written specifically for young audiences, and &#8211; of course &#8211; the ridiculous improv hijinks The Second City is world famous for. Brighten your winter with this one-of-a-kind interactive theatrical experience offering audience members, young and old, the chance to enjoy the comedy fun both from their seats and by joining The Second City performers onstage! Make hilarious holiday memories with The Second City’s Rudolph Runs Wild&#8230;
Group of 16 or more? We’ll make it easy: <a href="https://www.secondcity.com/group-events" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Contact Us for Group Events</a>

Rudolph Runs Wild

Chicago’s top comedians battle it out for laughs, glory, and sweet sweet points in an interactive game show, featuring a live studio audience (that’s you!) Performers go head to head in a series of hilarious challenges inspired by classic game shows like The Dating Game and The Price is Right, and current hits like Game Changer and Taskmaster. Wheel of Improv will leave your head spinning &#8211; with laughter!
<a href="https://linktr.ee/wheelofimprov" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Check out our Linktree</a>

Wheel of Improv

This is a drama&#8217;dey show that inspires while entertains. It features song, dance, and outstanding acting! A beautiful mockery happens that will make you laugh, ponder, cheer, and question yourself. You are guaranteed to have an amazing time!

Fighting For My Life!

A Riveting holiday sketch show featuring live and digital sketches, as well as musical accompaniment.

Now That’s What I Call Christmas

Lights, Camera, Distraction! is an hour-long sketch show that spoofs, subverts, and satirizes the silver screen moments that defined us. For film buﬀs and casual moviegoers alike, it’s a whirlwind tour through decades of cinema history that refuses to take any of it seriously.
Writer/Director Chris Kivlahan (from the viral online sketch comedy group Wet Mouth) combines his deep love of movies and deeper love of parody to bring a fast-paced hour of what-ifs, deleted scenes, and whimsical send-ups of the theater experience to Second City’s intimate Donny’s Skybox theater.
What was actually in that blue pill in The Matrix? Did they really need a bigger boat, or is it how you use it? Does every Fight Club need the same rules? Lights, Camera, Distraction! answers questions you never knew you had. Be sure to catch it in theaters before the studio dumps it on a streamer.
Presented by Lucky Girl Productions, this unmissable show stars a talented ensemble comprised of Timothy Edward, Ella Eisman, Blair Girkins, Tristan Hallam, Hugo Hentoﬀ, and Declan Parker Rhodes.

Lights, Camera, Distraction!

The Second City does sketch shows like no other, but how do we decide which sketches to include and which not to? Is it possible, nay… probable, that the director could ever be wrong when choosing to cut a sketch? When you create a sketch, it becomes your baby. And who doesn&#8217;t love to see babies fighting? Come to the de Maat Studio Theater on Thursdays in July to see the Cut Baby Battles, where Second City alum perform their sketches that were cut from different shows to see which cut baby is the best one, for the final prize of getting to tell their director &#8220;YOU WERE WRONG! &#8220;

Visiting Productions

Improvised Sitcom

Venue

Judy's Beat Lounge - Chicago

Tickets starting at $20

Next Available Showtimes

Follow us on Social

About Us

Resources

Legal

Stay In The Loop

Visiting Productions

Improvised Sitcom

Venue

Judy's Beat Lounge - Chicago

Tickets starting at .css-722v25{font-weight:var(--chakra-fontWeights-bold);}$20

Next Available Showtimes

Follow us on Social

Tickets starting at $20