Name: Improvised Sitcom
Start: 2025-11-24T01:00:00Z
Location: Judy's Beat Lounge - Chicago

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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.

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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.

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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.  
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Ten Dollar Comedy is a weekly comedy showcase featuring some of Chicago’s best improv, stand-up, and sketch – all for only $10.
This show is produced and hosted each week by Top Dollar Comedy, a comedy collective that features a rotating cast who have performed all over the world together. The ensemble includes: Carly Olson, Eric Muller, Eric Pedersen, Erin Goldsmith, Jonny Nelson, Peter Corey, and Deanna Ortiz.

Ten Dollar Comedy

Skip your balanced breakfast and go straight for the good stuff! 
New Nonsense brings to the stage a show highlighting its best bits, blackouts, and laugh-out-loud characters that are finally ready for primetime. This fast-paced show blends the characters of long-form sketch comedy with the quick hits of short-form blackouts and bits. The show features character callbacks across various sketches, musical performances, and improvised scenes.

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Grad Revue Show Run

Go All-In on longform improv with host team Lavalier. Six teams play for a chance to win completely worthless prizes awarded by our esteemed panel of improv judges, followed by a performance by the judges themselves. Seven teams, six weeks, two hours of hilarious improv comedy. Nothing has been scripted or prepared in advance. It will all be made up before your very eyes!

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