Name: Live Sketch Comedy
Start: 2026-09-25T23:30:00Z
End: 2026-09-25T23:30:00Z
Location: Chicago Mainstage

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Join us for an evening 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’s best and brightest…and funniest!

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A sketch is a short, scripted comedy scene. Think Key and Peele or SNL. Some people might call it a "skit," but we never do. Chicago is the home of modern sketch comedy, and today, you can experience it at all Second City locations.

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Pandemonium, Please Hold

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