Chicago Comedy
A Fairly Serious History
Published on 22. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-60949-211-3 (ISBN)
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Famous for being a city of broad shoulders, Chicago has also developed an international reputation for split sides and slapped knees. Watch the Chicago style of comedy evolve from nineteenth-century vaudeville, through the rebellious comics of the '50s and into the improvisation and sketch that ushered in a new millennium. Drawing on material both hilarious and profound, Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History touches on what makes Chicago different from other cities and how that difference produced some of the greatest minds comedy will ever know: Amos 'n' Andy, Jack Benny, Lenny Bruce, Del Close, John Belushi, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and so many, many more.
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Margaret Hicks is a professional tour guide in Chicago who has been giving walking tours in the Loop (like her tour of Old Town offered through the famous Second City Comedy Club) since she completed the Chicago Architecture Foundation's docent program in 2004. She maintains her own website at www.chicagoelevated.com and has had years of experience in the Chicago comedy scene working at improv theaters and stand-up clubs.