704 stories by "Zach Freeman"
On top of being a killer stand-up, Kilmartin is a comedian who seems comfortable in all comedic spaces, having been a late night writer for Conan for a decade.
A full-time professional barber up until a few years back, but his comedy career took off.
At the same time that his comedy was resonating on the South Side, he was picking up paid gigs on the North Side as well.
If any working comedian has the ideal skillset to walk that fine line of finding the funny in geopolitical turmoil, it's Kondabolu.
The Chicago-based comedian and storyteller is the creator and host of the popular weekly comedy show "Blackout Diaries" which focuses on drinking stories and "hilarious misadventures" peopl…
Some of the best bits on "Black Superman" are about the trials of fatherhood.
In Chicago she'll be fine-tuning how all the material best fits together and setting her sights on splitting it all into two separate (but solid) hours.
Sarah Sherman often performs under the name Sarah Squirm, and squirm is exactly what she's known to make her audiences do.
"I'm not gonna make anybody question anything. You're gonna have some dumb fun times, that's it."
Calm has essentially been a nonstop road comic since 2019.
Denise is a petite and energetic stand-up comic perhaps best known for her recurring role as Quanisha on BET's "Games People Play."
Whether he's going big, going geeky or going weird, Higley is always looking to take his comedy to new and hilarious places.
On stage, Toomey has a unique ability to stay present in the moment, bantering with the crowd with a sly smile
"And you can go see on a Tuesday night a line-up of amazing comics that would be the headliner in another city."
Although Chicago is where he started doing comedy as an adult, this show will be the first time he's been back on a Chicago stage since performing at Thalia Hall in 2019.
One of the city's most iconic open-mike nights finds a virtual home.
Last June the comedy open mike at Cole's Bar in Logan Square"widely considered to be the bes…
Cameron Esposito looks back on her defining moments in the memoir Save Yourself.
Comedian Cameron Esposito has never shied away from talking about her personal l…
The cast shows they both have the interest and the talent to delve into the lives of these complex, confused characters and reveal the humor, horror and humanity within each of them.
"Alright, come on," comedian Hannah Gadsby said to the uproarious applause that greeted her when she walked abruptly out onto the stage of the Chicago Theatre Sunday night, eschewing an open…
There are a number of checklist items that allow a comedian to claim Chicago roots. A comic could be born here (luck), live here currently (choice), or develop their comedic voice in the clu…
It's 9:45 p.m. on a drizzly Wednesday night in early May and I'm making my way through a crowded dive bar in Logan Square. A comedy open mic " some might say the comedy open mic " started ju…
In 2016 a group of four young unknown comedians kicked off a monthly comedy show in a Puerto Rican restaurant in Humboldt Park in front of an audience of 30 people (mostly family members). L…
Comedian Tom Segura has a message for anyone offended by his jokes (or, as he put it Saturday night during the second of two sold-out shows at the Chicago Theatre, anyone who tells him, "I w…
"I thought to myself, 'Oh, wouldn't this be a great place to shoot an album?'" comedian Maria Bamford said Saturday night of the elegant new comedy space at the Den Theatre, where she'd just…
"I just kept waiting for him to talk about it," the guy next to me said after comedian Aziz Ansari's show Tuesday night at the Chicago Theatre " the first of a three-night, four-show run. "I…
