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		<title>Review: Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2012/01/10/review-chicago-sketch-comedy-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Comedy Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Awkward Silence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Posen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emily Claiborne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exquisite Corpse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gretchen and Regina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stage 773]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Sean Miller Explosion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED If alcohol did not exist, sketch comedy would have to invent it. I arrived at this brilliant insight sitting alone at a cabaret table on a Sunday afternoon watching the charming duo of &#8220;Gretchen and Regina&#8221; deliver a set of clever, funny songs about romance and heartbreak to a roomful of Sketchfest patrons swigging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Jeff Garlin in No Sugar Tonight/Steppenwolf Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2011/07/14/review-jeff-garlin-in-no-sugar-tonightsteppenwolf-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brianhey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended Comedy Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand-Up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andy Kaufman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Garlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Seinfeld]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry David]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steppenwolf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED At some point in Jeff Garlin&#8217;s free-wheeling stand-up comedy routine, he announces, &#8220;I&#8217;m the world&#8217;s most comfortable comedian. Not the world&#8217;s funniest, which is what you want, but the most comfortable.&#8221; That&#8217;s about right. Garlin&#8217;s show is less &#8220;show&#8221; (as he makes pains to point out more than once), and more like hanging out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Absolute Best Friggin’ Time of Your Life/Second City e.t.c.</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/05/03/review-the-absolute-best-friggin%e2%80%99-time-of-your-lifesecond-city-e-t-c/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 21:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Metz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch/Revues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Comedy Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beth Melewski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Billy Bungeroth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Jennings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christina Anthony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Case]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Sohn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second City e.t.c.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Baltz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Flanigan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED If there is one reason to see Second City’s thirty-fourth revue on the e.t.c. stage, his name is Brendan Jennings, one of the newer writer-performers in the cast who makes his presence known with a good-natured mania that is impossible to ignore. Of the many talents who’ve worked on Second City’s stages in recent years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Humor: Comedy is all Greek to Second City founder Bernard Sahlins</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2010/02/15/high-humor-comedy-is-all-greek-to-second-city-founder-bernard-sahlins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[-News etc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Comedy Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aeschylus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aristophanes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Sahlins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Murray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claudia Cassidy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Aykroyd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Euripides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gilda Radner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harold Ramis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Alk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Belushi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Belushi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Candy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McCarthy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monty Python]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Rudall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Sills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Playwrights Theatre Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samuel Beckett]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sophocles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Studebaker Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victory Gardens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Dennis Polkow “If Aristophanes were alive today,” says an elderly but still twinkling Bernard Sahlins, “he would be on cable television.”  It may a seem a long way from the satirical ancient Greek playwright to the Second City some two-and-a-half millennia later, but Sahlins, a founder of Chicago&#8217;s legendary comedy troupe who is directing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Taming of the Flu/Second City Mainstage</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/07/review-taming-of-the-flusecond-city-mainstage/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2009/12/07/review-taming-of-the-flusecond-city-mainstage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Metz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improv/Sketch/Revues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended Comedy Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andy St. Clair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brad Morris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mick Napier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second City]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED If the comedy revues at Second City hew to a familiar pattern, it’s for a purpose. I don’t always agree with that purpose, but the theater just reached its fiftieth anniversary, so something’s working.  The company&#8217;s latest mainstage show may not be its strongest, but it is worth seeing for two reasons: Brad Morris [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Bill Cosby/Genesee Theatre</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/11/09/preview-bill-cosbygenesee-theatre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Seifert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended Comedy Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand-Up Previews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Cosby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genesee Theatre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED It&#8217;s mostly inaccurate to label Bill Cosby as a &#8220;stand-up comedian&#8221; anymore. First off, no way in hell is he going to be standing—the 72-year old understandably plops himself into a chair for his shows. Second, Cosby doesn&#8217;t fit the traditional mold of stand-up&#8217;s set-up/punchline structure—he&#8217;s more of a storyteller with humorous tangents and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Dave Attell/Lakeshore Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/11/02/preview-dave-attelllakeshore-theater/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2009/11/02/preview-dave-attelllakeshore-theater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Seifert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended Comedy Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand-Up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand-Up Previews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dave Attell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lakeshore Theater]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED The always-caustic Dave Attell brings his ubiquitous cigarette and smooth, soothing baritone to Lakeshore Theater, where his scathing wit and bizarrely contentious comments will take center stage. While many will remember Attell for his late-night Comedy Central series &#8220;Insomniac with Dave Attell,&#8221; which consisted of Attell roaming around the nightlife of a city, engaging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Jim Jefferies/Lakeshore Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/10/12/preview-jim-jefferieslakeshore-theater/</link>
		<comments>http://newcitystage.com/2009/10/12/preview-jim-jefferieslakeshore-theater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Seifert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended Comedy Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand-Up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand-Up Previews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Jefferies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lakeshore Theater]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Drunken, obscene and kind of a jerk, Australian comedian Jim Jefferies offers the three most enduring qualities of a successful stand-up (along the fourth-most: funny accents!). While part of his current popularity stems from a well-reported incident at a Manchester gig in which he was punched in the face by an apparently not-amused spectator, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Jeffrey Ross/Zanies</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/10/05/preview-jeffrey-rosszanies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Seifert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended Comedy Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand-Up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand-Up Previews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Ross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Friar's Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roastmaster General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zanies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Jeffrey Ross strikes me as the type of guy who wakes up at 2pm, peeks out his tour bus, mutters, &#8220;Damn, we&#8217;re in Chicago already &#8221; then goes about his usual routine: making a good living by mercilessly ripping on people. When I saw him last year at Zanies, he looked disheveled, eyes bloodshot, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: David Cross/Congress Theater</title>
		<link>http://newcitystage.com/2009/09/28/preview-david-crosscongress-theater/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Seifert</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended Comedy Shows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand-Up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stand-Up Previews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arrested Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Odenkirk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress Theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mr. Show]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Personally, I find David Cross the actor to be more consistently funny than David Cross the stand-up, who can tend to meander in vitriolic tangents with few jokes. His tenure on the now-defunct (but beloved) &#8220;Arrested Development&#8221; spurred the classic Tobias Funke character, a flamboyant actor/psychological analyst and therapist (a self-proclaimed &#8220;analrapist&#8221;) who&#8217;s oblivious [...]]]></description>
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