Second City, Chicago
The list of Second City alumni in show business has become something of a cliche - Alan Alda, John Belushi, Bill Murray, on and on - and it's still going strong today, with recent graduates like Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, and Tina Fey.
The list of Second City alumni in show business has become something of a cliche - Alan Alda, John Belushi, Bill Murray, on and on - and it's still going strong today, with recent graduates like Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, and Tina Fey. The separate revues on the Mainstage and the e.t.c. theaters are consistently smart, timely, and funny. (The third stage, Donny's Skybox, is rented out to local sketch troupes outside the artistic direction of Second City, and is hit-or-miss.) The third act of the night is fully improvised, and if there's space left among the paying customers from the first two acts, admission is free.