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Music, Concert Preview Dec 5, 2019
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The 1975 infuse their ambitious, anxiety-riddled songs with hope
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Concert Preview, The 1975, Matt Healy, Love It If We Made It, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, Notes on a Conditional Form, Greta Thunberg, Frail State of Mind, Stephen Colbert, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 2, 2018
Video
The Utah House’s rap parody is just as bad as the time Mike Madigan ‘rapped’ in a Republican attack ad

The Utah House of Representatives' parody rap recalls last year's terrible Republican attack ad, in which Illinois house speaker Mike Madigan "rapped."
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: News, Politics, This Will Kill You, Mike Madigan, Utah House of Representatives, Bruce Rauner, rap, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Stephen Colbert, Video

Arts & Culture, Comedy Jan 17, 2018
Pete Holmes on navigating pop culture post-Weinstein

“I’m interested in the conversation about if we’re allowed to laugh at people who’ve made mistakes,” the creator and star of HBO’s Crashing says.
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Comedy, Pete Holmes, Crashing, HBO, Judd Apatow, Beth Stelling, Emily Gordon, Jamie Lee, Stephen Colbert, Conan O'Brien, Artie Lange, Lyons Den, Sarah Silverman, T.J. Miller, Dave Chappelle, Rachael Ray, Bill Hicks

Blogs, Bleader Dec 13, 2017
Video
Rahm Emanuel to Stephen Colbert: Chicago is a 'Trump-free zone,' and other news

Also, Janice Jackson's rise from CPS student to CPS CEO.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Rahm Emanuel, Donald Trump, Stephen Colbert, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Janice Jackson, Apple, Tim Cook, Chicago Public Schools, coding, Forrest Claypool, Joe Biden, Leslie Odom Jr., Bruce Rauner, Elske, Anna Posey, David Posey, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 8, 2017
Video
Chicago Public Schools inspector general: Forrest Claypool ‘repeatedly lied,’ and other news

Also, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is to appear on The Late Show Monday for the first time since 2013.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Forrest Claypool, Chicago Public Schools, Rahm Emanuel, Bruce Rauner, J.B. Pritzker, Election 2018, Chicago Fire Department, Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago architecture, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Stephen Colbert, RL Restaurant, True Food Kitchen, Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab, Girl & the Goat, Oriole, RPM Italian/RPM Steak, Riccardo Enoteca, Bavette's Bar & Boeuf, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 24, 2017
Thanksgiving weekend in Chicago: Best things to do

Rising hip-hop artist G Herbo, Late Show writer and humorist author Daniel Kibblesmith, a discussion about the best books of 2017, and more goings-on November 24-26
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, daniel kibblesmith, stephen colbert, santa, challenger comics, conversation, gremlins, dave kehr. e.t., pbr movie night, boiler room, annoyance christmas pageant, charlie brown, rudolph, all funkd' up, savion glover, g herbo, liz taylor, charles finch, Tanya Aguiñiga

Blogs, Bleader Oct 16, 2017
The Daily Show live, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

The Amazing Acro-Cats, architect Kaneji Domoto, the Joffrey’s Giselle, and more goings-on about town from October 16-19
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, the daily show, athenaeum, joffrey ballet, giselle, auditorium theatre, Madeleine O'dea, columbia college library, lit & Luz festival, mexico city, steve carell, nancy carell, stephen colbert, jordan klepper, Kaneji Domoto, acro cats, vittum theater, vic mensa

Arts & Culture, Comedy Mar 17, 2017
Video
How Scott Adsit went from patio serenades to 30 Rock

The comedian headlines the Chicago Improv Festival, where he’ll be awarded for his achievements in the art.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Comedy, Scott Adsit, Chicago Improv Festival, 30 Rock, Mr. Show With Bob and David, Veep, Big Hero 6, Messing with a Friend, Susan Messing, Mama's Boys, improv, Skull Juice, Sometimes Live, Dino Stamatopoulos, Tina Fey, Glenbrook North High School, David Pasquesi, Stephen Colbert, Robert Smigel, Michael Stoyanov, Bob Dassie, Stephnie Weir, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 19, 2016
Every CPD patrol officer will have a body cam by 2018, and other Chicago news

Also, Stephen Colbert sold hot dogs at Wrigley Field this weekend.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago Police Department, police body cameras, gun violence, Derrick Rose, Chicago State University, Stephen Colbert, Chicago Cubs, Joe Maddon

Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2016
Overtime cost the Chicago Police Department more than $116 million in 2015, and other news

Also, test your constitutional law knowledge with one of Professor Barack Obama’s final exams.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, spring weather, Chicago Police Department, gun violence, Anthony Beale, Chicago crime, winter weather, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Law School, Barack Obama, Stephen Colbert, Nick Offerman, Second City, Minooka, weddings

Blogs, Bleader Oct 27, 2015
Video
Chance the Rapper rolls out his new song, 'Angels,' in a big way

The Chicago rapper brought his band and a few friends to the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to debut "Angels."
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Chance the Rapper, Angels, Saba, the Social Experiment, Surf, Donnie Trumpet, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Stephen Colbert, All My Friends, Tinashe, Snakehips, iTunes, Ed Sullivan Theatre, WGCI, Power 92, DJ Oreo, Dlow, bop, Video

Arts & Culture, Feature Sep 3, 2015
Slideshow Video
How Chicago shaped Stephen Colbert

The Late Show host long ago left the city where he found his comedic voice. But Chicago has never left him.
- By Mike Thomas
- Tags: Feature, Comedy, Stephen Colbert, Second City, Paul Dinello, Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Steve Carell, Paul Dinello, Northwestern, David Letterman, ImprovOlympic, Io, Chris Farley, Mick Napier, Slideshow, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Aug 13, 2014
iO makes a big move into founder Charna Halpern's 'dream theater'

The legendary improv comedy company leaves behind two decades of history as it enters a shiny, cavernous space in Lincoln Park.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, iO Theater, iO, Charna Halpern, Stacey Smith, Del-Tones, improv, Lincoln Park, Jimmy Carrane, Wrigleyville, ImprovOlympic, IOC, International Olympic Committee, bathrooms, theaters, ComedySportz, Del Close, short-form improv, long-form improv, Harold style, Swedish American Club, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler, The Daily Show, Conan O'Brien, SNL, Armando Diaz, Dave Koechner, Adam McKay, Jason Chin, redevlopment, Chicago Cubs, Ricketts family, Peter Gwinn, writers, comedy, The Colbert Report, Noah Gregoropoulos, improvisers, Chris Farley, TJ Jagodowski, Dave Pasquesi, Cecily Strong, Jordan Klepper, Eric Stonestreet, Scott Adsit, Jack McBrayer, George Wendt, Second City, bars

Arts & Culture, Comedy Critic's Choice Jul 21, 2014
Recommended
No people will be punchlines in "Racist Jokes 101" (OK, maybe white people)

Curated by Fred Sasaki and Seth Vanek, the entertainingly educational Homeroom series invites a pair of comics and a famed hashtagger to comment on (and ridicule) race and racism.
- By Molly Adams
- Tags: Comedy Critic's Choice, Homeroom presents "Racist Jokes 101: #OwnYourWords", Museum of Contemporary Art, Fred Sasaki, Seth Vanek, Wu-Tang Clan, Rebecca O'Neal, Tim Barnes, Suey Park, #CancelColbert, Nick Twemlow, Comedy Exposition, Stephen Colbert, Chicago Public Media, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2014
The Annoyance Theatre settles into its new home

The comedy theater reopens at its Lakeview location.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Comedy, Annoyance Theater, Mick Napier, Jennifer Estlin, Kickstarter, Amy Sedaris, Jeff Garlin, Jane Lynch, Stephen Colbert, open house, Invisible World, Co-Ed Prison Sluts, The Real Live Brady Bunch, President Bush is a Great Man

Blogs, Bleader Apr 29, 2014
John Oliver does it behind a desk

But he's still at his best away from it.
- By Gwynedd Stuart
- Tags: Arts, Television, Small Screen, john Oliver, last week tonight, the daily show, jon stewart, stephen colbert, hbo, comedy central

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Nov 13, 2013
Recommended
Wild Chicago corralled onto DVD

The first two seasons of the old WTTW show offer an evocative glimpse of the city in the 80s.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Wild Chicago, WTTW, The Golden Age of Wild Chicago, Ben Hollis, John Davies, Moo & Oink meats, South Shore, Fisherman's Dude Ranch, Des Plaines, Margie's Candies, Wicker Park, Tattoo Factory, Uptown, Al Mansour Video, West Ridge, Snackville Junction, Evergreen Park, Marquette Park, Clark and Belmont, Elston Avenue, Joe Kosala, Wicker Park, Mr. Rogers, Maxworks Cooperative, Little Italy, Stephen Colbert, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Oct 25, 2013
A new definition for factose intolerant is hard to swallow

Just the factose, ma'am
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Books, Grammar, Arts, Humor, News, Liesl Schillinger, Wordbirds, Urban Dictionary, Wikiality, Stephen Colbert, truthiness, factose intolerance

Blogs, Bleader Mar 22, 2012
Video
Class dismissed: Columbia College film prof Dan Dinello retires

Columbia College professor Dan Dinello marks his retirement with a retrospective of his independent films
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Comedy, Columbia College, Dan Dinello, Shock Asylum, Chicago Short Comedy Video and Film Festival, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Dan Dinello RetireSpective: 33 Years in 45 Minutes, Wheels of Fury, Rock Lobster, Chicago Halloween, Pink Triangles Rising, Afrobeat, Fela Kuti, Comedy Central, Strangers With Candy, Amy Sedaris, Kenneth Anger, Scorpio Rising, Richard Nixon, Bryan Dinello, The Colbert Report, Barack Obama, How to Be Popular, Army Arrangement, Chicago filmmakers, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 14, 2011
Stephen Colbert was always a 'brilliant' comic
- By Alex Parker
- Tags: Morning Newsfeed, Chicago Department of Transportation, Chicago Transit Authority, CTA, Gabe Klein, Wrigley Field, Stephen Colbert, Northwestern University, Tammy Duckworth, Michele Bachmann

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love May 26, 2011
Savage Love: Dan to Canadian politician: Blow me. Really.

Plus: She feels betrayed when her husband is searching for a three way after her miscarriage, and this time a woman is the MF
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Dan Savage, three-way, miscarriage, bi-sexual, cheating, boyfriend, gay, choicer, John Cummins, Tony Perkins, Rick Santorum, Stephen Colbert, British Columbia Human Rights Act

News & Politics, Feature Feb 25, 2010
Video
Human Care Bears

Rahm Emanuel's "retarded" outburst made good headlines, but the way some advocates portray the mentally disabled is far more offensive.
- By David Wilcox
- Tags: Feature, retarded, retard, Rahm Emanuel, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Stephen Colbert, "fucking retarded", Association for Retarded Citizens, ARC, the Arc, Down Syndrome, Tank McNamara, Sarah Silverman, Andrea Fay Friedman, Family Guy, Trig Palin, John C. McGinley, Huffington Post, National Down Syndrome Society, N*ggers, K*kes, F*ggots, C*nts, W*ps, and the R-word, Care Bears, Tropic Thunder, Simple Jack, Robert Downey Jr., The Other Sister, Riding the Bus With My Sister, Life Goes On, Corky Thatcher, Chris Burke, Erma Bombeck, "The Special Mother", microcephalic, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 17, 2009
Second City's 50th Anniversary Celebration

A report on Second City's weekend of anniversary festivities.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Comedy, Arts, Second City, Paul Sills, Howard Alk, Barbara Harris, Alan Arkin, Jim Belushi, John Belushi, Paul Sand, Bernie Sahlins, Shelley Berman, David Steinberg, Jim Belushi, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Dec 10, 2009
The Second City's 50th Anniversary Weekend

December 11-13
- By Sam Adams
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, The Second City, SCTV, Harold Ramis, Sheldon Patinkin, Horatio Sanz, Jeff Garlin, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Mina Kolb, Alan Arkin, Paul Sands, Bernie Sahlins, Martin Short, The Second City Alumni: One Night Only, Second City, Second City E.T.C.

Blogs, Bleader Dec 2, 2009
Chicago Best Sellers for Week Ending November 29

What's hot in local bookstores
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, The Help, Kathryn Stockett, The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver, Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore, Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger, Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, SuperFreakonomics, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Going Rogue, Sarah Palin, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson, Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, Precious, Sapphire, Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery, Open, Andre Agassi, The Case for God, Karen Armstrong, You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas, Augusten Burroughs, The Piano Teacher, Janice Y.K. Lee, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Michael Lewis, Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, Julie Powell, I Am America (And So Can You!), Stephen Colbert, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, Apostolos Doxiadis, The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell

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