ComedySportz Chicago March Madess
For the start of March Madness, Jon Hansen pit Chicagoans against each other in a fierce improv battle for glory with the ComedySportz Chicago folks.
To join in the fun, be sure to check out CSz Theater Chicago at 929 W. Belmont Ave. You can go to cszchicago.com for ticket info and for show schedules.
History of The Second City and the Revolution of the Theatrical Scene
This is the documentary I made for the 2012 Chicago Metro History Fair. This documentary has made it to the state finals round in Springfield, Illinois. Thanks to all those who helped! It was a lot of work but very fun to put together!
State - The Second City Comedy Studies Program
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Written by Jon O'Grady
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Starring Jon O'Grady, Sam Bowers, and Kat Lucid
Recorded at The Second City etc for the Comedy Studies Program in Chicago IL, May 2015
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The Improvised Sondheim Project - IF Cincy 2016
The Improvised Sondheim Project (Chicago, IL) - The Improvised Sondheim Project now in its fifth year, creates completely improvised musicals in the style of, and in homage to, the great Stephen Sondheim. ISP began its process when five music faculty members at The Second City Training Center in Chicago began researching Sondheim’s work out of a love of his musicals. Now grown to an ensemble of 15, Improvised Sondheim Project completed its first planned season of re-improvised Sondheim shows in the spring of 2016. Made up of former and current performers from The Second City TourCo, Boat Co, and Theatricals, from ComedySportz Chicago, Baby Wants Candy, and regular sellouts at the New York Music Improv Festival, Improvised Sondheim Project creates a funny and engaging show that is musically stellar, lyrically stunning, and a ton of fun!
Recorded at the Know Theatre of Cincinnati on Saturday, September 10th, 2016. Day Five of the 3rd Annual Improv Festival of Cincinnati (IF Cincy).
Kris Konrad on Drugs at Abbey, Chicago
VIOLET Preview
Check out Pius XI Catholic High School's production of VIOLET in our Black Box Theater, November 10-13, 2016!
A Coliquim on Your Future
Brian Wohl gives tips on how to be a successful actor in Chicago, but Keith interrupts by masturbating.
Stand Up & Knock Out
Chicagoland's Only Stand Up and Comedy Hypnosis Show
Appearing at The Laugh Factory in Chicago July 31st @ 8pm
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Sex Is Like - A Cell Phone, an Onion and a Lawn Mower?
The ladies of MRS Degree compare sex to whatever the audience prescribes.
Mrs Degree improv opened Fracas! V, a national collegiate improv festival, created and hosted by Second Nature Improv at USC. Attended by hundreds of college students, the three day festival features performances from college troupes around the country, panel discussions with the nation's top comedians, and specialized workshops with LA's most talented improvisers.
Fracas! was sponsored by the Onion and had panel discussions featuring cast members from The Office, MADtv and Thank God You're Here, as well as top performers from The Upright Citizen's Brigade, The Groundlings, Improv Olympic, The Second City, and ComedySportz.
Performances
At the Fracas! Tent in McCarthy Quad
MRS Degree (USC - Los Angeles, CA)
Foosh (UCSD - San Diego, CA)
Knights of Comedy (Chapman University - Irvine, CA)
The 8th Floor Improv (Ohio State - Columbus, OH)
Improvability (UCSB - Santa Barbara, CA)
Occam's Razor (University of Chicago - Chicago, IL)
At the Ground Zero Performance Cafe
Vertigo-go (Swarthmore College - Swarthmore, PA)
Comedy Corner (University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ)
Smile and Nod (Cal Poly SLO - San Luis Obispo, CA)
jericho! (UC Berkeley - Berkeley, CA)
The Noise Next Door (University of Kent - London, U.K.)
Commedus Interruptus (USC - Los Angeles, CA)
Vidushak (USC - Los Angeles, CA)
Barren Mind (ASU - Tempe, AZ)Buttprov (UCSC - Santa Cruz, CA) The Charles Darwin Experience (University of Arizona - Tucson, AZ)
Birdstrike Theatre (UC Davis - Davis, CA)
Second Nature (USC - Los Angeles, CA)
Open Improv Jam!
PANELS
Women in Improv
With: Heather Anne Campbell (Boom Chicago, The Armando), Stephanie Courtney (The Groundlings, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Mad Men), Natasha Leggero (Reno 911!), Jessica Makinson (Halfway Home, Trigger Happy TV), Danielle Schneider (ASSSSCAT,Dead Heiresses), Stephnie Weir (iO, MADtv).
Forming and Sustaining a Cohesive Group
With: Alex Berg, Todd Fasen, and Alex Fernie of Convoy, and Sean Conroy and Billy Merritt of The SWARM.
Improv in the Entertainment Industry
With: Tim Bagley (The Groundlings, Monk, Walk Hard), Brian Huskey (Free Radio, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Superbad), Nicole Randall Johnson (MADtv, Andy Barker P.I., The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Jerry Minor (Carpoolers, SNL, Mr. Show), Kaitlin Olson (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Riches). Todd Stashwick (The Riches, Burn Manhattan).
Creating an Original Improvised Show
With: Chad Carter (Creature Comforts, Human Giant) of the UCB's MySpace Show, Ed Helms (The Daily Show, The Office), and Seth Morris (Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Marijuanalogues) of Seth and Ed's Puppet Talk Show.
PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS
Improvised Plays - with Billy Merritt
Adding Information and Heightening - with Jim Woods
Finding the Game - with Sean Conroy
Introduction to Game - with Drew DiFonzo Marks
Friday, April 18 - 4pm-5:50pm
Adding Information and Heightening - with Jim Woods
Shakespearean Improv - with Matt Gourley
Improv for Film, TV, and Commercials - with Brian Palermo
Theatre & TV Genres - with Andy Goldblatt
Playing it Real / Playing with Integrity - with Will McGlaughlin
Group Support and Ensemble Building - with Drew DiFonzo Marks
Scenes from Monologues - with Chad Carter
Character - with Drew Droege
Art of Control - DI team Performance at Comedy City March 2014
This is our DI ( Destination Imagination) team performing at Comedy City. This was after we took 2nd place at Green Bay Area Regional Tournament. Since then we have officially scripted the prologue and we have written our own parody for the song Mary Poppins sings.We recently have taken 3rd at Wisconsin State Tournament and we are going to Global's in May.
Improv Performance @UCSD; Foosh vs. SDSU
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2/3/12
Keith and Tinz - Father at 14 music video - Octavarius
From Keith and Tinz's album Vanilla Points
This video stars members of the Habersberger family, Thanks to David, Sarah, Alex, and Keith Habersberger.
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The Cities | Axis Hotel | Quad City Storm
The Cities with Jim Mertens – Guests: Mike and Kim Whalen, founders of Heart of America, about the opening of their new property, the Axis Hotel in downtown Moline, how travel is changing and their commitment to the Quad Cities. Also, Gwen Tombergs discusses the new season of the Quad City Storm hockey team and all of their upcoming special events.
Northwestern University | Wikipedia audio article
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Northwestern University
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Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, United States, with other campuses located in Chicago and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs and facilities in Miami, Florida; Washington, D.C.; and San Francisco, California. Along with its selective undergraduate programs, Northwestern is known for its Kellogg School of Management, Pritzker School of Law, Feinberg School of Medicine, Bienen School of Music, and Medill School of Journalism.
Northwestern is a large research university with a comprehensive doctoral program, attracting over $650 million in sponsored research each year. Northwestern has the ninth-largest university endowment in the United States, currently valued at $10.456 billion.The University's former and present faculty and alumni include 19 Nobel Prize laureates, 38 Pulitzer Prize winners, 6 MacArthur Genius Fellows, 16 Rhodes Scholars, 65 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and two Supreme Court Justices. In addition, Northwestern ranks 8th among U.S. universities that have produced billionaires. Northwestern's School of Communication is a leading producer of Academy Award, Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning actors, actresses, playwrights, writers and directors.Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans, for whom the city of Evanston is named, and eight other lawyers, businessmen and Methodist leaders. Its founding purpose was to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that today includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Instruction began in 1855 and women were admitted in 1869. Today, the main campus is a 240-acre (97 ha) parcel in Evanston, along the shores of Lake Michigan 12 miles north of downtown Chicago. The university's law, medical, and professional schools are located on a 25-acre (10 ha) campus in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood. In 2008, the university opened a campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar with programs in journalism and communication. In 2016, Northwestern opened its San Francisco space at 44 Montgomery St., which hosts journalism, engineering, and marketing programs.The University is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and remains the only private university in the conference. The Northwestern Wildcats compete in 19 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA's Division I Big Ten Conference.
In Living Color reunion, The Simpsons coming to Tribeca Film Festival
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The Tribeca Film Festival has added 16 television projects to its 2019 lineup. In addition to eight series premieres, two season premieres, one feature documentary, five indie pilots, the Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal-founded festival will reunite the cast and creators of sketch comedy show In Living Color — including Keenan Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Kim Wayans, Tommy Davidson, David Alan Grier and Rosie Perez — 25 years after its finale, while the long-running animated series The Simpsons will also celebrate its 30th anniversary with a special presentation of two episodes, followed by a Yeardley Smith-moderated panel discussion between James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Matt Selman, Al Jean, and Harry Shearer. Two other shows joining the festival are Mr. Robot and Younger. Ahead of Mr. Robot‘s fourth and final season, series actors Rami Malek, Christian Slater, and Carly Chaikin will sit down with creator Sam Esmail for a retrospective on the USA Network program. Younger creator Darren Star and cast members Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, Debi Mazar, Miriam Shor, Nico Tortorella, Peter Hermann, Molly Bernard, and Charles Michael Davis will also assemble for a live conversation following the world premiere screening of the first episode of the Paramount Network series’ sixth season. Also among the Tribeca TV slate are world premieres of Amazon Prime’s dark superhero project The Boys, which is executive-produced by Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen, and Evan Goldberg; Netflix’s animated series Tuca & Bertie, voiced by Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong; On Tour with Asperger’s Are Us, an HBO-distributed docuseries from Mark and Jay Duplass; Nat Geo’s The Hot Zone starring Julianna Margulies in a true story about the origins of the Ebola virus; and HBO’s Chernobyl, a chronicle of the 1986 nuclear accident in the titular region starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, and Emily Watson. On the movie side, the Margot Robbie-produced historical drama Dreamland — which stars the actress as bank robber Allison Wells — is also set to premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival alongside Danny Boyle’s Beatles-themed dramedy Yesterday, Zac Efron’s Ted Bundy biopic Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, Downsizing star Hong Chau’s speculative drama based on the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst in 1974, Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams’ The Apollo theater documentary, Christoph Waltz’s directorial feature debut Georgetown (starring Annette Bening and Vanessa Redgrave), and RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars 3 champion Trixie Mattel‘s Moving Parts, a documentary about her rise to prominence on the folk music scene. Film-based panels and special presentations set for Tribeca’s upcoming edition include a never-before-seen, restored version of Francis Ford Coppola’s classic Vietnam War-set film Apocalypse Now in 4K Ultra HD as well as cast and crew reunions for Cameron Crowe’s 1989 coming-of-age romance Say Anything…, Rob Reiner’s directorial debut Thi
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Boise, Idaho | Wikipedia audio article
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Boise, Idaho
00:00:51 1 History
00:01:00 1.1 Etymology
00:03:46 1.1.1 Pronunciation
00:04:09 2 Geography
00:05:38 2.1 Parts of the city
00:06:31 2.1.1 Downtown Boise
00:07:47 2.1.2 Boise State University
00:08:37 2.1.3 The North End
00:09:19 2.1.4 Boise Highlands
00:09:45 2.1.5 Southwest Boise
00:10:22 2.1.6 Northwest Boise
00:11:05 2.1.7 Warm Springs and East End
00:11:40 2.1.8 East Boise and Harris Ranch
00:12:12 2.1.9 Southeast Boise
00:13:36 2.1.10 Boise Bench
00:14:28 2.1.11 West Boise
00:15:02 2.2 Cityscape
00:15:10 2.3 Climate
00:17:18 3 Demographics
00:17:27 3.1 2010 census
00:19:33 4 Economy
00:21:24 4.1 Top employers
00:21:38 5 Culture
00:28:04 5.1 Major attractions
00:31:51 6 Professional sports
00:32:01 7 Crime
00:32:36 8 Education
00:34:05 9 Media
00:34:54 10 Transportation
00:36:51 11 Notable people
00:40:47 12 Photo gallery
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Boise ( (listen)) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho, and is the county seat of Ada County. Located on the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, the population of Boise at the 2010 Census was 205,671, the 99th largest in the United States. Its estimated population in 2016 was 223,154.
The Boise-Nampa metropolitan area, also known as the Treasure Valley, includes five counties with a combined population of 709,845, the most populous metropolitan area in Idaho. It contains the state's three largest cities; Boise, Nampa, and Meridian. Boise is the 80th most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States.
Milwaukee | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:25 1 History
00:02:35 1.1 Name
00:03:17 1.2 Native American Milwaukee
00:05:36 1.3 Milwaukee since European settlement
00:20:43 1.4 Historic neighborhoods
00:24:05 2 Geography
00:25:48 2.1 Cityscape
00:27:56 2.2 Climate
00:31:56 2.3 Water
00:33:14 3 Demographics
00:34:41 3.1 2010 Census
00:37:39 3.2 Ethnic groups
00:41:32 3.3 Religion
00:44:09 4 Economy
00:44:18 4.1 Early economy
00:47:43 4.2 Brewing
00:51:31 4.3 Milwaukee's economy today
00:54:43 5 Culture
00:55:29 5.1 Museums
00:55:38 5.1.1 Art
00:57:09 5.1.2 Science and natural history
01:00:18 5.1.3 Social and cultural history
01:04:02 5.2 Arenas and performing arts
01:04:38 5.3 Public art and monuments
01:04:59 5.4 City of Festivals
01:06:49 5.5 Cuisine
01:07:47 5.6 Music
01:11:47 5.7 Municipal wireless
01:12:39 6 Sports
01:14:22 7 Parks and recreation
01:15:26 7.1 Parks and nature centers
01:16:04 7.2 Milwaukee County public markets
01:17:13 8 Government and politics
01:21:18 8.1 Crime
01:22:25 8.2 Poverty
01:23:00 9 Education
01:23:10 9.1 Primary and secondary education
01:24:46 9.2 Higher education
01:24:59 10 Media
01:28:08 11 Infrastructure
01:28:18 11.1 Health care
01:29:53 11.2 Transportation
01:30:03 11.2.1 Airports
01:31:35 11.2.2 Intercity rail and bus
01:33:05 11.2.3 Transit
01:34:35 11.2.4 Highways
01:39:51 11.2.5 Water
01:40:28 11.2.6 Bicycle
01:43:44 11.2.7 Walkability
01:44:32 11.2.8 Modal characteristics
01:45:42 11.3 City development
01:47:46 12 Notable people
01:47:55 13 Sister cities
01:48:12 13.1 Friendship cities
01:48:33 14 See also
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Milwaukee (, locally ) is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States. The seat of the eponymous county, it is on Lake Michigan's western shore. Ranked by its estimated 2014 population, Milwaukee was the 31st largest city in the United States. The city's estimated population in 2017 was 595,351. Milwaukee is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee metropolitan area which had a population of 2,043,904 in the 2014 census estimate. It is the third-most densely populated metropolitan area in the Midwest, surpassed only by Chicago and Detroit, respectively .Milwaukee is considered a Gamma global city as categorized by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network with a regional GDP of over $105 billion.
The first Europeans to pass through the area were French Catholic Jesuit missionaries, who were ministering to Native Americans, and fur traders. In 1818, the French Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, and in 1846, Juneau's town combined with two neighboring towns to incorporate as the city of Milwaukee. Large numbers of German immigrants arrived during the late 1840s, after the German revolutions, with Poles and other eastern European immigrants arriving in the following decades. Milwaukee is known for its brewing traditions, begun with the German immigrants.
Beginning in the early 21st century, the city has been undergoing its largest construction boom since the 1960s. Major new additions to the city in the past two decades include the Milwaukee Riverwalk, the Wisconsin Center, Miller Park, The Hop (streetcar system), an expansion to the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and Pier Wisconsin, as well as major renovations to the UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena. The Fiserv Forum opened in late 2018.