Comedy Has an Ouchie
What comedy and improv should be: A place to creatively, respectively, and openly express who you are.What comedy and improv has been: A place to creatively and openly express who you are...with a LOT of strings attached and gatekeepers making rules by which we've arbitrarily abided.How do we turn the has been into the should be after a global pandemic and revelations about the failures of how our sacred comedy institutions have dealt with systemic racism, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, and ableism has knocked them off their pedestals?Steve Han, Phylicia McLeod, and Ashley Whitehurst have spent years inside the Chicago comedy scene. And they have thoughts.
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Introducing: Wildwood Flower Season 2
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Well Now I Want to Steal Your Bag
71 min
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Introducing: Feel For the Game, Season 2
Therapy for Sports Fans
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Hold Our Shows to a Higher Standard
47 min
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Introducing: Wildwood Flower
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Chicago Is Where It's At
46 min
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Mohawk Johnson Wants More Black Superheroes
39 min
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Unlearn the Ignorant Things
49 min
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Yes, Virginia, Even Comedians Need Boundaries
53 min
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Focus On Your Own Excellence
60 min
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Why Comedy Isn't a Veneer for Neuroses
50 min
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You Shouldn't Have to Do the Accent
44 min
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Here's What's Healing Comedy
46 min
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To Be Asian Is An Honor
56 min
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Auditions Are Inherently Unfair
51 min
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I’m Not a Sassy Black Woman Sketch
47 min
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Comedy's Problems Are Rooted in White Supremacy
48 min
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Getting Paid in Exposure Won’t Pay My Landlord
49 min
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Idol Worship Is Super Dead!
48 min
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Introducing: Comedy Has an Ouchie
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