Scott Adsit

Sarah Silverman added to Just for Laughs

The comic Sarah Silverman has been added to the line-up of the TBS Just for Laughs Festival. Silverman will present an evening of her "favorite comedians" at the Chicago Theatre at 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. June 16. Tickets for all shows go on sale 10 a.m....

Tags: ImprovOlympic, Facebook, Sarah Silverman, Janeane Garofalo, Comedy (genre)

Reviews from Just for Laughs Chicago: Kevin Smith, Hannibal Buress, Janeane Garofalo + Kyle Kinane, Scott Adsit + Kevin Dorff, Patton Oswalt and Stephen Merchant

Going into "An Evening with Kevin Smith," it was difficult to imagine Smith answering audience questions as a Chicago Theatre show and one of the centerpieces of this year's TBS Just for Laughs Chicago comedy festival. Watching the 41-year-old...

Tags: Patton Oswalt, Plan B (drug), Kentucky Fried Chicken, The Office (tv program), Saturday Night Live (tv program)

Adsit and Lutz find deadly funny comedy in improv set

'The Hangover 2': New York movie premiere gets the boys out to play

Actor, comedian Scott Adsit attends Glenbrook Foundation event

Scott Adsit, who graduated from Glenbrook North High School in 1980s, was one of more than 100 people who attended the Glenbrook Foundation's first-ever fundraiser, called A Night with Glenbrook Theater, on Saturday, May 4, at Glenbrook South High School....

Tags: Entertainment Events, Tampa, New York City, Music Theater, 30 Rock (tv program)

Just For Laughs Chicago adds Russell Brand, Scott Adsit, more

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TBS Just For Laughs Chicago has added Russell Brand, Pete Holmes, Paul F. Tompkins, Brian Posehn, Doug Benson, Todd Glass, Scott Adsit, Kevin Dorff, Jon Glaser, TJ & Dave, Horatio Sanz, Matt Walsh, Brad Morris and Joe Nunez to its festival line-up....

Tags: Russell Brand, Brian Posehn, Ticketmaster, Nick Swardson, Culture

Improv Fest: Subtle mastery from Adsit and Lutz

Chicago has long been improv's home base. Much of this is due to the ongoing influence of Del Close, the outsize personality and improv guru (and the subject of at least two films being developed about his life) who made the persuasive case that...

Tags: ImprovOlympic, Tina Fey, 30 Rock (tv program)

Improv Fest: One dumb idea can be a lot to work with

The 2013 Chicago Improv Festival kicked off earlier this week with Craig Cackowski — a veteran Second City and iO performer seen in recent years on NBC's "Community" — asking the audience for a suggested location. The first reply shouted out...

Tags: Community (tv program), ImprovOlympic, Festive Events, 30 Rock (tv program), Raising Hope (tv program)

Improv Fest: Scott Adsit on acting and that thing with Clinton

As the character Pete Hornberger on NBC's late, lamented “30 Rock,” Scott Adsit played for seven seasons the relative straight man surrounded by a cast of oddballs and idiosyncratics. But among true comedy nerds, particularly in Chicago,...

Tags: Festive Events, Lobbying, 30 Rock (tv program), William Shakespeare, Rachel Dratch

Chicago Improv Festival schedule includes TV funny folks

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It's like stuffing a car full of clowns ... A carload of TV stars with Chicago ties are among the 765 artists set to make funny April 1-7 at the 16th annual Chicago Improv Festival. "I'm thrilled that Craig and I will finally get to make stuff up for...

Tags: Schaumburg, Annoyance Theatre, Raising Hope (tv program), Lucas Neff, Evanston

'30 Rock': The five best moments from seven seasons

"30 Rock" has finally come to an end. We'll no longer have a chance to check in on Liz, Jack, Tracy, Jenna and poor, hapless Lutz. But that doesn't mean we can't keep our amazing memories of the "TGS" gang going through endless requoting and YouTube clip-...

Tags: Tracy Morgan, YouTube, Jim Carrey, John Cullum, Conan O'Brien

SAG Awards 2013: The complete winners and nominees list

Ben Affleck's "Argo," a drama about the Iranian hostage crisis, won the highest acting honor Sunday night at the 19th Screen Actors Guild Awards. The CIA thriller, which won best ensemble cast, also won the directing honor at the Golden Globe Awards two...

Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Vice (movie), Jim Parsons, Javier Bardem, Helen Mirren