Who would make a deal with the devil to end the housing crisis?

What kind of rock band only communicates through text?

Where IS the box large enough to fit the entire moon?

This Thanksgiving season, the questions don’t get answered, but they do get weirder.

Welcome to IRRELEPHANT: STUFFED, a fast, funny, and unhinged hour of Chicago-style sketch comedy, served up hot from some of the city’s sharpest comedic minds. It’s absurd. It’s off the wall. It’s just the right amount of gravy-drenched chaos to kick off your holiday season.

In a world where everything matters… nothing is IRRELEPHANT.

Just two shows! Gobble them up while you can:

Saturday, November 15  6-7pm

Saturday, November 22  6-7pm

Created By & Featuring: Tom Beheler, Corey Bradberry, Ella Carson, Dan Feltey, Lily Gaddis, Kyle Greenberg, Dan Hickey, Kane Jabbar, Oriana Jones, Avery Keifer, Alexis Kraft, Ronnie Lyall, Luke Lowers, Drew Montgomery, Molly Olson, Clara Imon Pedtke, Ty Sato, Emma Samson, Gretchen Shull, & Jarryd Widhalm

Produced & Directed by Corey Bradberry

Co-Produced by Tom Beheler, Jarryd Widhalm, Kyle Greenberg, & Molly Olson

in Partnership with YAS AND COMEDY, FLAMBOYANT ATTACHMENT, and SIX IN THE CITY.

Mentalism meets improv comedy in the entirely unique form created by Annoyance founder Mick Napier. There is truly nothing else like it.

As more than 2 million Illinois residents face the loss of SNAP Annoyance hosts two special benefit performances titled "SNAP Out of It" on November 8 and November 15, with ticket proceeds supporting the Common Pantry's mission to provide food security to those in need.

All ticket, auction and donation proceeds, as well as non-perishable items donated for food drive go to Common Pantry.

Each show features a different lineup... 

TALENT INCLUDES:

Annoyance Teachers (Fishbowl)

Best of Annoyance Sketch

Claudia Wallace

Father Figures

JC Brooks

Missed Call

Napier & Estlin

Sean Flannery

Second City

Shake the Baby

Susan Messing & John Lehr

TJ Jagodowski

Tuesday Musical Improv

AUCTION ITEMS FROM: 

Drew's On Halsted

Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce

Second City

Steppenwolf Theatre

Enjoy an evening of off-the-cuff improv with some of the best emerging talent in the Chicago area. Fire & Beer is a fully improvised comedy show that explores the dark sides of life, relationships and human beings. The show features the Annoyance House Ensemble who excel at both long- and short-form improv. You can expect lots of laughs during this unpredictable improv show.

An hour long comedy show featuring some of Annoyance Theatre’s best and funniest.

Introducing the Annoyance Variety Hour! Featuring performances from Chicago's best comedians, musicians, magicians, circus performers, puppeteers, and everything in between! A true everything goes show reminiscent of classic programs like the Ed Sullivan Show and the Gong Show, its sure to surprise and amaze even the most seasoned of theater goers. Hosted by one of Chicago's best alternative comedians, Michael Serio, an international headliner and regular at major comedy venues all across the city, and live music played every night by the soulful stylings of the musical comedy duo sensation So Far So Good, the only thing you'll be disappointed by is that you didn't go see it sooner. 

A bunch of grown-ass adults get high and play make believe.

In a coven, where the witches don’t want to move and find new friends, where partners are passed around, and where warlocks go to sleeze. What is this? oh yeah it's THE COVEN. Join the warlocks and witches as they celebrate a wedding in vegas!

Calling all 90s kids! This show is for you. Each week Chicago’s hottest comedians share PowerPoints on their favorite 90s obsessions, while the audience battles over trivia from Boy Bands to Beanie Babies. Hosted by Colette Gregory and Bren Tran, this show mixes comedy, crowdwork, and (your favorite 90s) crushes into a wild night that will make you forget you’re grown!

The Annoyance's very own musical ensembles. They sing funny songs. Off the top of their heads. Every Tuesday at 8.

A Random Memory is a close-up magic show about memories, connection, and bringing people together to experience magic. In this highly interactive hour of card tricks and mentalism your memories take center stage to make classics of magic more meaningful. So take a seat at the close-up table and together let’s make a magic show worth remembering.

Veteran improvisers Susan Messing & Rachael Mason tear it up in a pre-Thanksgiving romp through hell.

Do you like Drag? Do you like Talking during movies? Well come to Rewind:Mystery Science Theatre 69000!

With your host the GlamRockGremlin of Chicago Bennie Boy! And special Guest Star Commentators Glittery Trashcat and Saturn Uranus. Movie of the Night is the under appreciated, ahead of its time- Josie and the Pussycats! 

You've been summoned...to laugh.

Jury Duty is a fully improvised courtroom comedy where the only thing on trial is sanity itself.

Each night, the cast creates a brand new legal disaster based on audience suggestion, questionable logic, and total chaos. Watch as the foreperson loses their mind, evidence makes things worse, and deliberations go off the rails.

No script, no rules, no justice. Just comedy

The trial is fake, the laughs are real

Start your weekends early with Cafe Lounge Underwater, Thursdays at The Annoyance!

Cafe Lounge Underwater is a sketch show that feels like a great house party. There’s dancing, music, drinks, and of course, laughs. Join Caroline Burke, Tom Phelan, and Maryrose Sheridan as they perform sketches from their monthly show run!

After two sold-out runs at Chicago’s Annoyance Theatre and features in the Chicago Sketchfest and Miami Improv Festival, Cafe Lounge Underwater brings a brand new show that will have you asking, “when can we all hang out next?”

Fishbowl hosted by Sight Unseen is a two act improv show. First, Annoyance students get a chance to enter their IDs into a fishbowl to be randomly selected to perform in an improv jam with veteran Annoyance teachers and performers. The night closes with a set from Sight Unseen - an Annoyance house team that prides itself on being equal parts heartwarming and offensive.

Inspired by the classic TV show The Twilight Zone, we explore our audience's deepest fears with a comedic twist. Join us for a new fully improvised episode each week in the dimension of imagination!

Napier & Estlin - new show and new stuff! Feats of mind reading and mesmerization. Be Amazed!

WOAH! NEW EVERY MONTH. A raucous. raunchy, sometimes juvenile but always funny sketch show that will make your daddy give your mommy a pearl necklace... to clutch. Get tickets now, they're selling faster than a Stewie doll at Spencer's. DM: @Antivirginclub proof you bought tickets and we will draw you boobs.

A Chicago based improv comedy show and drinking game based on the works of Alfred Hitchcock.

See a collage of character studies, scenes, songs and maybe even some audience interaction, all written in a week by some of Chicago’s most accomplished comedians. The “Holy Fuck Comedy Hour” is a curated hour of eclectic, comedic material written in a week with no rehearsals. Featuring a powerful collective representing a wide cross-section of the Chicago comedy community, the material varies every week.