Brand new sketch comedy every week from one of Chicago’s premiere sketch teams.

Hail and well met, traveler! Grab a drink, put up your cloak, and I’ll tell you a tale. Escapades is a completely improvised choose-your-own adventure. Sprinkled throughout each story are opportunities for the audience to vote on what happens next. Whether we’re riding jetpacks on Mars or a unicorn through a gumdrop forest, you’re guaranteed a night of gasps, laughs, twists, turns, and daring rescues. Excelsior!

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.

Back by popular demand, this original comedy by Deana Velandra is for reality television lovers and haters alike. In this play, a popular television network will take eight lucky certified Hot People, put them on an island, and make them do stuff. Through a series of unexpected twists, the Hot People are left to figure out the difference between truth and reality. Based on reality television staples like Love Island, Survivor, and Traitors, this absurd Hot comedy is sure to keep Hot audiences guessing til the very end.  

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

Football: Four quarters and 100 yards of American Dream. And nowhere is the dream more alive than Tacoma Washington High School. This musical takes you through the raunchy highs and tragic lows of high school football. The season isn’t over til the whistle blows and we didn’t hear no whistle. Saturdays at 7:30 January 31st through March 7th. Limited Sunday show run tickets available. 

Book & lyrics by Christian Pitsch 

Music by Lisa McQueen 

Directed by Edgar Nevarez 

Choreography by Sheena Laird

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.

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

Guerrilla Press is a Chicago-based progressive independent media company founded by comedians and best friends, EJ Cameron and Nick Hausman. Every Sunday night, they take over The Annoyance to record their flagship podcast! 

Each episode features Cameron and Hausman making jokes and having “partially educated conversations” about the week’s top news, before welcoming special guests for interviews and games. 

For more information about upcoming guests, please visit Guerrilla-Press.com or check out their Instagram page @Guerrilla_Press.

Every episode of Guerrilla Press is available on YouTube and all major podcast platforms.

BUTTERFACE is a two-person sketch show extravaganza exploring themes of compassion, love, empathy, and cringe. Written and performed through the vessels of Brady Barrow and Ollie Grishaber, these two will bring the beauty of HOPE back to comedy by doing the unspeakable: being two women with okay faces. Sure, the sketches are really good…but her face!

It’s Funny Cause I’m from _ is a sketch variety show directed by Eunji Kim, The show explores themes of what it means to be a part of this generation. We discuss themes of lust and desire, the never-ending doom scrolling, and what relationships really mean. Come learn about these students and maybe even something about yourself. From small towns of corn in Texas to booming metropolises, this show features students from across the nation. This show runs every Monday night and changes every week. All the work is created by DePaul Comedy art students with assistance from Director Eunji Kim and Assistant Director Li Angarola. Take a risk, come to laugh, cry, and tell us about where you’re from, too! 

Open to current, former, and prospective students, The Annoyance Musical Improv Jam is the perfect opportunity to practice what you’ve been learning in class, or experiment and try something new!

Tuesdays 7:00pm FREE

No ticket required

Any money collected will be considered a donation to The Annoyance’s Scholarship Funds

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

RPG-13 is an improv comedy company that uses the world of tabletop role playing games to create adventures with the help of the audience. We invite three different volunteer audience members onstage, one at a time, and help them create their very own character, statistics, and genre for their adventure, including which member of our cast will be portraying them. Then a completely improvised story is created by our cast of Adventurers, with our Game Master and volunteer audience member changing anything they want! But the random roll of the dice will determine how those changes go. Roll a 20, a glorious success! Roll a 1, a hilarious disaster! Join us to create your adventure onstage, where you have all the possibilities! Run time: 60 minutes