Saturday Morning collaborates sketch comedians, animators, voice actors and sound designers to bring hilarious comedy sketches to life through BRILLIANT CARTOONS!

This year's 10 Minutes to Laugh will showcase three new plays, and alternating casts on different nights! Read further to see who will be featured, as we have two performances: 

The Narcissist, the Drunk, the Pushover (and Everybody Else) Written by Henry Hipp, Directed by Ollie Grishaber  

The Antichrist Play

Written by Natalia Montaño, Directed by Ollie Grishaber 

I Would Never Not Dance Again 

Written and Directed by Ally Hyman  

A three act revue displaying the beauties and intricacies of musical improv, devised improv, and the whimsical stylings of dog eats god.

A sketch show directed by Faculty Member Eunji Kim.

A personal analysis on gossip by Lily Valentine who hopes to create a perfect world of complete and radical honesty. 

This solo show explores the journey of a cowboy, who's ride on the open road has left him changed. In this autobiographical story, revered performer and certified badass Peyton Baisden reflects on what he lost on the road and how that changed his path. There are also deep reflections on why Bon Jovi is so frickin cool. 

A sketch show that begs the question, what if a sketch show was a party? It is full of heightened characters, absurd scenarios, and the magic of friendship.

It’s just me tombert.

Semicolon Parenthesis is a sketch show with comedians Ev Clark and Connor Snow, two former Southerners from Kentucky & Texas respectively. When they met they found out their friendship would have the strongest love there is, and wanted to share that with the world. The lil show they've crafted will make you laugh and love each other. In these trying times, what more can you ask for?

A multimedia comedy experience about Chicago's bean statute and Henry Hipp’s unlikely love for it. The show takes a deep dive into the history of the statute as well as explores why Henry is so fascinated by it.

Upbeat music experience featuring multiple acts as well as some headliner acts. Comedians should do music more often!

Guerrilla Press is a live, weekly podcast hosted by EJ Cameron and Nick Hausman. Every Sunday night, the two make jokes about the top political and pop culture stories of the week, before welcoming some of the most influential and interesting names from Chicago and around the world. 

• January 18: Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh
• January 25: WTTW's Geoffrey Baer
• February 1: 44th Ward Alderman Bennett Lawson
• February 8: Civic Super Bowl (Super Bowl Watch Party & Post-Show Podcast)

General admission tickets are $10, and VIP tickets are available for $20. VIPs receive priority seating and a photo with Cameron and Hausman on stage after the show.

A variety show starring the patron saint of Slut Tuesday: Penn Lodin.

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

Throw on your slip because it’s time to get Dressed Up! Slip Dress is hosting a slumber party a.k.a. a monthly variety hour and YOU’RE INVITED!!! Full of sketch, improv, characters, and more, this show is the dance you do with your friend for your parents. Bold. Whimsical. Vigorously rehearsed. With material that explores shower thoughts and the charming awkwardness of being a human, we celebrate the parts of ourselves that emerge after everyone else falls asleep early. So, pack your retainer, grab your sleeping bag, and delight with us in embracing the cringe.

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

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

Just like your favorite snack, Comedy Chex Mix serves up a crunchy combo of comedy styles that keeps you coming back for more. Each show features two dynamic high-energy improv teams whose sets are inspired by performances from two local Chicago stand-ups with Heya Toots! as your headliner every show.

Rotating improv teams Old Friends and Funny Business bring their own unique flavors to the mix, while sharp comedians like Anna Byrd, Jordan Euell, Rebecca Augustine, Yzzy Zarate, Emilia Barrosse, Nathan Matos, Becca Nix, Mary Budd, Mia Pillar, Stevie McDunn, Chloe Burns, and Evelyn Lawrence keep the stand-up lineup fresh.

It's the perfect blend of killer stand-up, spontaneous scenes, and that unpredictable flavor you didn't know you needed. Every show is different, every laugh is fresh, and every bite-sized bit hits just right.

 A new favorite of Chicago’s improv comedy scene, Super Scaries is the improvised horror musical that transforms one ordinary object into a brand-new nightmare. It’s terrifying, it’s hilarious, and it’s gone forever by the final note.

Step into the one glamorous but now lovingly frayed Blue Velvet Lounge, where the only thing not improvised are the jazz standards crooned by lounge singer Seth Lowry. As Seth’s velvet voice fades, the ensemble sweeps in, spinning spontaneous scenes inspired directly by the songs just performed. One moment, you’re eavesdropping on the eccentric regulars tucked into the lounge’s candlelit corners; the next, you’re whisked far beyond the club to follow the unexpected lives of the characters you just met—bartenders with secret ambitions, mysterious strangers with tangled pasts, and dreamers who stepped into the Blue Velvet for reasons they can’t quite explain. Playful, surprising, and steeped in a retro-cool vibe, this show blends live music and improvised storytelling into a one-of-a-kind night where every note inspires a new twist—and every visit to the Blue Velvet reveals something you’ve never seen before.

As a Christian kid, maybe you grew up with Veggie Tales, Psalty the Singing Songbook, or The Donut Man. But what wholesome content do the kids of today have? Why, Benny Bingo and the Evangelikids of course! Become an Evangelikid and meet us at the Flamingo Club House! We'll learn all about Jesus and the Gospel through songs, stories, prescriptive gender roles, and patriarchy! But when the cameras cut, it seems like some of the kids, and perhaps even Benny Bingo himself, are starting to have questions....maybe even doubts? Watch this heartwarming and hilarious original musical that explores themes of deconstruction, queerness, and individuality within the confines of an oppressive belief system — all while unapologetically leaning into joy.

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

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.