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!

If tickets for the show remain, they will be available at the box office an hour prior to the show.

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 Improv Games Jam is an opportunity to get on stage and put what you’ve been learning in class into action!

This jam will focus on game-based (short form) improv. Hear the rules or the description of the game and jump in! Make quick choices and find the funny fast!

Mondays 8pm FREE

No ticket required

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

Open to current, former, and prospective students, The Annoyance Student Jam is an opportunity to get on stage and put what you’ve been learning in class into action!

Mondays 9:30pm FREE

No ticket required

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

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.

Ellen Dunn, Jess Wilson, Elaine Stewart, Shaina Stark, and Matthew Stiuso present their new form, The Insignificant Mile! Developed in the Annoyance Training Program, the form features improvisers scene painting based on audience suggestions, building out a strip mall that will become the central location for the show. Have you ever seen a shopping center with a five star restaurant, exotic pet store, and laser tag arcade? Well you’re about to, at the Insignificant Mile!

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

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.

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

A lgbtqia+ themed variety show featuring some of Chicago’s strongest and most diversely hilarious voices!

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