Second City

OMG! Get ready to LOL when The Second City rolls into the Englert this weekend. You might even be ROTFLOL before the night’s over, as Chicago’s premier comedy troupe builds the laughs through sketch comedy and its trademark improvisation.

It’s the same company that launched the careers of Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray and other cream-of-the-crop laughmasters since 1959. That’s a lot of serious funny business.

We’ve praised their Englert shows in the past, saying, “The Second City comedians are first-rate at thinking on their feet. Whatever bizarre words or scenarios the audience members toss at ’em, the troupers can spin them into comedy gold.”