Ten years after Chicago saw its first full-time comedy club open, the landscape was decidedly different. “Stand-up comedy has exploded in the last couple of years,“ a club owner told the Chicago Tribune in 1985. “That’s the only way to describe it: exploded.” It was truly a comedy boom, as many as 15 full-time clubs […]
Author: Vince Vieceli
… And I Happily Gave a Second Idea Away
Author Mike Thomas: “Like many of my best ideas, the notion to write a biography of Phil Hartman came from someone else – namely, scribe and former stand-up comedian Vince Vieceli. A former comic and co-author of the recently published ‘Stand-Up Comedy in Chicago’, Vince emailed me one day in late 2010 and said he’d […]