Chicago Lineup
Line-up:
Sarah Silverman
Amy Schumer
Bill Burr
Chris D'Elia
Chris Hardwick
Hannibal Buress
Jim Jefferies
Michael Che
DJ Trauma

SECOND STAGE ft.
Brody Stevens
And More


Id love to see Jefferies, Burr, and Sliverman.


27$ for Lawn

Wow. This looks awesome.

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I mean if you like stand up, its a deal.


Too bad Louis CK wont be in Chicago.

Where is it being held or did I miss that somewhere?

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Tinley Park seems like an odd venue for a comedy festival.

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yeah, i question whether an outdoor ampitheatre/festival setting is an ideal way to see comedy....

I could see something like Ravinia, actually that would be a great place to see something like this. I
haven't been to Tinley since Farm Aid 1997. Never really had much of a reason to go back and this
won't draw me either.

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i'm struggling to remember the last time I was there
I think it was for Steely Dan in the early 00's

Well the acoustics are bad there but that doesnt matter. As long as you hear what they're sayiing.


For 27$ Id do it.

well yeah...with music it doesn't always matter
comedy.......kindddddda does
but yeah, 27$ is pretty cheap for something of that scale

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No I think the opposite. I mean you can hear them and if there is an echo or a bad sound it doesnt matter as long as you hear what they're saying. In comedy the words matter more than the sound

Hannibal's hilarious. Jim Jeffries been good on podcasts I've heard him on. Bill Burr the headliner here, I assume.
Burr gives Chris Hardwick crap for not being able to headline.

Brody Stevens is terrible. I believe I've had this conversation with RPB. When I see his name on anyone's podcast, I immediately throw my phone at the wall...

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Yeah, his thing is weird.


I was thinking it might be fun to heckle him though. Guy has a serious screw loose.

You know, if you're gonna do that, you should look in the Nokia Windows phones:

That's a good enough deal to make me momentarily consider leaving the house.

I wouldn't mind listening to Schumer as well before her 15 minutes is up.

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wow, thats an angle i hadn't considered. with huge attendance numbers compared to a club or theater, there is huge opportunity....

Brody Stevens’ Twitter feed has become a must-follow for comedy nerds; but is the comic losing it?

By Jake Kroeger | August 10, 2011 at 6:55 pm | 4 Comments | News, Opinion | Tags: Andrés Du Bouchet, brody stevens, crime, tmz, twitter

Many times, the most frustrating thing about a comedian can be trying to figure out when or if said comedian is joking or not. While Andy Kaufman based most of his career on challenging audiences and their expectations, irony and sarcasm can easily be lost on the public. They can be even easier to lose when you’re only reading text without any sound or image on a medium like Twitter.

Earlier, this week, staff writer for Conan, Andrés Du Bouchet got over 300 people to tweet the word “boner” for “the kids of Harlem,” which is clearly a prank, and a hilarious one at that; feeds across Twitter were covered with “boner” However, such clarity with the humor isn’t apparent over the giant micro-blogging platform. Comedian, former warm-up comic for Chelsea Lately, and fill-in host for TMZ, Brody Stevens over the last several days has literally been tweeting non-stop at his feed @AllThingsBrody. Here’s one from a little over an hour ago:



Through filling in for TMZ’s Harvey Levin, attacking Adam Carolla after being on his podcast, becoming friends with Marilyn Manson, getting into altercations at the Comedy Store and at Starbucks, getting arrested and released (see pic below), and more Brody has tweeted it all at a furious pace– almost always using the hashtag #positivity. Tweeting a tirade against anyone that has wronged him or sent him “an ounce of negative energy” his way, Brody has attacked not only Carolla, but also Jeffrey Ross, police officers by name, and even the seemingly all-powerful entertainment agency CAA.



While his feed has gone from funny to hilarious to entertaining to fascinating to even worrisome (#meds and #gun have also been common hashtags), it’s been unclear the whole time whether Brody is joking or not. First off, his tweets almost have to be decoded, as they’re not written in complete sentences and have several hashtags ranging from #magnets to #BORAS to #jew to #trust to #hammer. At other times, Brody will lash out out against other comedians that won’t support him and then immediately apologize and then say that he’s a good guy. He has thus drawn comparisons to Charlie Sheen and the aforementioned Kaufman.

As a result, comedy fans have claimed they’ve followed Brody since the beginning. And it seems the comic is getting more requests to do shows; Marc Maron has even asked Brody to be on his podcast WTF. Whatever you think Brody’s doing, it’s working. He already had a small following having performed stand-up and landing roles in movies like The Hangover and Due Date. But now, Brody is weeding out causal fans and finding his truly loyal ones, the ones that will buy albums, watch him live wherever he goes, even tune into TMZ despite harboring a deep loathing for the program. It’s been a viral marketing campaign unlike any other and Brody has been #winning.



From complaining that he gets no respect when going up late at the Comedy Store to now actively claiming he runs comedy in Hollywood, Brody, even while your reading this article continues to pull off one of the greatest stunts on Twitter never to trend. Maybe it’s a glitch, but somehow, even with a respectable 12,000+ followers, Brody has filled entire feeds of other people with his tweets and RT’s and still hasn’t gotten himself trending. I’ve talked to people who, even though they might not think he’s funny, they can’t stop following Stevens, for fear they’ll miss his next tweet.

I think it's so cutting edge when Sarah Silverman talks in her baby voice while swearing and talking about sex.

She pretty much defines why women are not funny.

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You're not really wrong, but then the alternative is to be Paula Poundstone .... which one could do worse than, to be sure.

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Paula Poundstone falls into the Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O'Donell category of asexuality.

Women can be funny in sketch comedy.

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Agree!

Stand up and lawn tickets....Hmmmm? Not sure how that one is going to play

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I've been to a show at Tinley that was seats only. The lawn was closed. Maybe that's what they're gonna do with this.

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Might see if I can get cheap tickets and go. I imagine they'll be giving them away

Groupon

Somebody told me about that. I dont get how that works.