The Perfect Amount of Wrong
eBook - ePub

The Perfect Amount of Wrong

The Rise of Alt Comedy on Chicago's North Side

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Perfect Amount of Wrong

The Rise of Alt Comedy on Chicago's North Side

About this book

In just over a decade, a tiny, do-it-yourself stand-up scene on the North Side of Chicago produced some of the most successful and influential stand-up comedians of their generation. Hannibal Buress, T.J. Miller, Kyle Kinane, Cameron Esposito, Pete Holmes, Beth Stelling, Matt Braunger and Kumail Nanjiani make up a partial list of names of comics who emerged from a scene that had very little industry attention--or even a home club. It was also a scene that took a backseat to the city's vaunted improv institution, and if we're being completely honest, it was a scene where comics mostly performed to drunks in the backs of dingy bars on their off nights. None of it was glamorous. None of it should have worked at all. But somehow, some way, the comedians from this scene have managed to etch their own names into the Chicago comedy pantheon. The Perfect Amount of Wrong is the story of that scene, as told by its veterans.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword, by Pete Holmes
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Prologue
  8. Intro
  9. 1. Genesis
  10. 2. The Comedy Asylum
  11. 3. The Elevated (Beginnings)
  12. 4. The Red Lion (Beginnings)
  13. 5. Midnight Bible School
  14. 6. Piñata Full of Bees
  15. 7. Anti-Comedy
  16. 8. The End of the Red Lion
  17. 9. The Festival
  18. 10. The Anti-Festival
  19. 11. Dwayne
  20. 12. The Den (Beginnings)
  21. 13. Kro
  22. 14. The Lincoln Lodge (Beginnings)
  23. 15. The Den (Peak)
  24. 16. 2004 (Beginnings)
  25. 17. A Whole Dave Odd Chapter
  26. 18. ChUC
  27. 19. 2006
  28. 20. The Elevated (End)
  29. 21. 2007
  30. 22. Exodus
  31. 23. Blerds (End)
  32. Outro
  33. Notes
  34. Bibliography
  35. About the Author