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Some day, when the final history of comedy is written, let it be known that last summer, on the fringes of Netflix, during the cult sketch series “I Think You Should Leave Now,” for three and a half minutes, humanity achieved peak Bob Odenkirk.

A comedian who has won Emmy Awards for his writing and acclaim for his acting in dramas, Bob Odenkirk takes everything in stride. Except for speculation that he doesnt like his hometown of Naperville.

Having escaped an ‘existential lightning bolt’, you might expect the comic actor to be slowing down. You’d be wrong

How Minneapolis first espresso coffeehouse launched a nationally known comedy institution.

'Dead Eyes' mines Ratliff's biggest failure — being fired from 'Band of Brothers' — and has finally turned him into a huge success.

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Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Don’t turn the lights out on the iO theater just yet. The North Side comedy house’s longtime owner, Charna Halpern, said Monday that she has sold the building and the iO brand to a pair of local real estate executives. The buyers, Scott Gendell and Larry Weiner, intend to reopen the space at 1501 N. Kingsbury St. and resume offering improv shows and classes there, she said. “I’m so relieved, I can’t tell you,” Halpern said. In its 40 years in business, iO (forme...

This weekend, Charna Halpern's iO Chicago makes its final exit from the scruffy strip of Clark Street bars just south of Wrigley Field. The Chicago launchpad for many a TV and Hollywood career in comedy is headed farther south to posh, new digs at 1501 N. Kingsbury St.

(Image credit: Jeff Lemire (DC)) June brings many contemporary, classic, cult-favorite, and almost-forgotten comic books to DC Universe Infinite. Just as the live-action Sweet Tooth series debuts on Netflix this month, DC Universe Infinite has added all forty issues of the original Jeff Lemire comic book series Sweet Tooth. Its also keeping up with the current surprise hit series Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point, with each issue debuting on DC Universe Infinite the same time it does in comic stores...

From comedy clubs to Better Call Saul and beyond Bob Odenkirk is writing a memoir about his years in comedy, and his transition to straight actor starring in the likes of Better Call Saul. Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir will be published in the States in January and will chart how a chance meeting with Del Close of the influential Second City troupe led to his career in comedy. As well as performing in the clubs, he became a writer at Saturday Night Live, penning lines for his friend Chri...