Round Two! Thanks for your patience everyone with our last-minute venue change.

We still have a hilarious brand new hour of sketch comedy for you to keep your April focused on laughter instead of the rain.

Purchase Tickets Here!

DOORS: 6:30pm

SHOW: 7:30pm

Regarded as one of Chicago's funniest and most promising improv groups of the last decade, Dumb John is proud to return to The iO Theater where they got their start with a new weekly long form improv show. 

Longtime members Mike Geraghty, Steve Plock, and Linda Orr apply their high energy strain of improvisation to a bizarre cultural harvest of small town Americana influence and ephemera.

Dumb John uses a single audience suggestion to inspire a piece of unhinged long form improv that propels diesel-soaked characters through fever dream karaoke scenes and down neon aisles of roadside antique marts; exploring the depravity and brilliance found at the heart of every moment. Wipe off your boots, grab an ice cold cruiser and join them for an evening of more fun than the law allows.

**Use your ticket to get free admission to any 9PM show**

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A weekly comedy show featuring some of the best improv, standup, and sketch in the city!

Doors Open  7:30 PM
Show 8:00 PM - 9:20 PM
Cost $5

Tickets can be purchased online and at the door as well. 
We are a small, open seating venue and encourage groups to arrive 15 minutes before show time to find seats together.
We are also BYOB! (Bring your own beverage)

Tickets can be purchased here

Check out our weekly long-form improv showcase featuring all hot, new improv teams! Hosted by improv team, SquareUp!

Doors Open  9:30 PM
Show 10:00 PM - 11:15 PM
Cost $5

Tickets can be purchased online here and at the door as well. 
We are a small, open seating venue and encourage groups to arrive 15 minutes before show time to find seats together.
We are also BYOB! (Bring your own beverage)

Windy Indie is Excited to Have Stir Friday Night back on the show!!

Tonight 9pm at iO Chicago

Tickets can be purchased here

Take the stress out of holiday conflict with a night of comedy! Come see us find the silver linings in common stressful situations around the holidays. We'll have a variety of guest comedians joining us each night.

SFN: Opens for Conflict of Interest

Tickets can be found here

Are you a member of the AAPI community? Do you know someone a part of the AAPI community? Do you/they love comedy?

Well come audition/forward this flyer for Stir Friday Night!

We're a 503c3 Non-profit comedy organization that's been around for 28 years and have alumni such as Steven Yeun (Minari, Walking Dead), Danny Pudi (Community), and Mary Sohn (AP Bio).

Sounds like a good time? I know it is!

Sign Up Here
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Any questions, email us!

Thanks for reading!

Watch us perform at the Portal, A roaming variety show all around Chicago

Get Tickets Here!

SFN is back in 2023 hitting up one of our favorite venues to perform some improv!

For one night only, we’re bringing our comedy chops uptown to the library! Come watch us play surrounded by knowledge!

Come watch us do Improv with the legendary iO Harold team Devils Daughter

Come watch us play for Logan Square Improv’s signature show The Saturday Show!

Talk Stories: An Asian American/Asian Diaspora Storytelling Show will return to Japanese American Service Committee on Tuesday December 10 at 7:30pm.

We have a great lineup that includes:
Music: Alec Phan
Storytellers:
Christian Aldana
Chloe Chen
Khemarey Khoeun
Danbee Kim
Mia Park
Viveka-Ray-Mazumder
Improv: Stir Friday Night

You don't want to miss this show. Join us in December to help us celebrate another wonderful year for Talk Stories in storytelling and community building.

Talk Stories is produced and hosted by Ada Cheng and Randy Kim.

It's Friday night, and you're ready to go out and laugh up a storm! It's time for Funderstorm Friday. Come see incredible performers do incredibly hilarious scenes & stories, all in one night's amazing lineup!

OCT 4: 8pm The Harry Potter Hour; 10pm The Rollin' in Riches Hour.

OCT 11: 7pm The Seniors Improv Comedy; 8pm Sylus 2020!; 9pm Wretched Hive: Star Wars Improv; 10pm Not Related; 11pm Squid Family Robinson & Friends.

OCT 18: 8pm Market Farmers; 9pm A Murdery Mystery; 10pm The Rollin' in Riches Hour; 11pm Folly.

OCT 25: 8pm Sylus 2020!; 9pm Wretched Hive: Star Wars Improv; 10pm Shrew; 11pm Hollywood Late Night with Rocco!.

Tickets: $5.95 online, $10 at the door.

Admission good for all shows of the night (if seats available).

Must be at least 16 years of age to attend.

We have an exciting event happening this weekend! There is a FREE special screening of the recently released South Korean black comedy and thriller PARASITE at AMC River East on Sunday, October 27 at 6:50pm!

NEON, the distributors of the film, have partnered with an organization called #GOLDOPEN which has generously sponsored the tickets. #GOLDOPEN is dedicated to bringing Asian communities together to support Asian and Asian American films, and we are excited that they reached out to SFN to help do that!

We would love for you to join us for this event. If you're interested, please mark yourself as "Going" so we can reserve your ticket(s). Tickets are limited; please respond asap so we know!

Parasite is a 2019 South Korean black comedy and thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho (director of The Host, Okja, Snowpiercer, and others). The film stars Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, and Park So-dam.

Dynasty at The Mission Theater at iO Chicago

Dynasty is an all-minority improv group! And this is their weekly variety show, featuring standup, sketch, and improv! Formed in 2016, Dynasty has played all over Chicago. Our performers have been featured in the Second City Bob Curry Fellowship, and at The Annoyance Theatre, UP Comedy Club, and Second City Mainstage.

"Dynasty team's talent carries the day at iO Theater..." -The Chicago Tribune

Cast list:
Anthony LeBlanc, Ashley Victoria, Avery Lee, Brendan Tran, Elias Rios, Eunji Kim, Jared Chapman, & Trumane Alston