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Second City at 50: Still cranking out laughs

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:10:09 GMT

CHICAGO -- On a blustery fall afternoon, Andy St. Clair slips into an empty club, with rows of tables, wooden chairs and a bare stage awaiting its next bit of comedy magic. It doesn't look like much, but the stage is something of a shrine.
Source: Miami Herald

Slide Show: Second City celebrates 50 years

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:53:40 GMT

Iconic Second City celebrates 50 years. Watch our slide show of archival photos, featuring John Belushi, Steve Carrell, Bill Murray, Stephen Colbert, Mike Myers and many more. We are pleased to let readers post comments about an article.
Source: The San Jose Mercury News

Slide Show: Second City celebrates 50 years

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:49:11 GMT

Iconic Second City celebrates 50 years. Watch our slide show of archival photos, featuring John Belushi, Steve Carrell, Bill Murray, Stephen Colbert, Mike Myers and many more.
Source: Contra Costa Times

Second City still cranking out laughs at 50

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:24:34 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — On a blustery fall afternoon, Andy St. Clair slips into an empty club, with rows of tables, wooden chairs and a bare stage awaiting its next bit of comedy magic. It doesn't look like much, but the stage is something of a shrine.
Source: The Saratogian

Second City at 50: A 'comedy factory' still cranking out laughs and stars

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:18:47 GMT

This is The Second City, the place where legions of comics - among them Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Mike Myers, Chris Farley, John Belushi, Bill Murray and John Candy - sometimes killed, sometimes flopped, but always tried to make 'em...
Source: Macleans.ca

Second City at 50: A `comedy factory' still cranking out laughs — and stars

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:07:04 GMT

CHICAGO - On a blustery fall afternoon, Andy St. Clair slips into an empty club, with rows of tables, wooden chairs and a bare stage awaiting its next bit of comedy magic. It doesn't look like much, but the stage is something of a shrine.
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

Fifty Years of Second City

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:05:46 GMT

By Joanne Kaufman More than 500 people have approached The Second City's co-founder Bernard Sahlins over the years to assure him that they were among the 120 present at the improvisational comedy troupe's opening night in two former storefronts on...
Source: Wall Street Journal

Launch pad to 'SNL,' beyond

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:02:37 GMT

Mary Gross was a Second City Mainstage performer in 1980 when she got a call that John Belushi wanted her to audition to play his wife in the upcoming comedy "Neighbors."
Source: Chicago Tribune

Quoted in 'Chris Knight on DVDs: Legends both: biplane & boom box'

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:02:17 GMT

Peter Gabriel said in National Post:

Isn't this the John Belushi movie?

Photo from AP Photo

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:06:24 GMT

In this 1971 photo from The Second City archives is John Belushi. Most cast members came up through the training centers _ usually starting with a touring company or the smaller Chicago stage.

Quoted in 'NeNe Leakes to Michael Lohan: You Suck!'

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:59:12 GMT

said in The Hollywood Gossip:

I’m not gonna see my daughter die! You have Michael Jackson, you had Heath Ledger, Adam Goldstein. You can go back to John Belushi, Anna Nicole Smith, and even Elvis Presley. It was prescription drugs that killed these people. I’m not gonna watch my daughter die.

John Belushi True Hollywood Story Act 1-A

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:49:24 GMT