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Tina fey second city7/2/2023 “It’s a comedy factory,” says Harold Ramis, a former cast member turned director-writer-actor-producer. He’s at the Wells Street theater this day for rehearsals for the 97th main stage show, “The Taming of the Flu.”įrom one generation to the next, Second City has cranked out talent with clockwork regularity. Thirty years later, it was Carell (Arkin’s cast mate in “Little Miss Sunshine”) as a job applicant ordered to disguise his voice so a blindfolded personnel manager can guard against biases. Second City has survived and thrived for a half-century with the same formula: small, youngish casts parody, satire and improvisation and hip, irreverent, topical, often political humor.ĭecades ago, it was Alan Arkin in a rain hat and slicker phoning God - “That’s N-O-A-H,” he tells the divine - and auditioning ark candidates. Late last year, the theater marked its 50th anniversary, a milestone that’s even more impressive in the ephemeral world of show business. 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 laugh. It doesn’t look like much, but the stage is something of a shrine. Clair slips into an empty club, with rows of tables, wooden chairs and a bare stage awaiting its next bit of comedy magic. CHICAGO - On a blustery fall afternoon, Andy St.
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