Last night's SNL

If you have good eyes, it's likely that you caught Shelly Gossman in the background of the bridal shower during last night's SNL hosted by Emma Stone.

Jeff Award winners

PRODUCTION – REVUE: "Sky's the Limit (Weather Permitting)" – Second City e.t.c.

ACTOR OR ACTRESS IN A REVUE: Tim Baltz – "Sky's the Limit (Weather Permitting)" – Second City e.t.c.

NEW WORK – MUSICAL OR REVUE: Tim Baltz, Aidy Bryant, Jesse Case, Matt Hovde, Brendan Jennings, Jessica Joy, Michael Lehrer and Mary Sohn – "Sky's the Limit (Weather Permitting)" at Second City e.t.c.

Comedy pilot ordered

A comedy pilot was ordered by Comedy Central featuring Tim Robinson, Mark Ratterman, and Andy Miara.

Comedy Central has ordered My Mans, a comedy presentation from the Chicago writing/acting team of Tim Robinson, Mark Raterman and Andy Miara. The three co-created and are writing/executive producing the project, which stars Robinson and Raterman as two best friends, one who is constantly getting into trouble, and the other who is always bailing him out. The narrative series offers a twist on sketch comedy as it weaves in and out of stand-alone sketches.

RIP Jo Forsberg

Jo Forsberg passed away recently. Mhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifay she rest in peace.

Nora Dunn coming to Second City

Nora Dunn will be speaking to students of the Second City Training Center.

Actress Nora Dunn will be visiting the Training Center on Tuesday, September 20 at 2pm for a free Q&A session for Training Center students.[...]

This event is free to current and former Second City students; non-students of The Second City Training Center can pay the $15 student membership fee to attend.

Catching up...

The Daily Herald profiled Carisa Barreca.

Colin Quinn dropped by to visit Second City.

Late Live Show cancelled

I know I'm slow on posting this...that's what happens when you work on getting a book self-published within a short time frame. Anyway, Second City announced the cancellation of The Late Live Show. It's one of those shows that I wished I had the chance to have seen in person.

Here's what the AV Club notes on the matter:

According to the show’s co-creator and host Joe Kwaczala, the reason given for the cancellation was that the show’s producers were “using the Second City name to further the show.”

In other Second City news, the Up theater is gaining steam on opening. I'm gonna be interested in seeing just how it can compete with Zanies as far as stand-up goes.

One final thing to note: Adam Peacock replaced Tim Robinson in the Mainstage cast.