Along with Colbert, the Chicago school of comedy on rise
For some in Chicago, the anointing of Stephen Colbert as the successor to David Letterman this month was a watershed, greatly-to-be-savored moment of total establishment dominance by the Chicago comedy school — as propagated by such venerable institutions as The Second City, iO, the Annoyance Theatre and the Chicago Improv Festival, and their various spinoffs, ensembles and gurus.