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Chicago's Second City comedy cult is a way of life by Jay Richardson

John Belushi, Bill Murray, Tina Fey and George Wendt all graduated from the highly influential Chicago standup school. It's all about supporting, not competing against, your fellow comicComparing short-form improv, those knockabout games featured on Whose Line is It Anyway?, with the more naturalistic, long-form tradition favoured by graduates of Chicago's Second City theatre group is like comparing "Louie Louie with…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AM on June 11, 2014

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