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  1. Mike Myers Drops Out Del Close Biopic ‘Del’Earlier this year it was confirmed that Mike Myers had signed on to play legendary Chicago improv coach Del Close in a biopic called Del, but […]
    By Megh Wright
  2. Mike Myers to Play Improv Guru Del Close in Upcoming Biopic ‘Del’A Del Close biopic that’s been in development for several years is moving forward with SNL alum Mike Myers. According to The Hollywood […]
    By Megh Wright
  3. ‘Thank You Del’ Tells the Story of a Man and the Thriving Community He […] In the documentary Thank You Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon, the thesis of the film is mercifully clear. There existed a man named […]
    By Disha Jani
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    Watch Young Amy Poehler’s Lost Second City PilotIt’s called RVTV.
    By Nate Jones
  5. This 20-Year-Old Amy Poehler Pilot Is the Stuff of Comedy Nerd DreamsWelcome to The Second City Archives, in which we post an exclusive clip each week of some of comedy’s biggest superstars performing early in […]
    By Megh Wright
  6. Adam McKay on What He Learned from Working with Improv Guru Del CloseWill Ferrell doesn’t mince words when describing Adam McKay, his longtime friend and comedy collaborator. “He’s kind of a dangerous […]
    By Mike Sacks
  7. Fun Thing to Buy of the Day: Del Close’s ‘How to Speak Hip’What better way to honor improv guru Del Close than with a post about a spoken word record he released in 1959? With an entire three-day […]
    By Arielle Gordon
  8. This Week in Comedy: UCB’s Del Close Marathon, Talking to Amy Schumer, and […]-We talked to Fred Armisen about leaving SNL and diving back into Portlandia. -We talked to Amy Schumer about her Comedy Central show, Inside […]
    By Nick Pearl
  9. UCB Announces Ridiculously Good Del Close Marathon Line-Up, AgainUCB has announced the schedule for its annual Del Close Marathon and as always, it seems too good to be true. The 56-hour long-form improv […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  10. There Are Two Dueling Del Close Biopics in Development There’s been a lot of hubbub in the press lately about two competing Steve Jobs biopics, but now, The Chicago Tribune reports that there are […]
    By Bradford Evans
  11. Neil Flynn Talks Del CloseNeil Flynn, star of sitcoms Scrubs and The Middle, sat down with The AV Club for an interview today, in which he talked about his early days as […]
    By Bradford Evans
  12. Improv’s Babel: Defining the Game of the SceneInterviews by Matt Visconage. Improv was doomed with a semantics crisis from the start. When long-form improvisation began to flourish as its […]
    By Erik Voss
  13. Bill Murray Tried to Make an Improvised Movie in 1984Will Harris over at The A.V. Club has a great interview with actress Jami Gertz today. Gertz was one of the stars of Anne Beatts’s short-lived, […]
    By Bradford Evans
  14. Meeting the Guru of Longform Improv in ‘The Delmonic Interviews’It’s no secret that sometimes comedy is taken a bit too seriously. Comedy obsessives love not just the jokes, but the mechanics and emotions of […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  15. Bill Murray Discusses Del Close; Is The BestBill Murray has always kept the media and Hollywood at a distance. Besides, regularly losing roles because he doesn’t return phone calls, he […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  16. Talking to Charna Halpern About Working with Del Close to Create Longform […]On paper, Charna Halpern is intimidating. Really intimidating. Through her partnership with Del Close, she co-founded ImprovOlympic, developed […]
    By Deidre Ann Davis
  17. Talking Del Close and the Early Days of Chicago Improv with SNL’s Alex BazeThis is the first in a series of columns and interviews in which I’ll examine improv comedy and how it affects the comedy scene in general. I’m […]
    By Will Hines
  18. One Hour of Poehler & Lynch and One Tragically Unreleased Movie Trailer An hour of Amy Poehler and Jane Lynch chatting would be worth it no matter what they’re talking about, but if they’re talking about Amy’s […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  19. The Lost Projects of Harold RamisWhile Harold Ramis isn’t quite a household name, he absolutely should be. As a writer/director, the man shaped the big screen personas of Bill […]
    By Bradford Evans
  20. Watch a Recently Unearthed 1986 Interview with Improv Godfather Del CloseHere’s a recently unearthed gem: it’s an interview with Del Close from Chicago public access TV in 1986 done by current Conan writer Brian […]
    By Adam Frucci