The Den Theatre today announced upcoming November 2024 shows, including Chelci Lynn and Paige Ginn’s ‘THE VIRAL PODCAST LIVE’ on November 7, Eugene Mirman on November 8, Hollywood Crime Scenes Podcast on November 8, Jeff Dye on November 9, Lewberger on November 11, Nate Meeker on November 14, Duncan Trussell on November 15 - 16, Sam Jay on November 17, Phil Hanley: Special Taping on November 22 - 23, Michael Ian Black on November 24, and Ryan Davis on November 30. These newly announced shows join a host of top talent appearing at the theatre’s Wicker Park stages at 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. throughout November, including Adam Ray on October 31 - November 1, Alignon Mitra on November 2, and Annie Lederman on November 3 (this show was rescheduled from previously announced October 23). Tickets are now on sale at www.thedentheatre.com or by calling (773) 697-3830.
Top Row (L-R): Chelci Lynn and Paige Ginn, co-hosts of ‘The Viral Podcast’, Eugene Mirman, Jeff Dye, Lewberger’s Keith Habersberger, Alex Lewis, and Hughie Stone Fish, and Nate Meeker. Bottom Row (L-R): Duncan Trussell, Sam Jay, Phil Hanley, Michael Ian Black, and Ryan Davis
Chelci Lynn and Paige Ginn: ‘THE VIRAL PODCAST’ LIVE
Saturday, November 7, 2024 at 7:15 p.m.
Tickets: $28 - $50; plus 30 meet & greet tickets sold as an add-on to the current ticket price for $100
Chelcie Lynn and Paige Ginn are comedians, not therapists, but they have a podcast, which is pretty much the same thing.
Chelcie Lynn is a comedian, actress, and internet personality extraordinaire. She started building a fan base in 2014 when her sketches featuring her alter ego, Trailer Trash Tammy, went viral. Her videos have since gained hundreds of millions of views across the internet, and she was named one of Variety’s Top 10 Comics to Watch in 2021. Chelcie’s hugely successful comedy touring career began with her sold-out inaugural stand-up tour, The Tammy Tour: One Trailer Park At A Time. She has also hosted the Tailgates & Tallboys festival in 2022 and 2023 and appeared at Netflix Is A Joke: The Festival. Chelcie’s acting work can be seen in the Duplass Brothers' feature film Tangerine, the digital series Coach Von Pidgeon for Funny or Die & Facebook Watch, as well as the feature film Sweet Dreams starring Johnny Knoxville, Mo Amer, and Kate Upton. Catch her live show in a city near you!
Paige Ginn is a Cauca-Asian gal known for pratfalls, creating art from farts, pranking the public, and co-hosting The Viral Podcast with Chelcie Lynn.
Eugene Mirman
Friday, November 8, 2024 at 7:15 p.m.
Tickets: $25 - $45
Eugene Mirman is a comedian, actor, and hero who lives somewhere in Massachusetts. He voices “Gene” on Fox’s Emmy Award-winning animated series Bob’s Burgers. He appeared regularly on HBO’s Flight of the Conchords, Adult Swim’s Delocated, Archer, and a bunch of other TV shows. He’s released several comedy albums and standup specials. Eugene is the co-founder of Pretty Good Friends Records, which puts out wonderful comedy albums and other fantastic things.
Some More Bio Information, if You Must Know
Comedian and actor Eugene Mirman immigrated from Moscow with his family at age 4. He grew up in Lexington, MA, attended Hampshire College where he designed his own Comedy major doing a one-hour stand-up set as his thesis, and has since gone on to a successful career on TV, stage, and film.
On TV, Eugene can currently be heard as the voice of Gene Belcher on FOX’s Emmy Award-winning Bob’s Burgers. He has appeared on many other TV shows including Flight of the Conchords, Delocated, Archer, Broad City, StarTalk, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, Inside Amy Schumer, Conan O’Brien, The Colbert Report, Late Night with Seth Myers, @midnight, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Home Movies and more. Eugene made his animated big screen debut with the theatrical release of The Bob's Burgers Movie and he can also be seen in the movie, Confess, Fletch.
As a stand-up, Eugene started his career in Boston before moving to New York where he was one of the kingpins in the city’s early alt-comedy scene. Eugene has two Comedy Central stand-up specials and his comedy special Vegan on His Way to the Complain Store is available for streaming. He has released five comedy albums, including his epic Sub Pop Records release I’m Sorry (You’re Welcome), which was made available in multiple formats including a 9-volume digital set, 7 LPs, 2 chairs, several robes, and one dog. This is true. As a touring headliner, Eugene has performed on stages around the world and at festivals including Edinburgh Fringe, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, SXSW, SF Sketchfest, JFL, and many more.
Along with Julie Smith Clem, Eugene co-founded the comedy production company Pretty Good Friends which began as a weekly comedy show in Brooklyn and grew into tours, large outdoor shows, TV and radio projects, and a comedy record label PGF Records. Out of these shows, Mirman and Clem also created the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival which started as a joke and became an annual institution in Brooklyn for 10 years. The festival also spawned the documentary film It Started As A Joke which chronicles the decade-long run of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, including a final farewell show. The film celebrates Eugene’s unique brand of humor and his role in the alternative comedy movement, offers a bittersweet goodbye to an era, and reminds us of the healing properties of comedy – even in the most challenging of life’s circumstances. The film includes interviews with Michael Ian Black, Kristen Schaal, Wyatt Cenac, Ira Glass, John Hodgman, Kumail Nanjiani, Reggie Watts, and Michael Showalter, along with performances by Janeane Garofalo, Jim Gaffigan, Jon Glaser, Mike Birbiglia, Bobcat Goldthwait, Michael Che and more. Hailed as "funny and elegiac" (The New York Times) and "a hidden history of alternative comedy” (The Moveable Fest), the film is available on most streaming platforms.
Hollywood Crime Scene Podcast
Friday, November 8, 2024 at 9:30 p.m.
Tickets: $22 - $42
Rachel Fisher and Desi Jedeikin host Hollywood Crime Scene, a podcast that discusses Hollywood true crime, scandals, LA history, and more! Join us as we travel beyond Hollywood to discuss the weird stories, local legends, and true crimes from your city.
Rachel Fisher lives in Los Angeles and co-hosts Hollywood Crime Scene and Bitchslap podcasts.
Desi Jedeikin is a writer living in Los Angeles. She co-hosts Hollywood Crime Scene and Bitchslap podcasts.
Jeff Dye
Saturday, November 9, 2024 at 7:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Tickets: $22 - $36
Jeff Dye is a nationally touring comedian, actor, and host. Jeff shot over 100 episodes of a new FOX game show called Who the Bleep is that? and is currently filming his new comedy special, The Last Cowboy in LA. Jeff starred in NBC's comedy adventure series Better Late Than Never and can be seen on episodes of I Can See Your Voice and The Masked Singer on Fox.
Dye has performed multiple times on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and has his own Comedy Central Presents special. In previous years, he has starred on numerous TV projects, including Money from Strangers, Girl Code, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, NBC's I Can Do That, Better Late Than Never, That bAwkward Game Show and numerous others. Jeff's last 2 albums Dumb is Gooder and Live from Madison is playing on Sirius XM and both are top 10 albums on the Billboard Comedy Charts. Jeff is a recurring guest on The Greg Gutfeld Show where he has received praise for his raw unfiltered comedic viewpoint, bringing a new style of edge and honesty. Dye's passion is bringing love and positivity through laughter WHILE maintaining truth to everyone he encounters.
Lewberger
Monday, November 11, 2024 at 7:15 p.m.
Tickets: $25 - $45
Lewberger is Keith Habersberger, Alex Lewis, and Hughie Stone Fish. This handsome 3-man comedy band based in Los Angeles, CA, got a standing ovation on America's Got Talent and were finalists on NBC’s Bring The Funny. Their viral songs have been heard by millions online and on TV and they've been described as the illegitimate love child of Lonely Island and Flight of the Conchords.
Lewberger has played clubs and colleges all over the country. Their latest comedy special Lewberger: Live at Lincoln Hall can be found on Amazon Prime, and their podcast Celebrity Theme Song can be heard on all streaming platforms.
Keith Habersberger is a member of internet sensations The Try Guys, boasting millions of subscribers and their own production company. Alex Lewis is an actor and comedian who can be seen on several TV shows and the movies All About Nina as well as the Valley Girl remake. Hughie Stone Fish is an Emmy Award-winning songwriter and a music producer/educator with a nonprofit bringing arts education to his hometown of Syracuse, New York.
Nate Meeker
Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 7:15 p.m.
Tickets: $22 - $40
Nate Meeker is a comedian and actor originally from Columbus, Ohio now based in New York and Los Angeles. Known for his sketch comedy and stand-up videos, he has gained over 940,000 followers on social media and his content has amassed more than 300 million views between TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. When on the road, Nate opens for Tim Dillon and has performed at renowned venues across the country including The Comedy Mothership, The Chicago Theatre, The Hollywood Improv, and more. Nate also performed at the 2023 SXSW festival in Austin, Texas and has headlined his own shows in New York City.
Duncan Trussell
Friday, November 15, 2024 at 7:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 7:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Tickets: $22 - $40
Duncan Trussell is a stand-up comedian, podcaster, and actor. He grew up in North Carolina and got a bachelor's degree in psychology from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC.
He inherited ten thousand dollars when his grandmother died and moved to LA imagining that the money would last for at least a year. Within a few months he’d spent much of his inheritance on LSD and synthesizers and was forced to get a job so he gave the Comedy Store a CD of prank calls he made in college and was awarded a job answering the phones.
It’s at The Comedy Store that he developed an irreverent stand-up act with a satanic puppet bit as his closer. This got him noticed by Joe Rogan who gave him his start in the world of stand-up comedy by taking him out on the road and allowing him to be his sidekick on the scy-fy network series Joe Rogan Questions Everything.
Duncan has performed standup at the famed Montreal Just for Laughs Festival and the Austin, TX Moontower Comedy Festival. Duncan wrote and performed on Fuel TV’s sketch show Stupidface, and guest starred on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Showtime’s La La Land, Fox’s MadTV, and Comedy Central’s Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time. Duncan also told a true story of a crazy acid trip on Comedy Central’s This Is Not Happening and he has appeared in 5 episodes of Comedy Central’s Emmy-nominated Drunk History and Cartoon Network’s Emmy-winning Adventure Time.
Duncan hopped on the podcasting bandwagon early and in 2010 started The Lavender Hour with his then-girlfriend Natasha Leggero, where they discussed deepish issues with comedians. When Duncan and Natasha split in 2012, he started his own podcast, The Duncan Trussell Family Hour.
The Duncan Trussell Family Hour has nearly 400 episodes and averages 1,000,000 downloads per month. The show features Duncan and comedians, outsiders, spiritual healers, and seekers discussing such topics as spirituality, consciousness, psychedelics, fringe theories, existentialism, and comedy. This podcast and the recordings within are the foundation of Duncan’s Netflix animated series The Midnight Gospel, which he co-created with Pendleton Ward, the Emmy-winning creator of Adventure Time.
Sam Jay
Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 7:15 p.m.
Tickets: $22 - $40
Stand-up comic, actor, and Emmy-nominated writer Sam Jay can currently be seen as the host of HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay, a weekly late-night series on which she also served as executive producer. Sam’s next stand-up special, Sam Jay: Salute Me or Shoot Me, will premiere on HBO on September 23rd.
She can currently be seen in her stand-out role opposite Jonah Hill, Eddie Murphy, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the Kenya Barris-directed feature film, You People, now streaming on Netflix. She can also be seen on the Peacock series Bust Down, which she co-created with co-stars Langston Kerman, Jak Knight, and Chris Redd. Sam is a two-time Emmy nominee and WGA award nominee for her writing on Saturday Night Live. In 2018, she wrote for The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards and the MTV Movie & TV Awards, and in 2020 she wrote for the BET Awards. Sam was named as one of Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch in 2018, and a Comedy Central Comic to Watch in 2015.
Earlier this year, Sam was named a BET Her Awards Pride Honoree. Sam was recently featured both on and off camera as the “Voice of God” announcer at the 2022 74th Primetime Emmy Awards on NBC. Earlier in the same year, Sam recorded a set as part of Netflix’s Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration, along with Margaret Cho, Sandra Bernhard, Billy Eichner, and Eddie Izzard—now streaming on Netflix. In 2020, Sam debuted her first one-hour stand-up special Sam Jay: 3 in the Morning on Netflix. In 2019, Sam made her Netflix debut on The Comedy Lineup and released her album Donna’s Daughter through Comedy Central Records. In 2017, Sam was a standout of the Just For Laughs: New Faces showcase; made her late-night debut on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!; and released her Comedy Central Presents half hour to rave reviews. Sam has performed internationally at comedy clubs and festivals including the Vodafone Dublin Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot Festival, 208 Comedy Festival, New York Comedy Festival, Portland’s Bridgetown Festival, The Laugh Your Asheville Off Comedy Festival, Boston’s Women In Comedy Festival, among others.
Sam’s TV credits include her hosting role on Ricking Morty, the Rick and Morty post-show on Adult Swim.
Additional TV credits include The Eric Andre Show; HBO Max’s That Damn Michael Che; MTV’s SafeWord; a recurring role on TV Land’s Nobodies; Starz’s Take My Wife, Comedy Central’s White Flight, Crank Yankers, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, and Broad City; and Viceland’s Party Legends and Flophouse.
Sam is originally from Boston and currently resides in New York.
Phil Hanley: Special Taping
Friday, November 22, 2024 at 7:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 7:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Tickets: $20 - $35
Originally from Vancouver, Phil Hanley is a stand-up, actor, and writer who's a regular at NYC’s renowned Comedy Cellar. He has performed stand-up on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Late Show, The Pete Holmes Show, and John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show on Comedy Central. His half-hour special can be seen on Comedy Central and iTunes.
Phil can be seen starring in the film Sundowners alongside Tim Heidecker and in Amy Schumer's I Feel Pretty. His album, Please Don’t Chit Chat While I’m Pursuing My Dream, was released in 2018.
Michael Ian Black
Sunday, November 24, 2024 at 7:15 p.m.
Tickets: $22 - $37
Michael Ian Black is an actor, writer, and comedian who began his career with the legendary sketch comedy troupe, The State. He then went on to co-create several television shows, including Viva Variety, Stella, and Michael & Michael Have Issues. For four years, he played Phil Stubbs on NBC’s Ed and has starred on many shows including Another Period, The Jim Gaffigan Show, and the Wet Hot American Summer franchise. He has appeared in many films including This is 40, Sextuplets, The Baxter, and Linoleum. Michael has written several screenplays, including Wedding Daze, starring Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher, which he directed, and Run, Fat Boy, Run starring Simon Pegg. Michael has authored many books including My Custom Van (and 50 Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face), You’re Not Doing It Right, and his most recent A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son. He is also the author of several award-winning books for children, including A Pig Parade Is A Terrible Idea, Chicken Cheeks, the I’m… series, and his satirical book, A Child’s First Book of Trump. Additionally, Michael has hosted several game shows including Trust Me I’m A Game Show Host (with DL Hughley), and Duck Quacks Don’t Echo on NatGeo. On the podcast front, Michael co-created and hosted How To Be Amazing, Topics (with Michael Showalter), and Mike and Tom Eat Snacks (with Tom Cavanagh). His current podcast project is called Obscure, in which he picks a work of classic literature, reads it aloud, and comments on it as he goes. Finally, Michael is an accomplished stand-up comedian who has released several albums and specials. He regularly tours the United States.
Ryan Davis
Saturday, November 30, 2024 at 7:15 p.m.
Tickets: $25 - $49
With rave reviews from fans and comedy insiders alike, Charlotte native Ryan Davis has become one of the country's best young stand-up comics. When not touring and doing what he does best on stage, Ryan lends his talents to acclaimed TV shows like HBO's All Def Comedy, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Issa Rae’s Insecure. He continues to give his growing fanbase more of his viral comedy that has amassed over 150 million minutes viewed online, establishing Ryan as a pioneer in the digital space. Lauded for his quick wit and infectious energy, Ryan has audiences roaring with his uncanny observations about life’s uncomfortable truths.
Previously announced appearances in November at The Den Theatre include:
Adam Ray
Thursday, October 31, 2024 at 7:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Friday, November 1, 2024 at 7:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Tickets: $22 - $40
Alignon Mitra
Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 7:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Tickets: $22 - $40
Annie Lederman
NEW: Sunday, November 3, 2024 at 7:15 p.m.
Moved from: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at 7:15 p.m.
Tickets: $23 - $35
About The Den Theatre
The Den Theatre opened in 2010 in the Wicker Park neighborhood with just a single theatre space. Now celebrating its thirteenth year, Co-owners Ryan Martin and Carol Cohen, along with their talented and dynamic staff, have developed The Den into a multi-level, live entertainment venue that boasts five intimate and unique theaters ranging from 50 – 300 seats. In addition, the first floor houses The Den Bar & Lounge – a full-service bar where audiences gather before and after performances to share a drink and commune with like-minded culture-hounds. Today, The Den is focused on providing world-class stand-up comedy and cultivating its first love – the theatre. The Den is home to four resident theatre companies including About Face Theatre, The Artistic Home, First Floor Theater and Haven. Hundreds of other companies, artists and comedians from Chicago and beyond have called The Den home – from national names to local stars, and The Den consistently plays host to a lineup of exciting and diverse talent. As a building created for interdisciplinary arts, The Den has accommodated a wide variety of programming, including plays, musicals, stand-up comedy, improv, dance, film screenings, seminars and speaking engagements. For additional information, visit www.thedentheatre.com.
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