The Thursday Show: Chicago’s Funniest Comedians with New Jokes! August 20, 2026

Chicago’s best touring comics working out new material at home!

Welcome to funniest comedy night at The Lincoln Lodge – not an open mic, not a Netflix taping, just Chicago’s best touring comics working out untested material at home. See pros find a new punchline, and hear the jokes before they’re The Famous Jokes. Leave knowing you saw it first, or that they “should probably never say that again”.