Joe McAdam at saki 1/9/14

Joe McAdam returned to Chicago and presented his show, "LA Failure" at saki, with Nick, Goodrich, a boatload of characters, and guests American Badass LOL, and Spiderman.

Here's the whole Flickr set: Joe McAdam at saki 1/9/14

Joe ponders the mysteries of the Universe in a radiant moment.

American Badass LOL returns at Spiderman

(photos by pkmonaghan)

Fundraiser Happening TONIGHT!

You already know that Freak Happening is a great, fun time; a parade of weird goofs and silly guffaws unrivaled in Chicago. This Friday, the November edition of Freak Happening takes flight and will, for one night only, also function as a fundraiser for Team Rubicon's Operation: Honest Abe project.

Team Rubicon was founded by retired marines and specializes in deploying emergency response teams to disaster-stricken areas. Operation: Honest Abe is an effort to rebuild the hardest-hit areas of the Chicagoland area by this past weekend's rash of tornadoes/storms.

The fundraiser has been organzied by the amazing Kris Simmons, a Chicago-based comedian and great person. We'll be taking donations, as well as raffling off a saki gift certificate, a bottle of bourbon, restaurant gift certificates, and other exciting prizes!

All this, plus the usual insanity from hosts Goodrich Gevaart and Nick Rouley, plus standup comedy and other weirdness from Candy Lawrence, Caitlin Bergh, Cameron Gillette, and Sonia Denis!

F R E A K  H A P P E N I N G

Friday, November 22nd

7:30pm

byob/all ages

bring money to donate if you can!

Freak Happening makes Black Friday come early this year!

Nick Rouley and Goodrich Gevaart's monthly fun time Freak Happening comes one week early this month!

Standup comedy and other weirdness from Candy Lawrence, Caitlin Bergh, Cameron Gillette, and Sonia Denis!

GET TRVE KVLT FOR FRE∆K H∆PPENING'S BL∆CK FRID∆Y

Friday, November 22nd
7:30pm
BYOB

Nick and his puppy made a promo video for this month's show too!

FREAK HAPPENING presents Little Record Shop of Maximum Carnage TONIGHT!

Chicago comedians Nicholas Rouley and Goodrich Gevaart have cooked up a sweet and spicy little baby and called it Freak Happening's Little Record Shop of Maximum Carnage. Strap in and put your helmet on, because you're in for very spooky night of undead comedy!

Guests include
The Puterbaugh Sisters
Sean White
John Eisenrich
Jason Earl Folks
Chad Briggs
and other special creepy guests!

TONIGHT
7:30pm
free
BYOB

C.J. Toledano presents Everybody's Haunted Part Boo!

Our friend and former Chicagoan C.J. Toledano (Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, The Soup Investigates) presents a one-night-only parade of comedy dumbness this Halloween!

C.J. Toledano
Marty Derosa
John Eisenrich
Charlie Bury
Trey Brown
Marlena Rodriguez
AJ Conover
Hosted by Trevor Martin & Conor Sullivan

7:30pm
Thursday, October 31st
Free/All Ages/BYOB

Once In A Lifetime presents DEVIL'S DIARY: A MIDNIGHT SCREENING!

Once in a Lifetime, a comedy show/movie night presented by saki and Everything is Terrible, celebrates the horrifying world of Lifetime Original Movies. Each month, some of our favorite comedians will provide commentary over the screening of a made-for-Lifetime movie.

This month's lineup features OIAL favorites Natalie Jose, The Puterbaugh Sisters, and Jeff Steinbrunner. What a silly quartet!

Surging out of Canada like the unholy offspring of Death Note and The Craft, the Lifetime horror move Devil’s Diary (2007) shows what happens when two teen witches find a supernatural journal in a graveyard. "The book" turns out to have the power to make any wish written in it come true, resulting in murder, mayhem and a whole lot of kohl eyeliner. And that’s before the cheerleaders get ahold of it!

In addition to other exciting food and drink specials, Lincoln Hall will, once again, be running the wildly popular $3 white wine spritzer special for all you cool moms out there!

Saturday October 19th

MIDNIGHT

$5

18+

Lincoln Hall

FREAK HAPPENING presents Little Record Shop of Maximum Carnage - This Friday!

Senorita Weiner's Top Secret Humor Experiment and Ice Cream Social Club!

Just over a year ago, Adam and I stumbled out of AV Fest shortly after Archers of Loaf's headlining set, and headed south on Ashland towards Cobra Lounge for the debut of a new standup showcase produced by two local comedy giants, Junior Stopka and Mike Lebovitz. Being a sucker for gimmicks, I was immediately won over by the concept behind Señorita Weiner: when the comedy show ends, the entire audience gets free ice cream sundaes.

Since that first date at Cobra Lounge, Señorita Weiner's Top Secret Humor Experiment and Ice Cream Social Club has traveled to a few more of saki's favorite places in Chicago, like the Empty Bottle and Bucket O'Blood. We were lucky enough to be approached by Junior a few months ago about hosting the Señorita here at saki. Being fans of both comedy AND ice cream, we were happy to oblige!

For those who might not be familiar with the two producers, Junior recently finished a tour of the Southeast with Doug Stanhope (and also did probably my favorite set of the 5 Creative Control shows at saki), and Mike's a producer at one of the city's best-run local comedy showcases, Comedians You Should Know. In a preview of a past SW event, Junior and Mike were christened by the Chicago Reader as "two of the scene's most unabashedly bizzarre performers."

The show is this Friday, September 21st at 8pm. In addition to sets from Stopka and Lebovitz, local humorists Liza Treyger (whose Creative Control appearance a few months back absolutely wrecked me) and Charlie Bury, who you may know from being very funny at The Lincoln Lodge and as a part of the staff on The Late Live Show.

You might have noticed that the last word in the show's long-form title is "Club." You might be asking yourself "What is this club and how do I join it?" or "What are the stipulations of joining said club?" or "Are there any barriers to entry?" Here are the answers: it's mostly just a mailing list but there are other hidden perks, too!; go to senoritaweiner.com and enter your name and email address; there are none, I guess; no, there aren't.

Once again:

Senorita Weiner's Top Secret Humor Experiment and Ice Cream Social Club!

featuring standup comedy from

Junior Stopka

Mike Lebovitz

Liza Treyger

Charlie Bury

plus free a ice cream sundae party afterwards!

8pm.

Friday 9/21/12

Free (but bring $5 to donate to the performers, they deserve it)

All Ages