Free Download Vince Vieceli, "Stand-Up Comedy in Chicago" English | ISBN: 1531669441 | 2014 | 130 pages | EPUB | 16 MB Ten years after Chicago saw its first full-time comedy club open, the landscape was decidedly different. "Stand-up comedy has exploded in the last couple of years," a club owner told the Chicago Tribune in 1985, "that's the only way to describe it: exploded." It was truly a comedy boom, with as many as 16 clubs operating at once, and it lasted