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Yuk of the Irish: A St. Patrick’s Day Comedy Special! Adam Burke, Kait Carmody & Alex Joyce Originally from the UK (by way of Australia…long story), Adam Burke has been performing comedy in Chicago and throughout the U.S. for almost two decades. He is a fixture headliner on showcases and clubs throughout the Midwest and beyond. He is a regular panelist on NPR’s popular comedy quiz show “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me,” and was a writer for WGN’s “Man of the People with Pat Tomasulo.” Voted Best Standup by readers of The Chicago Reader in 2014, he was also the winner of Second City’s Up Next Comedy Competition. He appeared at numerous festivals including Bridgetown Comedy Portland OR, Just for Laughs Chicago (four years running), and the local stage of Funny Or Die’s Oddball Comedy Festival. Burke has two debut albums through A Special Thing Records—”Universal Squirrel Theory” (2012) and... More

Yakov Smirnoff is a Soviet-American comedian, actor and writer. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in the Soviet Union, then immigrated to the United States in 1977 in order to pursue an American show business career, not yet knowing any English. He reached his biggest success in the mid-to-late 1980s, appearing in several films which include Moscow on the Hudson with Robin Williams, The Money Pit with Tom Hanks, Heartburn with Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, and Brewster’s Millions with Richard Pryor. He was a star of the television series What a Country! and was a recurring guest star on NBC’s hit television series Night Court playing the part of Yakov Korolenko. His comic persona was of a naive immigrant from the Soviet Union who was perpetually confused and delighted by life in the United States. His humor combined a mockery of life under Communist states and of... More