The Reader-sponsored Tomorrow Never Knows music festival is expanding into comedy for the first time this year, and Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac is one of the headliners along with Todd Barry and Chicago’s own Hannibal Buress. (Three other local funnypeople will be opening for Cenac at his two sold-out shows: Cameron Esposito, Tony Mendoza, and Gabe Wallace.) Cenac’s fake reporting is strong, but the former King of the Hill writer is funny off-camera, too.
That’s good. But mild by Chicago standards is probably a blizzard anywhere else.
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How’d the Pitchfork gig go?
You’ve got some great stories. Would you share the one about Jeffrey Jones, the actor who played the high school principal in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and got in trouble later for taking dirty pictures of a 14-year-old boy?
I don’t even remember what the play was about because the whole time I was freaking out that Jeffrey Jones is two rows in front of me and I feel like I need to say something. There’s a fucking guy who’s been arrested for child porn looking at a bunch of children—and they were doing an adult play, like it wasn’t a child’s play. It had to do with religion, it was something serious.
Sat 1/14, 9 and 11 PM, 1354 W. Wabansia, Hideout, 773-227-4433, hideoutchicago.com, $20, sold out. 21+
