Formed in 1997, Schad began performing sketch comedy on Chicago’s north side. The troupe has since performed at countless venues around the world including The Goodman Theatre, The Second City, Steppenwolf, Lollapalooza, ImprovOlympic, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (LA), HERE (NYC) and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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Anecdote from a visit to Indianapolis this weekend: Lots of empty billboards between Chicago and Indy. Then on the 11PM news for local ABC, the lead story was how ABC’s own Extreme Home Makeover was coming to town. Not only was this the lead story – it went on for 10 minutes. 10 friggin minutes!!??!!! Then they went to commercial break.
There was one Ford commercial. And then 5 successive commericals about the “News Team”. “Weather Storm Watch Crew is the best in Indiana!” Stuff like that. But no revenue-generating commercials.
They returned to broadcast some news about a bank robbery – complete with footage from the police. In other words, ABC had only one crew and they were covering Extreme Home Makeover (e.g. themselves).
We are in for a world of hurt when our journalistic watchdogs have turned into synergistic self-promoters with no skills to ask the tough questions.
Hell yeah. Well said. We’re screwed when the aggregate sites can’t get any content so they just link to commercials. How fun will that be!
Yeah! Ken! Those Indianapolis reporters need to remember that we are counting on them to ask the tough questions, like . “How extreme will this home makeover be?!?!”
I’ve always been a big fan of the local Chicago news covering the events at which they were asked to present/speak. “Our own Jerry Taft stopped by the Kids with Cancer Marathon this weekend to present a Golden Apple to the Latino Chicago Public School winner.”
I am considering a new career in local politics at a non-NFL city. Because it is clear that there will be no journalistic watchdog to ask any questions while I loot the park district fund .
I poke fun at Chuck Goudy’s incessant “investigative” reports on 90-year old mob bosses who are incontinent or dead. But at least Chicago has a reporters. Some of these smaller cities get pork-belly prices, the weather, sports, and a program-ending feel-good story that they buy from a syndication service.