CGs Comedy Club – Chicago, Illinois
CG's Comedy Club is located in The Bolingbrook Promenade. Come out and see the best comedians in Chicago, Illinois who come from all over the United States to entertain our crowds.You can get tickets to our shows at cgscomedyclub.com
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AARON FOSTER
Winner of Chicago Readers- Best Comic (RU) 2014, the same year Chicago was named -Funniest City in The United Stated (USA Today Newspaper). A native Chicagoan who spent his youth on both the north and south sides of the city, Aaron Foster later graduated from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana with a BA. and as a member of Kappa Alpha Psi, inc. Presently a touring headliner for many concerts, colleges and clubs. Aaron discovered his love for comedy as an employee of the nationally recognized- All Jokes Aside Comedy Club and has performed in as many as 45 of the 50 states as well as three international countries.
Aaron Foster is host and Co- Producer of The Biggest Stand- up Comedy Show in Chicago- The Nasty Show. The Nasty Show is every Saturday in The World Famous Laugh Factory- Winner of Chicago Readers- Best Comedy Club -2014. Aaron Foster is a very original and edgy stand-up comic. A past co- producer and Co- Host of MANCOW TV and Radio from Chicago and syndicated in up to 76 markets internationally. In 2013 Aaron was a contributing writer for W. Kumau Bell. In 2014, Aaron performed well as a guest host on WGCI Radio Chicago.
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Winner of Chicago Readers- Best Comic (RU) 2014, the same year Chicago was named -Funniest City in The United Stated (USA Today Newspaper). A native Chicagoan who spent his youth on both the north and south sides of the city, Aaron Foster later graduated from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana with a BA. and as a member of Kappa Alpha Psi, inc. Presently a touring headliner for many concerts, colleges and clubs. Aaron discovered his love for comedy as an employee of the nationally recognized- All Jokes Aside Comedy Club and has performed in as many as 45 of the 50 states as well as three international countries.
Aaron Foster is host and Co- Producer of The Biggest Stand- up Comedy Show in Chicago- The Nasty Show. The Nasty Show is every Saturday in The World Famous Laugh Factory- Winner of Chicago Readers- Best Comedy Club -2014. Aaron Foster is a very original and edgy stand-up comic. A past co- producer of MANCOW TV in Chicago and syndicated, also a contributing writer for W. Kumau Bell. If you like your stand-up comedy with a bite think Mike Tyson and you get Aaron Foster. There is no topic this comic will not deal with and no joke too fresh or new or cutting for this guy. In a world where too many so-called edgy comics are just hacks who use the f word to cover up unoriginal material this guy uses his sharp mind to shred whatever catches his interest, even if this is sometimes his own life. Producer of the World Acclaimed “We Love Obama Comedy Tour” Aaron has the ability to produce any tour in your venue.
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Winner of Chicago Readers- Best Comic (RU) 2014, the same year Chicago was named -Funniest City in The United Stated (USA Today Newspaper). A native Chicagoan who spent his youth on both the north and south sides of the city, Aaron Foster later graduated from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana with a BA. and as a member of Kappa Alpha Psi, inc. Presently a touring headliner for many concerts, colleges and clubs. Aaron discovered his love for comedy as an employee of the nationally recognized- All Jokes Aside Comedy Club and has performed in as many as 45 of the 50 states as well as three international countries.
Aaron Foster is host and Co- Producer of The Biggest Stand- up Comedy Show in Chicago- The Nasty Show. The Nasty Show is every Saturday in The World Famous Laugh Factory- Winner of Chicago Readers- Best Comedy Club -2014. Aaron Foster is a very original and edgy stand-up comic. A past co- producer of MANCOW TV in Chicago and syndicated, also a contributing writer for W. Kumau Bell. If you like your stand-up comedy with a bite think Mike Tyson and you get Aaron Foster. There is no topic this comic will not deal with and no joke too fresh or new or cutting for this guy. In a world where too many so-called edgy comics are just hacks who use the f word to cover up unoriginal material this guy uses his sharp mind to shred whatever catches his interest, even if this is sometimes his own life. Producer of the World Acclaimed “We Love Obama Comedy Tour” Aaron has the ability to produce any tour in your venue
Actor Comedian Kelly Perine Tells His Story About Being Bullied!
My Life My Power, the Premier Anti-Bullying & Youth Development Program Presents: Kelly Perine, an American television actor and a comedian. Perine attended Lake Forest Academy near Chicago, Illinois, where he studied stage acting. He spent his undergraduate years at Pomona College in Claremont, California. After graduating, he studied at the University of California, Irvine where he continued his studies in Fine Arts.
Perine began his career performing as a stand-up comedian at various comedy clubs in the United States. He has appeared in many television commercials, and has had bit parts in numerous sitcoms, including 21 Jump Street, Seinfeld, The Drew Carey Show, Coach, Mad About You, Living Single, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Malcolm & Eddie, The Steve Harvey Show, The Hughleys, How I Met Your Mother, True Jackson, VP, Austin & Ally and The Bernie Mac Show. Perine had regular roles in the sitcoms Between Brothers where he played Dustin Dusty Q. Canyon, The Parent 'Hood where he played Kelly Peterson, and One on One which he portrayed Duane Odell Knox, from seasons 1 to 4, and has made appearances in numerous independent films like Convincing Clooney where he played the role of Disco. He starred in the MyNetworkTV comedy Under One Roof where he played Winston Hill. In 2001, Perine appeared in the Motel 6 commercial.
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The Robin Williams Biography (1951 - 2014) - HD Documentary
Robin McLaurin Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 21, 1951. After his family moved to Marin County, Williams began his career doing stand-up comedy shows in the San Francisco Bay Area in the mid-1970s. His first performance took place at the Holy City Zoo, a comedy club in San Francisco, where he worked his way up from tending bar to getting on stage. He moved to Los Angeles and continued doing stand-up shows at various clubs, including the Comedy Club, in 1977, where TV producer George Schlatter saw him. Schlatter, realizing that Williams would become an important force in show business, asked him to appear on a revival of his Laugh-In show. The show aired in late 1977 and became his debut TV appearance. Williams won a Grammy Award for the recording of his 1979 live show at the Copacabana in New York, Reality...What a Concept. The first film role credited to Robin Williams is a small part in the 1977 low-budget comedy Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses?. His first major break came from his starring role in director Barry Levinson's Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), which earned Williams a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. His performance in the role of a therapist in Good Will Hunting (1997) influenced some real therapists and won Williams an Academy Award. On August 11, 2014, Williams committed suicide at his home in Paradise Cay, California.
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Karen Lewis speaks before the City Club of Chicago
After a brain tumor canceled her mayoral run, Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, addresses the City Club of Chicago. | Richard A. Chapman/Sun-Times Media
Mean Girls: How Cady gets back Aaron.
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Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy film directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey. The film is partially based on Rosalind Wiseman's 2002 non-fiction self-help book, Queen Bees and Wannabes, which describes female high school social cliques and the damaging effects they can have on girls. Tina Fey also drew from her own experience at Upper Darby High School as an inspiration for some of the concepts in the film.
Sixteen-year-old homeschooled Cady Heron and her zoologist parents Betsy and Chip Heron return to the United States after a twelve-year research trip in Africa, settling in Evanston, Illinois. On her first day of attending a public school, North Shore High School, Cady meets new classmates Janis Ian and Damian. The next day, Janis and Damian educate Cady on the school's various cliques and warn her to avoid the most popular and infamous one, the Plastics. The Plastics are led by queen bee Regina George and include the insecure but rich Gretchen Weiners and sweet but dimwitted Karen Smith. The Plastics take an interest in Cady after rescuing her from a sexist classmate, and invite her to sit with them at lunch. Seeing that Cady is getting along with them, Janis devises a plan of revenge against Regina for a past slight, using Cady as the infiltrator.
Cady soon learns about The Burn Book, an old journal of Regina's that is filled with rumors, secrets, and insults about other girls and some teachers at school. After finding about The Burn Book Janis devises a plan to get back at Regina. Initially, Cady doesn't carry out Janis' scheme for ethical reasons, claiming that she thinks Regina is a good friend. Meanwhile, Cady becomes attracted to Regina's ex-boyfriend, Aaron Samuels, and purposely fails math in order to have an excuse to talk to Aaron. Regina jealously steals Aaron back at a Halloween party by kissing him in front of Cady. This spurs Cady to fully commit to Janis' plan to cut off Regina's resources. This involves breaking Regina and Aaron up, tricking Regina into eating Swedish nutrition bars that actually make her gain weight, and turning Regina's fellow Plastics against her. In the process, Cady unwittingly remakes herself in Regina's image, becoming spiteful and superficial, and abandons Janis and Damian.
When Regina is finally made aware of Cady's treachery, she retaliates by spreading the contents of the Burn Book all over the school, quickly inciting massive socially motivated brawls throughout the halls. To avoid suspicion, Regina inserts a fake label of herself in the book in order to blame Cady, Gretchen, and Karen, the only female juniors not mentioned in the book. Karen convinces the school's principal, Ron Duvall, that they did not write the book, who soon quells the fighting and gathers all of the junior girls in the gymnasium. Math teacher Ms. Norbury, whom the Burn Book defamed as a drug dealer, makes the girls face the ways they all treat each other and apologize to each other and the teachers; the plan sees success, as friendships are rekindled. When Janis' turn comes, she defies Ms. Norbury, confessing her plan to destroy Regina with Cady's help and openly mocking Regina. Pursued by an apologetic Cady, Regina storms out of the school and is struck by a school bus, breaking her spine.
Shunned by Aaron, grounded by her parents, and despised by her peers at school, Cady takes full blame for the Burn Book and becomes an outcast. After she makes amends with Regina, Cady's guilt soon dissolves, and she returns to her original personality. To make up for the math tests she failed, she joins the Mathletes in the state championship finals. Cady answers the tie-breaker correctly, and they win the championship for the school. At the Spring Fling dance, Regina's new boyfriend Shane Oman is elected King, while Cady is elected Queen. Onstage, Cady declares that all of her classmates are wonderful in their own way, snaps her plastic tiara, and distributes the pieces and throws them out to other girls in the crowd. She then reconciles with Janis, Damian, and Aaron, and reaches a truce with the Plastics.
The Plastics disband over summer vacation: Regina joins the lacrosse team to deal with her anger, Karen is the school weather reporter and Gretchen joins the Cool Asians clique. Aaron has graduated from high school and attends Northwestern University in Chicago. Janis has begun dating Mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, whom she initially disliked. As Cady reflects on the societal peace that has taken over North Shore High, a group of new Junior Plastics has arisen, and Cady imagines them being hit by a bus.
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Visit West Hollywood and the Sights and Sounds of Los Angeles
Weekend in the LA area staying in West Hollywood, visiting the sights and exploring West Hollywood. We stayed at the brand new Edition Hotel on Sunset. Visit rock & comedy and other clubs and check out other areas of LA like Beverly Hills and Hermosa Beach. Drone shots of downtown, the Hollywood sign and around LA
Dick Gregory wonderful quote (Rest In Peace) by filmmaker Keith O'Derek
This clip is from the documentary film, Straight from the streets when filmmaker Keith O'Derek interviewed Dick Gregory at the Million Man March in 1995.
Gregory began his career as a comedian while serving in the military in the mid-1950s. He served in the army for a year and a half at Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Lee in Virginia, and Fort Smith in Arkansas. He was drafted in 1954 while attending Southern Illinois University Carbondale. After being discharged in 1956 he returned to the university but did not receive a degree. With a desire to perform comedy professionally, he moved to Chicago.
In 1958, Gregory opened a nightclub called the Apex Club in Illinois. The club failed, landing Gregory in financial hardship. In 1959, Gregory landed a job as master of ceremonies at the Roberts Show Club.
Gregory performed as a comedian in small, primarily black-patronized nightclubs while working for the United States Postal Service during the daytime. He was one of the first black comedians to gain widespread acclaim performing for white audiences. In an interview with The Huffington Post, Gregory describes the history of black comics as limited: Blacks could sing and dance in the white night clubs but weren't allowed to stand flat-footed and talk to white folks, which is what a comic does.
In 1961, while working at the black-owned Roberts Show Bar in Chicago, he was spotted by Hugh Hefner performing the following material before a largely white audience:
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I understand there are a good many Southerners in the room tonight. I know the South very well. I spent twenty years there one night.
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant and this white waitress came up to me and said, We don't serve colored people here. I said, That's all right. I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
Then these three white boys came up to me and said, Boy, we're giving you fair warning. Anything you do to that chicken, we're gonna do to you. So I put down my knife and fork, I picked up that chicken and I kissed it. Then I said, Line up, boys!
Gregory attributed the launch of his career to Hugh Hefner, who watched him perform at Herman Roberts Show Bar. Based on that performance, Hefner hired Gregory to work at the Chicago Playboy Club as a replacement for comedian Professor Irwin Corey.
Gregory's first television appearance was on the late night show Tonight Starring Jack Paar.[6] He soon began appearing nationally and on television.
Early in Dick Gregory's career, he was offered an engagement on Tonight Starring Jack Paar. Paar's show was known for helping propel entertainers to the next level of their careers. At the time, black comics did perform on the show but were never asked to stay after their performances to sit on the famous couch and talk with the host. Dick Gregory declined the invitation to perform on the show several times until finally, Jack Paar called him to find out why he refused to perform on the show. Eventually, in order to have Gregory perform, the producers agreed to allow him to stay after his performance and talk with the host on air. This was a first in the show's history. Dick Gregory's interview on Tonight Starring Jack Paar spurred conversations across America.
Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, who broke barriers in the 1960s and became one of the first African-Americans to perform comedy at white clubs, died Saturday, August 19, 2017.
He was 84.
Gregory recently rescheduled an event in Atlanta because he was hospitalized. He died in Washington, his son posted on social media without giving details.
The family appreciates the outpouring of support and love, and respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very difficult time, Christian Gregory said. More details will be released over the next few days.
Gregory satirized segregation and racial injustice in his acts and was arrested several times in the 1960s for joining civil rights rallies.
He was relatively unknown until 1961, when the prestigious Playboy Club in Chicago asked him to fill in for comedian Irwin Corey one night. Rest In Peace Mr. Gregory, you will be missed.
Until that night, he said in a biography on his website, he had worked at small clubs filled with black audiences.
His gig as Corey's replacement was successful. After winning over a majority white audience that night, the Playboy Club offered him a three -year contract, turning him into a headline performer.
Mr. Gregory also ran for President of the United States and Mayor of Chicago.
The 1903 Iroquois Theater Fire - Chicago (HQ)
The Iroquois Theatre (Theater) Fire occurred on December 30, 1903, in Chicago, Illinois. It is the deadliest theater fire and the deadliest single-building fire in United States history. A total of 602 people died as a result of the fire.
The theatre had three audience levels. The main floor (known as the orchestra or parquet) was on the same level as the Foyer or Grand Stair Hall. The second level (the dress circle) and the third level (the gallery) were accessed through broad stairways that led off the foyer. The backstage areas were unusually large, with dressing rooms on five levels, an uncommonly large fly gallery (where scenery was hung), and even an elevator available to transport actors down to the stage level.
The Iroquois was Chicago's newest and most polished theater, built by architect Benjamin Marshall, who had studied many fires over the years and had tried to make this particular building as safe as possible. The Iroquois was designed in the image of a famous Paris opera house, and the four-story structure contained elaborates stained glass windows and polished wood. The lobby of the Iroquois had a sixty-foot high ceiling and marble walls, and Marshall had put in as many as twenty-five exits that supposedly would allow a capacity crowd to escape any problems in less than five minutes. A curtain made of asbestos was supposed to be present, one that could be lowered from above the stage to protect the audience in case of a fire that started there.
But common sense did not prevail when it came to the seats in the Iroquois Theater, as they were made of wood and stuffed with straw, making them extremely flammable. The fire equipment that was supposed to be installed never did make it into the Iroquois, which had no fire alarms at all. In the haste to get the theater open, many safety precautions were simply overlooked, and the combination would prove disastrous. December 30th was a very cold day in the Windy City, and the Iroquois was packed for a showing of the popular comedy Mr. Bluebeard. Since it was the Christmas break, there were over 2,000 people in attendance, many of them children, with another 400 actors and stagehands behind the scenes. One of those actors was the famous vaudeville performer Eddie Foy.
At around twenty after three during the afternoon one of the many suspended curtains that were used for scenery, painted with volatile oil paints, caught fire from one of the hot stage lights and the flames began to spread upwards. The audience thought that this was somehow part of the show for a while, and Foy came flying out of his make-up room and urged the crowd to be calm, reminding them time and again that the Iroquois was fireproof. The orchestra even began playing, and the crowd seemed to feel there was no threat, until a set that was ablaze came thundering down onto the stage. At this point Foy called for the asbestos curtain to be lowered to protect the audience until the fire could be controlled, but the devise failed to work properly, leaving a gap of some twenty feet between the bottom of the curtain and the stage for the fire to come through.
The actors and stagehands then panicked and headed for the rear exits as the audience finally figured out, too late, that the fire was unstoppable. As the flames spread, those backstage opened the rear doors to escape, and the air that rushed in turned the fire into an inferno. The delirious mass of people headed for any door that they could find, trampling one another and shoving and pushing in frightened hysteria. But the exit doors opened inward, and the crush of bodies against the people trying to open them did not allow them to do so. Also, many of the side doors were locked. The Iroquois was plunged into darkness as the lights went out, and the fire, fueled by the air coming in from the rear doors, exploded throughout the main auditorium.
When the fire company arrived, everything appeared normal, as there was no smoke coming out of the Iroquois Theater at first. But when they went into the building, they could not open the doors because of the bodies that were stacked against them. The death toll in the upper balconies was tremendous, as the fire escape supposedly leading down to the street a hundred feet below was found to be non-existent, leaving some to jump or fall to their death from the great height. As many as 150 people met their fate in this manner.
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In Memory of Dick Gregory (R.I.P) 2017
Richard Claxton Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) was an African American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. During the turbulent 1960s, Gregory became a pioneer in stand-up comedy for his no-holds-barred sets, in which he mocked bigotry and racism. He performed primarily to black audiences at segregated clubs until 1961, when he became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences, appearing on television and putting out comedy record albums.
Gregory was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Lucille and Presley Gregory.[3] At Sumner High School, he was aided by teachers, among them Warren St. James; he also excelled at running. Gregory earned a track scholarship to Southern Illinois University,[4] where he set school records as a half-miler and miler.[5] He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated. In 1954, his college career was interrupted for two years when he was drafted into the United States Army. At the urging of his commanding officer, who had taken notice of his penchant for joking, Gregory got his start in comedy in the Army, where he entered and won several talent shows. In 1956, Gregory briefly returned to SIU after his discharge, but dropped out because he felt that the university didn't want me to study, they wanted me to run.[6]
In the hopes of becoming a professional comedian, Gregory moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he became part of a new generation of black comedians that included Nipsey Russell, Bill Cosby, and Godfrey Cambridge, all of whom broke with the minstrel tradition that presented stereotypical black characters. Gregory drew on current events, especially racial issues, for much of his material: Segregation is not all bad. Have you ever heard of a collision where the people in the back of the bus got hurt?[7]
Gregory began his career as a comedian while serving in the military in the mid-1950s. He served in the Army for a year and a half at Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Lee in Virginia, and Fort Smith in Arkansas. He was drafted in 1954 while attending Southern Illinois University. After being discharged in 1956, he returned to the university but did not receive a degree. He moved to Chicago with a desire to perform comedy professionally.[7]
Gregory was at the forefront of political activism in the 1960s, when he protested the Vietnam War and racial injustice. He was arrested multiple times and went on many hunger strikes[2]. He later became a motivational speaker and author, primarily promoting spirituality.[1]
Gregory died of heart failure at a Washington, D.C. hospital at age 84 in August 2017.
The Strongest Frat in America
Caleb Pressley goes to Florida State University to expose the fraternity that is too jacked and what they do on a daily basis to stay jacked. This is the strongest Frat in America.
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Benny Hill - Benny's Quickies (1976)
Benny with Lorna Nathan bringing their own food into a restaurant and Henry as the waiter telling them not to do so. Henry, Eddie Buchanan & Jackie Wright contend with a fly in a restaurant, but Waiter Benny comes to their aid. Benny then recites a short little limerick. Benny (in drag) pregnant and Henry McGee as his father; Benny buying a bra with a bag on his head from Lorna Nathan; a starving Benny stealing Henry McGee's food in a cafeteria; Henry looking for directions from Jackie Wright; Benny allowing himself to be distracted from counting (in the office) when Terry Lucas bends over the file cabinet and limerick from Benny about his dogs.
Feb. 18, 1976 (recorded Nov. 21, 1975)
RIP Dick Gregory - The Legend's Last Bit of Wisdom
Richard Claxton Dick Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) was an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, comedian, conspiracy theorist, and occasional actor. During the turbulent 1960s, Gregory became a pioneer in stand-up comedy for his no-holds-barred sets, in which he mocked bigotry and racism. He primarily performed at segregated clubs to black audiences until 1961, when he became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences, appearing on television and putting out comedy record albums.
Gregory was at the forefront of political activism in the 1960s, protesting the Vietnam War and racial injustice. He was arrested multiple times and went on a hunger strike. He later became a motivational speaker and author, primarily promoting spirituality.
Gregory began his career as a comedian while serving in the military in the mid 1950s. He served in the army for a year and a half at Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Lee in Virginia, and Fort Smith in Arkansas. He was drafted in 1954 while attending Southern Illinois University Carbondale. After being discharged in 1956 he returned to the university but did not receive a degree. With a desire to perform comedy professionally, he moved to Chicago.
In 1958, Gregory opened a nightclub called the Apex Club in Illinois. The club failed, landing Gregory in financial hardship. In 1959, Gregory landed a job as master of ceremonies at the Roberts Show Club.
Gregory performed as a comedian in small, primarily black-patronized nightclubs, while working for the United States Postal Service during the daytime. He was one of the first black comedians to gain widespread acclaim performing for white audiences. In an interview with The Huffington Post, Gregory describes the history of black comics as limited: Blacks could sing and dance in the white night clubs but weren't allowed to stand flat-footed and talk to white folks, which is what a comic does.
In 1961, while working at the black-owned Roberts Show Bar in Chicago, he was spotted by Hugh Hefner performing the following material before a largely white audience:
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I understand there are a good many Southerners in the room tonight. I know the South very well. I spent twenty years there one night.
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant and this white waitress came up to me and said, We don't serve colored people here. I said, That's all right. I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
Then these three white boys came up to me and said, Boy, we're giving you fair warning. Anything you do to that chicken, we're gonna do to you. So I put down my knife and fork, I picked up that chicken and I kissed it. Then I said, Line up, boys!
Gregory attributed the launch of his career to Hefner who, based on that performance, hired Gregory to work at the Chicago Playboy Club as a replacement for comedian Professor Irwin Corey.
Gregory's first television appearance was on the late night show Tonight Starring Jack Paar. He soon began appearing nationally and on television.
Early in Dick Gregory's career, he was offered an engagement on Tonight Starring Jack Paar. Paar's show was known for helping propel entertainers to the next level of their careers. At the time, black comics did perform on the show, but were never asked to stay after their performances to sit on the famous couch and talk with the host. Dick Gregory declined the invitation to perform on the show several times until finally Paar called him to find out why he refused to perform on the show. Eventually, in order to have Gregory perform, the producers agreed to allow him to stay after his performance and talk with the host on air. This was a first in the show's history. Dick Gregory's interview on Tonight Starring Jack Paar spurred conversations across America.
In August 2017, Gregory died of heart failure at a Washington, D.C. hospital at age 84.
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From the towering skyscrapers of the Loop to the city's colorful mosaic of unique neighborhoods, Chicago buzzes with energy and excitement.
If you are looking for things to do in Chicago, look no further. Shop on The Magnificent Mile and ice skate in Millennium Park. Indoors, unwind at a leisurely pace at a luxurious spa; enjoy drinks with a view or dance the night away. In Chicago, dining is an activity in itself, with over 4,700 restaurants that line the culinary landscape and that boast star chefs and endless accolades.
Winter is ripe for arts and culture as well. Discover gallery districts or get lost in the Art Institute of Chicago, voted No. 1 Museum in the World. Immerse yourself in the vibrant theater scene at Steppenwolf, Goodman or Broadway in Chicago. And take in sensational performances — be it live music, comedy, ballet or opera.
Whether you're visiting for business or pleasure, you will find world-class dining, shopping, entertainment, and hotels and accommodations here in the largest and most-visited city in the Midwest.
At attractions around every corner, from high-flying observatories to Millennium Park where art and music mix with lots of room to play, you'll find fun every day of the year. And special events mean there's always something new to see. Grab your family and go!
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Detroiters Are Waging Paintball Wars As A Way To Stop Gang Violence (HBO)
Police in several cities across the U.S. are trying to put a stop to the groups of men waging paintball battles as a part of #PaintballsUpGunsDown — an anti-gun violence campaign police are calling misguided.
Detroit Police Chief James Craig said the #PaintballsUpGunsDown movement has gotten out of control and could backfire if officers mistake a paintball gun for a real firearm.
The grassroots movement first gained traction on social media in early April as a proposed way to resolve conflicts with paint instead of bullets. Since then, participants from Atlanta to Detroit have engaged in full blown paintball wars on city streets, with as many as 50 shooters taking aim at each other at once, hitting innocent bystanders and marking up cars and homes.
Over the last week, police in Detroit started making arrests for destruction of property. Paintballers say they're being targeted for being young and black and that cleaning up paint is a lot better than picking up dead bodies.
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