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Stand-up Thu Jun 18 2009

Beloved Comedy Goddess Comes to Town

Anyone who has popped onto jezebel.com or a similar lady-centric site in the past few months is probably familiar with Sarah Haskins. Haskins is the genius behind Target Women, a hilarious snark-heavy Current TV series that tackles the most infuriating types of female-centric advertising and broadcasting. This weekend Haskins will be bringing some of that hilarity back to Chicago (she's a Second City and iO alum) as part of the Just for Laughs festival.

Haskins will be performing with improv group American Dream on Friday night at 10 pm at the Playground, and again with beloved late night sketch show The Late Night Late Show on Saturday at Midnight at iO.

Tickets can be purchased on the Just For Laughs website here.


And here's one of my favorite Target Women pieces, where Sarah Haskins worries about the safety of Ann Curry:

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