Conan and Comedy Central's IAN ABRAMSON!
Conan and Comedy Central's IAN ABRAMSON!
We're looking forward to another off-the-wall weekend of laughs with one of the most imaginative comics in the world!
Ian Abramson is from Moreno Valley, California, where he learned to walk, read and drive, but not in that order. He studied theater at California State University Channel Islands, which isn’t on an island, but has been converted from an old mental hospital, so it’s isolated in its own way. While at school he took as many performance and writing classes as he could and, after trying stand-up at a couple of campus open mics, he decided to start writing comedy. When he finished school, he briefly lived in Orange County, doing stand-up and preparing to move to Chicago, where he felt he’d get the best training to begin his career.
When he moved to Chicago, he began taking improv classes at The Second City and iO Theatre, as well as continuing to do stand-up regularly. He also began co-creating web series for Tom Snyder of Dr. Katz, making over 50 weekly episodes total over the course of a year and a half. He flew out to Boston to provide a voice over for an episode of Tom Snyder’s “Explosion Bus,” featured alongside Daryl Hall of “Hall and Oates.” After about eight months in Chicago Ian decided to focus on stand-up over improv as he liked the process of writing and refining live comedy. His stand-up has evolved into a mix of precise wordplay, longer emotionally absurd jokes and larger conceptual pieces. He is also known for producing events he insists are not comedy shows such as “A Funeral for a Prop Comic” and “A Court Case for a Young Comedian,” and is a regular contributor for “the Onion.”
In the past few years, Ian has performed at the Oddball Comedy Festival, UP Comedy Club, Milwaukee’s Comedy Cafe, The Lincoln Lodge and even recently brought his show “Seven Minutes in Purgatory” to Atlanta’s Laughing Skull. “Seven Minutes in Purgatory” is a show where comedians perform to a camera in one room while the audience watches in another room so that the comedians have no idea how they are doing. Because of shows like this, as well as his approach to stand-up, Ian was recently named the “Best Experimental Comedian” by Chicago magazine, which also listed him as one of the “16 Comedians You Should See This Fall” in a different article.
He's also performed a wildly-experimental set on "CONAN" and several episodes of his "7 Minutes in Purgatory" on Comedy Central!
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It's going to be a super fun night with one of the most "experimental" comics in the country! Check out the appearance Ian Abramson made on CONAN. It was SHOCKING! :)
VIP SEATS are the 40 closest seats to the stage in a room that seats 200. Grab them while you can!
You can arrive for your show up to an hour before the scheduled showtime.
We open the lounge an hour before the first show of the night and remain open up to one hour after the last show of the day ends.
Parking is available in front of the club and to the east and west of the building.
There's Butch's pizza and garlic cheese bread, popcorn and chips available for snacking.
Come set for a WILD night of laughs!
We're looking forward to another off-the-wall weekend of laughs with one of the most imaginative comics in the world!
Ian Abramson is from Moreno Valley, California, where he learned to walk, read and drive, but not in that order. He studied theater at California State University Channel Islands, which isn’t on an island, but has been converted from an old mental hospital, so it’s isolated in its own way. While at school he took as many performance and writing classes as he could and, after trying stand-up at a couple of campus open mics, he decided to start writing comedy. When he finished school, he briefly lived in Orange County, doing stand-up and preparing to move to Chicago, where he felt he’d get the best training to begin his career.
When he moved to Chicago, he began taking improv classes at The Second City and iO Theatre, as well as continuing to do stand-up regularly. He also began co-creating web series for Tom Snyder of Dr. Katz, making over 50 weekly episodes total over the course of a year and a half. He flew out to Boston to provide a voice over for an episode of Tom Snyder’s “Explosion Bus,” featured alongside Daryl Hall of “Hall and Oates.” After about eight months in Chicago Ian decided to focus on stand-up over improv as he liked the process of writing and refining live comedy. His stand-up has evolved into a mix of precise wordplay, longer emotionally absurd jokes and larger conceptual pieces. He is also known for producing events he insists are not comedy shows such as “A Funeral for a Prop Comic” and “A Court Case for a Young Comedian,” and is a regular contributor for “the Onion.”
In the past few years, Ian has performed at the Oddball Comedy Festival, UP Comedy Club, Milwaukee’s Comedy Cafe, The Lincoln Lodge and even recently brought his show “Seven Minutes in Purgatory” to Atlanta’s Laughing Skull. “Seven Minutes in Purgatory” is a show where comedians perform to a camera in one room while the audience watches in another room so that the comedians have no idea how they are doing. Because of shows like this, as well as his approach to stand-up, Ian was recently named the “Best Experimental Comedian” by Chicago magazine, which also listed him as one of the “16 Comedians You Should See This Fall” in a different article.
He's also performed a wildly-experimental set on "CONAN" and several episodes of his "7 Minutes in Purgatory" on Comedy Central!