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5. Follow up with your comedian as often as you need to. Some stand up comedians perform comedy shows which may or may not be appropriate for your audience.

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Illinois Comedians

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1. Don Tersigni

(49 Reviews)

Location:: Chicago, Illinois
Pay Range:: $750-$3500 per event
Member Since:: 2006
Category:: Comedian Illinois

COMEDY WINNER OF ED MCMAHON'S "NEXT BIG STAR" TV SHOW! Side splitting clean stand-up comedy, dead on celebrity voice impressions (Stallone, Arnold, Clint, Homer Simpson, etc) Vegas style song impersonations of Elvis, Dean Martin, Johnny Cash, Louis Armstrong among others.....and His ability to EMCEE any event and connect with any crowd is extraordinary.... more

2. Jeff Havens with Uncrapify You...

(26 Reviews)

Location:: Chicago, Illinois
Pay Range:: $1400-$3000 per event
Member Since:: 2006
Category:: Comedian Illinois

World-rewowned super-guru Jeff Havens delivers an award-winning laugh-out-loud hour guaranteed to leave your audience feeling better than they have in years. With the invention of the award-winning Uncrapify Your Life! series of keynote speeches, Jeff Havens has turned the entire professional speaking world on its head. By encouraging his audiences ... more

3. Rex Havens

(11 Reviews)

Location:: Chicago, Illinois
Pay Range:: $1000-$3000 per event
Member Since:: 2004
Category:: Comedian Illinois

A star of the one-man show, 'Everything I Needed To Know I Learned From My Wife!' Men, women, marriage, and family at their laugh-out-loud best. Clean, original, and completely funny. Perfect for spouses-included events, and all ages from 9-90. Appeared on Showtime, Comedy Central and Comic Relief. Over 1,000 private and corporate clients. Nationa... more

4. Darren Marlar

(2 Reviews)

Location:: Chicago, Illinois
Pay Range:: $500-$2500 per event
Member Since:: 2009
Category:: Comedian Illinois

Darren Marlar is one of the fastest growing family-friendly comedians in the business. Onstage Darren covers a variety of subjects like growing up as a redhead, marriage, parents, in-laws, and finds humor in the day-to-day things of life like children’s bedtime stories, growing older and using a GPS. Darren is also a syndicated radio show personality,... more

5. Harris Kal

(17 Reviews)

Location:: Vernon Hills, Illinois
Pay Range:: $300-$3000 per event
Member Since:: 2007
Category:: Comedian Illinois

Harris specializes in energizing everyone for a FUNtabulous time at your special family or corporate event. Harris is known throughout the Chicagoland area as the Gamemaster and President of FUN! Harris' many interactive Game Shows gets ‘em up and movin’ with games such as Musical Madness and The Wacky Relays & Goofy Games Show. His Uncanny Regis Fi... more

6. Jason Cooper

(1 Reviews)

Location:: Chicago, Illinois
Pay Range:: $500-$1800 per event
Member Since:: 2009
Category:: Comedian Illinois

Jason Cooper (stand up comedian) A comedian with some edge, but still able to work corporate clean! Biography & Credits: With his quick wit and commanding stage presence Jason takes his audience on a roller coaster ride of laughs from the word go. Incorporating a barrage of past and present “pop culture' references, zany stories, and off the wa... more

7. Paul Frisbie

(20 Reviews)

Location:: Chicago, Illinois
Pay Range:: $600-$4000 per event
Member Since:: 2005
Category:: Comedian Illinois

You've heard Paul Frisbie on the radio, you've seen him on TV, and you can see him in person at your own event. Paul's standup act is intelligent, original and sometimes musical -- Frisbie usually includes a few funny original songs and song parodies -- and the Chicago Tribune has said that "Paul Frisbie is funny even when he's not performing." Pa... more

8. Jeb Cadwell

(1 Reviews)

Location:: Chicago, Illinois
Pay Range:: $150-$800 per event
Member Since:: 2008
Category:: Comedian Illinois

Jeb can work clean or "blue", and can relate to married couples, young singles, college students, blue collar workers, geeks and hippies. Currently, Jeb hosts a bi-monthly program for Comcast On Demand, "Open Mic On Demand." Jeb has recently completed his record breaking, "Overdrive Tour." 400 Stand-up comedy shows in fewer than 10 months. These... more

9. Rick March

(7 Reviews)

Location:: Highland Park, Illinois
Pay Range:: $500-$10000 per event
Member Since:: 2004
Category:: Comedian Illinois

I am a 48 year old comic with Jewish upbringing, Mobster ethics and an IQ of 160. I'll make fun of anything starting with myself and be as clean as the corporation requires. We are experts in the art of COMEDY ROASTS and perform them around the world. We also can arrange Karaoeke and light shows along with comedy. You want crazy, sarcastic, sw... more

10. Jason Huneke

(4 Reviews)

Location:: Chicago, Illinois
Pay Range:: $500-$2000 per event
Member Since:: 2006
Category:: Comedian Illinois

Jason has performed his Clean Comedy Show in Every Major US City, on NBC's Americas Got Talent, and has shared stages with Jars of Clay, Caedmon’s Call and The Robbie Seay Band. Jason is a Headliner on Carnival Cruise Lines, and Companies such as Harley Davidson, Disney, Bayer, Pfizer, Hormel and Purina all agree, Jason’s Live Show Rocks! For Latest... more

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