With a smallish crowd (pesky holidays!), the show leaned into intimate, riffy energy. Yarnmaze opened by basically daring the room to participate, then veered into “my body is falling apart” bits and playful rule-setting. Orly K.G. followed with confident crowd work and marriage/kids material that kept landing even without big heckles. Vickram Balaji delivered sharp one-liners on family, travel, and bargain-basement lodging nightmares. Co-producer Katie Mark mixed life-in-Chicago updates with haunted house construction details and a doomed seance that cost real money. Brad Kofman worked the room with relationship/divorce observations and travel riffs — and then Subbah Agarwal came in to close stacking smart social commentary with gross-out specifics.
⭐ Highlight: “Subhah Agarwal’s closer was a standout — fearless, surgical, and weirdly relatable, especially when DIY medicine and modern life spiraled into comedy rage.”
