January 31 was one of those Chicago nights where you question every life choice on the walk over — and then immediately forget the cold the second you’re inside. Yarnmaze leaned into that energy hard: first-timers vs. returning hecklers, permission to get loud, and comics who were willing to spar with the room instead of powering through canned bits. The heckles warmed up fast, the comics kept pivoting, and by the time the closer hit, it felt less like “a lineup of sets” and more like the whole room was doing the show together.
⭐ Highlight: “Nona Lee closed it out by clocking the haunted-house crew up front and turning it into a running thread — the kind of “only happens in this room on a freezing night” crowd-work chain reaction where every little audience noise becomes part of the punchline.”
