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Conan O’Brien Cites Wrigleyville in Vanity Fair Article
Comedy giant Conan O'Brien talks about "How Humor Will Take Over" in his latest Vanity Fair contribution, and he says it all started in Wrigleyville.
He may be talking about the dystopian future of comedy, but in comedy legend Conan O’Brien’s latest article written for Vanity Fair, he randomly cites an apartment in Wrigleyville as the potential birthplace for the end of it all.
The piece begins:
We may never know exactly how the horror began. Some historians trace the scourge all the way back to 1992, to a cheap apartment in the Wrigleyville section of Chicago’s North Side. Three bored, slightly entitled college graduates and a woman named Chloe who had briefly dated two of them decided it would be harmless fun to start an “alternative” improv group called Room for Improv-ment.
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Hooked? Interested in reading more? Check out his contribution on Vanity Fair titled “The United States of Comedy: 2035.”
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