Fuzzy Gerdes Performances

Montgomery and Cooke are “Happy to See You” — A variety show for everyone

My friends Becky Eldridge Jamie Buell play an Olde-Tyme comedy duo in the modern world—sort of like an updated Burns and Allen.

They have a bunch of wonderful guests who come do the show (including your pal Fuzzy Gerdes), they sing original songs, do a little dance, do some original sketch comedy and Becky plays a rusty trombone.

Thursdays in May (May 4, 11, 18 and 25) — I guest on the May 11 show, doing a dramatic reading.

Laugh Out Loud Theater
3851 N. Lincoln
Chicago, IL

Tickets are $15

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Your favorite performers from the hit TV show Steve Gadlin’s Star Makers will be live on stage as part of the Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival 2016.

Tickets: $10

Stage 773
1225 W Belmont
Chicago IL 60657

Scene Missing: CHICAG-G-G-GHOST STORIES

Erica and I will be performing 7 minutes of comedy based on a ghost movie in this evening of comedy based on ghost movies. Jen Ellison, Brendan Gardiner, and Kris Simmons will also perform.

Schubas, Upstairs
3159 N Southport, Chicago

*Photo of the Lancasters by Oomphotography

Erica and I will be returning as Mr. and Mrs. Lancaster (err, contra-respectively) in Alisa Rosenthal’s The Plucky Show. This is the final show of this run, so may be your last chance ever to see Mrs. Lancaster coach Plucky in the “The Big Move” and Mr. Lancaster prep Plucky in the fundamental theatrical art of elocution.

Tickets are $20, but because you’re my special friend you can use the code “pluckateer” for 2-for-1s, or if you get dinner at Irazu before the show and bring your receipt, you can see the show for $10.

The Plucky Show
Gorilla Tango Theatre
1919 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL

I’ll be hosting the eighth season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

I’ll be hosting the eighth season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

I’ll be hosting the eighth season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

I’ll be hosting the eighth season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

I’ll be hosting the eighth season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

I’ll be hosting the eighth season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

I’ll be hosting the eighth season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

I’ll be hosting the eighth season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

I’ll be hosting the eighth season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

Erica Reid’s Mrs. Lancaster has been part of Alisa Rosenthal’s The Plucky Show from the start and this week we get to meet Mr. Lancaster.

The Plucky Show
Gorilla Tango Theatre
1919 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL

I’ll be hosting the seventh season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes ComedySportz Theatre 929 W Belmont Chicago

I'll be hosting the seventh season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont
Chicago

I'll be hosting the seventh season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont
Chicago

I'll be hosting the seventh season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont
Chicago

I'll be hosting the seventh season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont
Chicago

I'll be hosting the seventh season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont
Chicago

I'll be hosting the seventh season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont
Chicago

I'll be hosting the seventh season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont
Chicago

I'll be hosting the seventh season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host. We've got a lot going on this week: five of our former champions are competing in a special one-night-only challenge to be crowned the LEAST Least Pitiful Human (and earn $100) and we're also announcing the cast of our upcoming eight week season, LIVE on stage.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont
Chicago

I'll be hosting the seventh season of Impress These Apes, a comedy talent competition, as Sports Show Host. This show is our live callback show: we've got 17 potential contestants who need to impress our six past champions in order to become one of the eight cast in the show.

Impress These Apes
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont
Chicago

You've seen it on TV, now see it in person. Don't Spit the Water, our Crazy Live Game Show, returns to the Wilmette Theatre (1122 Central Ave, Wilmette, IL) for one special evening! I'll be one of the comics for the evening. Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door.

Update: the show is still on, but I'm out of Chicago for a funeral and so will not be performing in the show.

The TV Pilot for our Crazy Live Game Show, Don't Spit the Water will be airing at midnight on Saturday, September 3, 2011 on WCIU, "The U":

Antenna - 26.1
Comcast (HD) - 183
RCN - 6 / 606
WOW - 6 / 207
DISH - 26
DIRECTV - 26
U-VERSE - 10 / 1010

You can watch at home, of course, or we'll be having a viewing party at the Lincoln Tap Room (3010 N Lincoln, Chicago). We'll be there from 10pm, and they'll put the show on all of their TVs and a big projection screen when it airs live at midnight.

There will be a drink bracelet you can buy for $30, which gives you unlimited cheap beer and well drinks from 10pm-2am. Or you can just buy drinks straight from the bar.

It's the sixth season of Chicago's favorite talent competition hosted by hyperintelligent apes from the future--Impress These Apes. I'm your favorite co-host of the show: Pre-historic Human.

Tickets $10
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

It's the sixth season of Chicago's favorite talent competition hosted by hyperintelligent apes from the future--Impress These Apes. I'm your favorite co-host of the show: Pre-historic Human.

Tickets $10
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

It's the sixth season of Chicago's favorite talent competition hosted by hyperintelligent apes from the future--Impress These Apes. I'm your favorite co-host of the show: Pre-historic Human.

Tickets $10
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

It's the sixth season of Chicago's favorite talent competition hosted by hyperintelligent apes from the future--Impress These Apes. I'm your favorite co-host of the show: Pre-historic Human.

Tickets $10
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

It's the sixth season of Chicago's favorite talent competition hosted by hyperintelligent apes from the future--Impress These Apes. I'm your favorite co-host of the show: Pre-historic Human.

Tickets $10
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

It's the sixth season of Chicago's favorite talent competition hosted by hyperintelligent apes from the future--Impress These Apes. I'm your favorite co-host of the show: Pre-historic Human.

Tickets $10
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

It's the sixth season of Chicago's favorite talent competition hosted by hyperintelligent apes from the future--Impress These Apes. I'm your favorite co-host of the show: Pre-historic Human.

Tickets $10
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

It's the sixth season of Chicago's favorite talent competition hosted by hyperintelligent apes from the future--Impress These Apes. I'm your favorite co-host of the show: Pre-historic Human.

Tickets $10
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

We're starting off the sixth season of Impress These Apes with a brand-new twist, borrowed from TV reality shows--we're doing a live casting show. We've narrowed down our auditionees to 18 talented Chicago performers, and now we're asking them to perform in front of a live audience and our secret celebrity judges. By the end of the evening we'll have our cast of eight for the next eight weeks.

I'll be appearing as a new co-host of the show: Pre-historic Human.

Tickets $10
ComedySportz Theatre
929 W Belmont, Chicago

After nearly 8 years, the Belmont Burlesque Revue is closing their open run. Comedy duo Gerdes and Reid (i.e., Erica and I) will be reprising one of our favorite bits. The midnight show is by invite only, but there's also a Friday show at Martyr's and a 10 pm show on Saturday at the Playground.

The Playground Theatre
3209 N Halsted, Chicago

We're taping a TV Pilot for our Crazy Live Game Show, Don't Spit the Water at the ComedySportz Theatre. Tickets are free, but are very limited. You can also apply to be one of the on-stage contestants!

Don't Spit the Water, our Crazy Live Game Show, returns to the Wilmette Theatre (1122 Central Ave, Wilmette, IL) for one special evening! Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door.

Bare's vaudevillian alter-egos Himmerick and Gerdes will be appearing as guests of Montgomery and Cooke in their show "That's Show Biz, Kid!" at the Laugh Out Loud Theater in Schaumburg, IL.

I will assisting Paris Green ("the Pleasure Chest of the Midwest") in a comedy burlesque routine as part of the New American Revue.

No Exit Cafe
6970 N Glenwood
Chicago

I will assisting Paris Green ("the Pleasure Chest of the Midwest") in a comedy burlesque routine as part of the New American Revue.

No Exit Cafe
6970 N Glenwood
Chicago

A special one-evening-only performance of Don't Spit the Water as part of the TBS Just for Laughs Festival at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be doing a special pre-show... thing and Erica will be performing in the show as Cutie Bumblesnatch.

A special one-evening-only performance of Don't Spit the Water as part of the TBS Just for Laughs Festival at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be doing a special pre-show... thing.

Gerdes and Reid (the comedy duo that consists of my wife and myself) will be performing comedy at the Belmont Burlesque Revue (at the Playground, 3209 N Halsted, Chicago).

Bryan Bowden hosts this late-night stand-up showcase. Gerdes and Reid, the comedy duo that consists of my wife and myself, will be performing.

The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago)

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

Don't Spit the Water is closing on August 9, so this will be my last appearance as David from Sing-a-Ding-Ding for the foreseeable future.

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

It's our last show of our (previously) open run and I'll be in the booth as your lovable announcer, 100% Gerdes.

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be in the booth as your lovable announcer, 100% Gerdes.

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be in the booth as your lovable announcer, 100% Gerdes.

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be in the booth as your lovable announcer, 100% Gerdes.

I'll be the narrator in Camenae's dramatic reading of Ninja III: The Domination for the Neo-Futurists' It Came From the Neo-Futurarium.

"A mysterious, relentless masked warrior kills a scientist, his entourage, and half of the Los Angeles Police Department before being gunned down on a golf course...and then his soul possesses the body of a sexy aerobics instructor to continue his mission of murder! Floating swords, mostly silent one-eyed martial artists, vaguely Asian mysticism, and the erotic properties of tomato juice combine into an action-packed kill-fest directed by Dana Dardai of the Camenae Ensemble Theatre Company."

The Neo-Futurarium
5153 N. Ashland Ave. 2nd Fl.
Chicago, IL

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be appearing as a brand new character!

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be appearing as David from Sing-a-Ding-Ding.

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be appearing as Banana, the Shock Comic.

Chicago's Crazy Live Game Show goes to Hollywood: Don't Spit the Water at the Comedy Central Stage (6539 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, California 90038). The show is free! Call (323) 960-5519 for reservations.

I'll be the announcer and tech guy, "Mr. Pickles", so you'll hear but not see me the whole show.

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be the announcer and tech guy, "100% Gerdes", so you'll hear but not see me the whole show.

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be in the booth as the announcer, Mr. Pickles.

I'll be appearing as Dr. Baron Ludwig von Evilschlager in the Forbidden Planet Cosmic Cabaret.

The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago).

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be appearing as a brand new character - David, the host of Sing-a-Ding-Ding! (Minnesota Public Television's highest rated program for children between the ages of two and two-and-a-half)!

I'll be appearing as Dr. Baron Ludwig von Evilschlager in the Forbidden Planet Cosmic Cabaret.

The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago).

Impress These Apes at iO Theater's Del Close Theater (upstairs, 3541 N Clark, Chicago). I'm a contestant in this comedy talent show. This night will be the finale of the show and the winner will be determined.

Impress These Apes at iO Theater's Del Close Theater (upstairs, 3541 N Clark, Chicago). I'm a contestant in this comedy talent show.

Impress These Apes at iO Theater's Del Close Theater (upstairs, 3541 N Clark, Chicago). I'm a contestant in this comedy talent show.

For the sixth week of the competition, we've been randomly assigned a song (for me, Jump, Jive an' Wail by Louis Prima) and a partner (Jarrad Apperson) and we have to perform a dance to the song.

Impress These Apes at iO Theater's Del Close Theater (upstairs, 3541 N Clark, Chicago). I'm a contestant in this comedy talent show.

The challenge for the fifth week was to simply tell a story. I told one about Chicago's first non-native resident, Jean Baptiste du Sable.

Impress These Apes at iO Theater's Del Close Theater (upstairs, 3541 N Clark, Chicago). I'm a contestant in this comedy talent show.

The challenge for the fourth week was to build a puppet and then perform a comedy routine with it. My hobo routine pushed me into first place.

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be appearing as Dr. Baron Ludwig von Evilschlager, juggling chickens and performing other acts of unspeakable evil.

Impress These Apes at iO Theater's Del Close Theater (upstairs, 3541 N Clark, Chicago). I'm a contestant in this comedy talent show.

For the third week of the show, we were randomly assigned a song and then challenged to film a music video for it. I got Dirt Bike by They Might Be Giants and filmed this video.

Impress These Apes at iO Theater's Del Close Theater (upstairs, 3541 N Clark, Chicago). I'm a contestant in this comedy talent show.

Our challenge for the week was to recreate a scene from a movie, adapted for the stage (much like what Bob Ladewig did for the first season's free-for-all finale). We were allowed one friend to help us perform and one of the judging criteria was recreation of details.

I recruited my friend Bilal Dardai and performed the "beating up the printer" scene from Office Space.

Impress These Apes at iO Theater's Del Close Theater (upstairs, 3541 N Clark, Chicago). I'm a contestant in this comedy talent show.

Our first challenge was to write an autobiographical song and accompany ourselves on some sort of musical instrument. I wrote a song called Fuzzy Gerdes is Totally Awesome.

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be appearing as Dr. Baron Ludwig von Evilschlager, juggling chickens and performing other acts of unspeakable evil.

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be appearing as Dr. Baron Ludwig von Evilschlager, juggling chickens and performing other acts of unspeakable evil.

Our absurbist comedy duo, Gerdes & Reid, will be appearing at the Belmont Burlesque Revue at the Playground (3209 N Halsted) along with the Belmont Bombshells and other variety acts.

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be appearing as Dr. Baron Ludwig von Evilschlager, juggling chickens and performing other acts of unspeakable evil.

Don't Spit the Water at The Playground (3209 N Halsted, Chicago). A Crazy Live Game Show!

I'll be appearing as Dr. Baron Ludwig von Evilschlager, juggling chickens and performing other acts of unspeakable evil. Also, it's my birthday.

Don't Spit the Water at the Charleston Comedy Festival at Theatre 99 (280 Meeting St, Charleston, SC). A Crazy Live Game Show!

Don't Spit the Water at the Charleston Comedy Festival at Theatre 99 (280 Meeting St, Charleston, SC). A Crazy Live Game Show!