{"id":30034,"date":"2018-05-21T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/?p=30034"},"modified":"2018-05-21T14:03:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T19:03:27","slug":"snl-chicago-improv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/snl-chicago-improv\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: SNL Spoof, Chicago Improv, Feels Almost Too Accurate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riffing off of Dick Wolf&#8217;s never-ending chain of Chicago-themed TV shows (<em>Fire,\u00a0Med,\u00a0PD,\u00a0Law,\u00a0<\/em>whatever),\u00a0<em>SNL<\/em> has finally provided us with a would-be glimpse of a syndicated spin-off that captures what Chicago is <em>really<\/em>\u00a0like.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to Wolf&#8217;s drama-filled collection, <em>SNL&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>spoof so-too follows some of our city&#8217;s most iconic citizens. Only, rather than detail the fictional lives of Chicago&#8217;s hardened, Old Style drinking, first responders, the late-night comedy program instead\u00a0follows some of the Windy City&#8217;s most annoying residents: that being, improv actors.<\/p>\n<p>Watch below as ex-Chicagoan herself (and last Saturday&#8217;s host) Tina Fey gives us a shudder-inducing look at\u00a0<em>Chicago Improv,\u00a0<\/em>the most gratingly accurate Chicago TV show of them all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7s5WrI3bZ8o?rel=0\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Featured Image Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/saturday-night-live\" target=\"_blank\">Screenshot pulled from SNL, NBC<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riffing off of Dick Wolf&#8217;s never-ending chain of Chicago-themed TV shows (Fire,\u00a0Med,\u00a0PD,\u00a0Law,\u00a0whatever),\u00a0SNL has finally provided us with a would-be glimpse of a syndicated spin-off that captures what Chicago&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2008,"featured_media":30035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1554,2],"tags":[1005,5027,5029,5030,5032,5028,5026,5031],"class_list":["post-30034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-category-news","category-category-popular","tag-chicago-fire","tag-chicago-improv","tag-chicago-med","tag-chicago-pd","tag-chicago-tv-show","tag-dick-wolf","tag-snl","tag-tina-fey"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WATCH: SNL Spoof, Chicago Improv, Feels Almost Too Accurate | UrbanMatter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chicago&#039;s most embarrassing citizens finally get a show of their own in this SNL skit. 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