{"id":1954,"date":"2026-07-08T11:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/?post_type=ao_book&#038;p=1954"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:41:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:41:45","slug":"the-second-city-the-essentially-accurate-history","status":"publish","type":"ao_book","link":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/book\/the-second-city-the-essentially-accurate-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Second City: The Essentially Accurate History (The Second City, Sheldon Patinkin)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since opening in 1959, The Second City has transformed the state of comedy as we know it, creating a wickedly funny culture of improvisation and training thousands of artists\u2014who now dominate popular entertainment\u2014in the art of improv-based theater.<br><br>This newly revised and expanded edition of\u00a0<em>The Second City<\/em>\u00a0tells the story of the legendary comedy institution and the Emmy-winning sketch comedy classic\u00a0<em>SCTV<\/em>, folding new material and commentary in with tales of The Second City\u2019s storied past. The giants who got their start at The Second City in its earlier years\u2014including Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, John Candy, Chris Farley, Eugene Levy, Tim Meadows, Bill Murray, Mike Myers, Catherine O\u2019Hara, Gilda Radner, Joan Rivers, Martin Short, and Fred Willard\u2014are joined in these pages by more recent alumni like Aidy Bryant, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Keegan-Michael Key, Jack McBrayer, Bob Odenkirk, and Jason Sudeikis.<br><br>The real stories of The Second City and its performers will make you see the comedy juggernaut in a whole new light. Did you know John Belushi got his start lifting jokes from The Second City? Or that many cast members\u2014including Stephen Colbert and Nia Vardalos\u2014sold tickets or waited tables at the theater before they made it to the stage?<br><br><em>The Second City<\/em>\u00a0takes you behind the scenes of the world\u2019s leading improv theater. Now spanning six decades, the story of The Second City is both funnier and more poignant than anyone could have imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since opening in 1959, The Second City has transformed the state of comedy as we know it, creating a wickedly funny culture of improvisation and training thousands of artists\u2014who now dominate popular entertainment\u2014in the art of improv-based theater. This newly revised and expanded edition of\u00a0The Second City\u00a0tells the story of the legendary comedy institution and the Emmy-winning sketch comedy classic\u00a0SCTV, folding new material and commentary in with tales of The Second City\u2019s storied past. The giants who got their start at The Second City in its earlier years\u2014including Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, John Candy, Chris Farley, Eugene Levy, Tim Meadows, Bill Murray, Mike Myers, Catherine O\u2019Hara, Gilda Radner, Joan Rivers, Martin Short, and Fred Willard\u2014are joined in these pages by more recent alumni like Aidy Bryant, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Keegan-Michael Key, Jack McBrayer, Bob Odenkirk, and Jason Sudeikis. The real stories of The Second City and its performers will make you see the comedy juggernaut in a whole new light. Did you know John Belushi got his start lifting jokes from The Second City? Or that many cast members\u2014including Stephen Colbert and Nia Vardalos\u2014sold tickets or waited tables at the theater before they made it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"post_tag":[57],"topic":[14,17],"class_list":["post-1954","ao_book","type-ao_book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-the-second-city","topic-ensayo","topic-english"],"featured_image_url":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/TheSecondCity-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/TheSecondCity-259x300.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/TheSecondCity-768x890.jpg","large":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/TheSecondCity-884x1024.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/TheSecondCity.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/TheSecondCity.jpg"},"post_author":"","assigned_categories":"The Second City, Essay, english","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ao_book\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ao_book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ao_book"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_tag?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}