If you find that laughter is a difficult emotional response to achieve alone, befriend three people and get in on today’s Groupon. Today, just $15 gets four tickets to a comedy show and half-price drinks all-night long at the Annoyance Theatre & Bar, located in Uptown at 4830 N. Broadway.

This classic Chicago comedy hot spot has been generating edgy, subversive material for more than 20 years, serving up a combo of improv, sketch, full-length plays, musicals, cabaret, PowerPoint presentations, vacation slideshows, and taxidermy lessons. Catch one of more than 10 shows currently running, including:

• Chicagoland & Fishnuts, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.: Two veteran improv groups of veteran improvisers perform shows that may or may not be about Veteran’s Day.
• Co-Ed Prison Sluts, Fridays, 10:01 p.m.: An Annoyance staple and the longest-running musical in Chicago returns for a 20th-anniversary run. Sing along to unforgettable numbers such as “The Dog is Eating My Hamster Now” and “Hey We’re In Prison.”
• Scientology! The Unauthorized Musical, Saturdays, 8 p.m.: Back by popular demand, this show was co-written by Groupon employee Dan Jessup, the rest of the cast, and executive producer Will Smith. This barrel of laughs takes a factual look at Scientology, aliens, and Florida in the key of Bb.

Reviews

The Chicago Reader says, “Annoyance Theatre combines several varieties of poor taste to produce a truly revolting– and very funny– show…” Both Reader reviewers and Yelpers give it four stars. Here’s what they’re saying:

• Saw the show this weekend and really, really was impressed by how smart the humor was. – Dave Miller, Reader reviewer
• when I saw it, the whole audience was cracking up through the entire show. – donnely, Reader reviewer
• we found the loungy, relaxed/hip bar to be quite impressive. The play we saw was extremely satirical, witty, obscene at times. I loved it. – Phillip K., Yelp

Printable List of Improv Suggestions

At the beginning of each improv show, the performers ask the audience for a suggestion. This frequently results in 10 to 20 minutes of awkward silence, followed by the performers leaving the stage, until an hour of silence passes and a bold audience member finally speaks up with the brilliantly conceived suggestion fart, but his genius call rings coldly across the quiet stage, too tardy to be hilariously interpreted by the cast.

To avoid this common improv pitfall, print out this handy list of suggestions by clicking Print, located under the File menu in most browsers.

• Binder
• Mexico
• Fundraiser
• Dogfighting
• Helvetica
• Belly flops
• Serrated knife
• Penis scene from Bruno
• Wayne Brady doing Props on Whose Line is it Anyway?
• Blood bank
• Semi-erotic photoshoot
• Team-building
• Michael Jordan
• Comfort Inn
• Puppy Mill
• Musket wood
• Blitzkrieg
• Salisbury steak
• Tackle dummy
• Albinism
• Alcoholic hepatitis
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Anemia
• Appendicitis
• Apraxia
• Arteritis
• Arthritis
• Aseptic meningitis
• Asthenia
• Asthma
• Atherosclerosis
• Athetosis
• Atrophy
• Bacterial meningitis
• Beriberi
• Botulism
• Brucellosis
• Bronchitis
• Calculi
• Campylobacter infection
• Cancer
• Candidiasis
• Cardiac arrest
• Chagas disease
• Chancroid
• Cherubism
• Chlamydia
• Chlamydia trachomatis
• Cholera
• Chordoma
• Circadian rhythm sleep disorder
• Coccidioidomycosis
• Colitis
• Congestive heart disease
• Coronary heart disease
• Cowpox
• Diabetes mellitus
• Diphtheria
• Encephalitis
• Ebola
• Foodborne illness
• Goitre
• Huntington’s disease
• Hypertension
• Hypothermia
• Influenza
• Interstitial cystitis
• Iritis
• Iron-deficiency anemia
• Keloids
• Kuru
• Kwashiorkor
• Lazy eye
• Lazyittis
• Lead poisoning
• Legionellosis
• Leprosy
• Leptospirosis
• Listeriosis
• Loiasis
• Lupus erythematosus
• Lyme disease
• Lymphogranuloma venereum
• Lymphoma
• Malaria
• Marburg fever
• Measles
• Melioidosis
• Ménière’s disease
• Meningitis
• Migraine
• Multiple myeloma
• Multiple sclerosis
• Mumps
• Myasthenia gravis
• Myelitis
• Myoclonus
• Myopia
• Myxedema
• Neoplasm
• Non-gonococcal urethritis
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
• Obesity
• Osteoarthritis
• Palindromic rheumatism
• Paratyphoid fever
• Pelvic inflammatory disease
• Peritonitis
• Periodontal disease
• Pertussis (Whooping cough)
• Phenylketonuria
• Polio or Poliomyelitis
• Porphyria
• Progeria
• Prostatitis
• Psittacosis
• Psoriasis
• Pulmonary Embolism
• Q fever
• Repetitive strain injury (RSI)
• Rheumatic fever
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Rift Valley fever
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever
• Rubella
• Salmonellosis
• Scarlet fever
• Sciatica
• Schizophrenia
• Scleroderma
• Scrapie
• Scurvy
• Sepsis
• Shigellosis
• Shock
• Sickle-cell anemia
• Siderosis
• Silicosis
• Sleep apnea
• Smallpox
• Stevens-Johnson syndrome
• Strabismus
• Strep throat
• Streptococcal infection
• Synovitis
• Taeniasis
• Tay-Sachs disease
• Teratoma
• Tetanus
• Thalassaemia
• Thrush
• Thymoma
• Tinnitus
• Toxic shock syndrome
• Trichinosis
• Trichomoniasis
• Trisomy
• Tuberculosis
• Tularemia
• Tungiasis
• Typhoid or Typhoid fever
• Typhus
• Ulcerative colitis
• Uremia
• Urticaria
• Uveitis
• Varicella
• Vasovagal syncope
• Vitiligo
• Von Hippel-Lindau disease
• Warkany syndrome
• Warts
• Yaws