Funny Ha Ha Returns To Celebrate Geek Love

Writer Claire Zulkey is bringing the funny back to the Hideout for another round of her excellent Funny Ha Ha series. Funny Ha-Ha rounds up Zulkey’s funny friends for a reading of pieces they’re particularly proud of and a few performance pieces. Low-key literature plus a dash of multimedia from Zulkey’s husband, Steve Delahoyde, equals big laughs at the Hideout next Wednesday.

This time around, titled "Geek Love," Zulkey's bringing in the Trib's TV critic Maureen Ryan, Cast of Shadows author Kevin Guilfoile, Bruised Orange Theater Company's "I Saw You," an members of The AV Club, fresh off the release of their awesome new book, Inventory, to which Zulkey contributed.

Proceeds benefit the Neighborhood Writing Alliance, which will assuage your guilt of the impending hangover as you down High Life after High Life between laughs.

Funny Ha-Ha: Geek Love, Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 6:30-8 p.m., The Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, $5 suggested donation at door