Last Minute Laughs: The Interview Show

By Justin Sondak in Arts & Entertainment on Feb 8, 2008 9:15PM

Like a scaled-down Tonight Show sans writer’s strike trauma, The Interview Show brings humorous, interesting and idiosyncratic folks to The Hideout’s couch. Tonight at 6:30, host and Red-Eye columnist Mark Bazer welcomes “Funniest Person in Chicago” Hannibal Buress (there is no one funnier…), Looking for Alaska author John Green, Lifeway Foods President Julie Smolyansky, and Schadenfreuder and troublemaker Justin Kaufmann.

If you can’t change your plans on less than four hour’s notice, take heart. Bazer and company will return to chat up a new group of artists, activists, professionals, and all-around interesting folk every first Friday until they get bored or until The Dollar Store wrestles back the timeslot.

The Interview Show is at The Hideout, 1354 West Wabansia. Doors open at 6 p.m., show starts at 6:30. Admission is $5.