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Chicago Comic Brian Babylon Featured On BBC America

By Kristy Mangel in Arts & Entertainment on Oct 19, 2010 7:00PM

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Brian Babylon | Photo by Erin Nekervis
Chicago comics Brian Babylon and Aaron Foster were featured this morning on NPR’s BBC America, discussing President Barack Obama's slipping poll numbers and what this means to the President's bedrock supporters in Chicago. Babylon is featured doing his dead-on impersonation of Obama while being driven around the Hyde Park neighborhood by BBC News correspondent Paul Adams.

MP3: Brian Babylon IS Barack Obama, on BBC America

Catch Brian Babylon as he hosts the Chicago Comedy Contest on October 28 at Jokes and Notes, 4641 S King Dr., 8:30 p.m., $5