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Chicago improv pioneer David Shepherd dies at 94 " without him, no 'Saturday Night Live' by Chris Jones

In 2005, a crowd gathered at the University of Chicago's Reynolds Club to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the invention of improv. No less an authority than the university archivist had declared that the 50th anniversary of the Compass Players " the famous Hyde Park comedy institution co-founded...

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 04:20PM on December 18, 2018

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