Just For Laughs: Friday

The Just For Laughs comedy festival continues tonight with a broad slate of mostly standup and improv shows.  Here are my Friday picks as previewed in Flavorpill Chicago:

• Jeffrey Ross Roasts Chicago, 7:30pm at the Vic
• Alone: Chicago's Best Solo Acts, 10pm at the Playground Theater

Another show deserves a mention, The Chris Gethard Show at the iO Theater at 11:59pm. Chris is a stalwart member of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City, a leading bastion of improvisation and sketch, where he appears in the all-star ASSSCAT show on Sunday nights. You might have also caught him with fellow UCB veterans Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell in Comedy Central's "Big Lake." He is an excellent improviser, a winning monologuist and well worth seeing.