Ben Bass and Beyond: Just For Laughs, just for a week

Monday, June 11, 2012

Just For Laughs, just for a week

Just For Laughs Chicago, this city's arguably largest and inarguably best-funded comedy festival, returns this week for its fourth annual go-round.

Official festival performances begin in earnest tomorrow, but if like me you want to get an early laugh or two under your belt, head over to IO Theater at 8:30pm for this week's Armando show. I hear Second City/IO veteran Brian Stack, in town this week working on "Conan" at the Chicago Theater, will be sitting in on the all-star improv throwdown. Other special guests will probably pop up too.

The complete festival lineup is available at justforlaughschicago.com. Check it out!

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NPR Sunday puzzle

This week:

What familiar saying with seven words has seven consonants in a row? The answer is a common saying, in ordinary English. Sometimes it's expressed in nine words rather than seven, but it's the same saying. And either way, in one spot it has seven consecutive consonants. What saying is it?

Enter here or email me for a hint.

Last week: Name something in seven letters that most people keep in their homes. Take the first, third, fourth and seventh letters and rearrange them. The result will be a four-letter word naming something that the seven-letter thing is commonly used for. What is it?

Highlight for answer: Aspirin, pain

Two weeks ago: The name of what character, familiar to everyone, contains each of the five vowels (A, E, I, O and U) exactly once? The answer consists of two words — eight letters in the first word, four letters in the second.

Highlight for answer: Question mark

Three weeks ago: Name a well-known person from the 20th century who held an important position. Take the first and last letters of this person's last name, change each of them to the next letter of the alphabet, and you'll get the last name of another famous person who held the same position sometime after the first one. Who is it?

Highlight for answer: Ford, Gore