The Second City is one of the shrines of American comedy — an instantly recognizable brand name with decades of history turn out legendary natural endowment . Bill Murray , John Candy , John Belushi , Tina Fey , Chris Farley , Mike Myers , Amy Poehler , Stephen Colbert , Dan Aykroyd , and Joan Rivers are just a few of the hundreds of notable alumna who have perish through The Second City theaters in Chicago , Toronto , Los Angeles and elsewhere . gratefully , they captured some of the work of these people on tape before they blew up into huge star . Here are a few that The Second City has made available through theirYouTube channel .
1. CHRIS FARLEY AS AN EARLY MATT FOLEY.
Bob Odenkirk ( a.k.a . Saul Goodman ) stars as the sire who charter Chris Farley ’s iconic motivational speaker system character Matt Foley . This resume probably seems intimate because it laterappeared onSNL .
2. STEVE CARELL AND STEPHEN COLBERT SINGING.
The whiz ofThe Officeand the new host ofThe Late Showfill two roles in a quartet blab out “ The Obvious Song . ”
3. TINA FEY AND RACHEL DRATCH CONNECT.
The twoSNLstars take on a classic improv game . ( You might also recognise Scott Adsit of30 Rockfame . )
4. RYAN STILES GOES TO PRISON.
Ryan Stiles is a visitor in this prison scene . Now you know why he is so safe onWhose Line Is It Anyway ?
5. MIKE MYERS GOES TO THE POST OFFICE.
The valet de chambre who later would be Wayne Campbell , Austin Powers , and Shrek takes a trip to a post office in this conniption from the 1980s .
6. JANE LYNCH GOES TO BASIC.
Long before she was Sue Sylvester onGlee , Jane Lynch was a lead on the Chicago improv aspect .
7. JASON SUDEIKIS PLAYS AN IMPROV GAME.
A few years before he joined the dramatis personae ofSNL , Jason Sudeikis participated in this improv plot about a superhero .
8. ROBIN WILLIAMS IN HIS ELEMENT.
Robin Williams treated every day like one giving improv secret plan , so he ’s utterly in his element sitting in with The Second City in Santa Monica back in the 1980s . Technically , he was already illustrious at this breaker point , but it ’s still a playfulness one to watch .
