tom dreesen

Tim & Tom: it wouldn’t be funny if it weren’t so true

As part of the Chicago Humanities Festival, this Saturday meet Tim & Tom… a “Salt & Pepper” comedy team born in the hotbed of sixties Chicago… Tim Reid and Tom Dreesen met for the first time in tumultuous 1968 Chicago. As the heady promise of the sixties sagged under the weight of widespread violence, rioting, and…

October 16, 2009

ayanacontreras

Arts & Culture, Books, Chicago Cultural History, Events, Film and Television, Performance, Printed Matters

1968, books, chicago humanities festival, Civil rights movement, comedy, humor, Printed Matters, Race, Tim Reid, tom dreesen