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Performance Revue is a Chicago-based show that gets to the heart of an artist’s inspiration and process. Each week, you’ll meet a performer, hear (and watch) their set, and indulge in an in-depth discussion about how their act has been developed.

If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in the head of a veteran comedian, musician, or actor, this show is for you.

Jan 27, 2021

In these outtakes from Devin Middleton's episode, we talk about the various reactions of Star wars fans to his set, accountability in the stand-up comedy scene, how the Walt Disney Corporation is destroying public domain, the X-Men comics, and a discussion of queer coding in the Dragonball Z series leads to the...


Jan 25, 2021

Devin Middleton engages in a socially-distanced interview about his opening set during KJ Whitehead's 'The Haggard Unicorn' album recording in January 2020.<p>

Devin summarizes the first nine films in the Star Wars franchise in about nine minutes through a socially-conscious lens. He uses this framework as a way to...


Jan 20, 2021

In these outtakes from the Rodescu Hopkins episode, we divulge many personal tales from the Trigger Warning Open Mic (these stories include Rodescu's first time hosting and a man who tried to sell him a fiefdom in Africa), and we cap it off with the full report of his would-be business dealings with Cards...


Jan 18, 2021

Rodescu Hopkins engages in a socially-distanced interview about his set at We Still Like You in the before times of July 2019. his stories include peeing in a crowded car during Wrestlemania, getting caught stealing from Whole Foods, and discovering his dead father's porn collection. <p>

Rodescu runs The Trigger Warning...


Jan 13, 2021

Timestamps <p>

02:00 – What have you been doing since the pandemic started?<p>

  • Origami, Yoga, Star Trek, Reading, Weed<p>

02:58 – Sending Packets to Late Night Shows<p>

  • Mentions of SNL<p>

03:41 – Pitching Ideas in the Writer’s Room vs. Performing a Stand-Up Set<p>

04:00 – “If you can pitch, but can’t...