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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Producer petitions for The Mee-Ow Show are happening this week.

Mee-Ow comedy splits from Arts Alliance, collects petitions for new producers

April 8, 2025

Northwestern’s premier comedy group, The Mee-Ow Show, separated from its historical board sponsor of over 50 years, Arts Alliance, at the start of Spring Quarter. Mee-Ow is one-third improv, one-third...

Actors wearing blue jackets talk and face each other.

Mee-Ow Show kills with ‘Knives Mee-Owt’

March 3, 2025

Before the quarter’s final Mee-Ow Show Saturday, Communication senior and co-Director Brenden Dahl warned audience members sitting on the Shanley Pavilion floor that they were in a “splash zone.”  “Knives...

Performers stand in a line onstage.

Mee-Ow Show returns with wild ride on ‘The Mee-Owgic School Bus’

January 30, 2025

Mee-Ow, Northwestern’s longest-running student comedy and improv group, returns with “The Mee-Owgic School Bus” this weekend at Shanley Pavilion. While preparing for the annual Mee-Ow Show, Communication...

Kristen Schall (Bob’s Burgers) shows off her Mee-Ow hoodie from her days in the Northwestern student comedy group on the Actors & Characters panel of the Mee-Ow Show Fest.
Back row (L to R): Anjali Bhimani (Ms. Marvel), Dermot Mulroney (Hanna), Peter Grosz (VEEP), J.P. Manoux (Phil of the Future) Front row: Jean Villepique (Upright Citizens Brigade), Romy Rosemont (Glee), Jessica Lowe (Wrecked), Kristen Schall (Bob's Burgers), Ana Gasteyer (Saturday Night Live)

The Mee-Ow Show Fest celebrates comedy group’s 50th year with laugh-out-loud reunion

April 7, 2024

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss decreed April 6, 2024 as Evanston’s official “Mee-Ow Show Day” on Saturday, honoring the longest running college improv and sketch comedy show in America. “Join the...

Many of the cast from the 1980 show (featured above) went on to create the Practical Theatre Company in Chicago.

The Mee-Ow Show’s semicentennial: Committing to the bit 50 years later

April 5, 2024

For Mee-Ow Comedy, Northwestern’s premier comedy group, committing to the bit can look like “yes, and…” improv, setting your crotch on fire or crashing a framed image and shattering the inset glass...

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