{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Tara DeFrancisco, Chicago Improv: iO, Second City, ComedySportz \u2013 Part 1\/2","description":"The Free Press called Tara DeFrancisco &amp;ldquo;The Funniest Person In Chicago&amp;rdquo;. She won Top 25 Funniest Women in Curve Magazine.&amp;nbsp; Tara started in stand up but switched to improv!&amp;nbsp;Tara teaches improv and sketch-writing classes at iO,&amp;nbsp;Second City, and&amp;nbsp;ComedySportz, and coaches a Harold team at the iO theatre as well.&amp;nbsp;She performs for the Second City as an understudy for the resident stages, and at CSz several times a week. Her iO team&amp;nbsp;Chaos Theory&amp;nbsp;performs Saturday nights. She is now in four LasVegasDotCom commercials airing nationally (one of them is embedded below). And Tara is the only person so far that I absolutely had to interview twice right away. I don&amp;rsquo;t know why. Maybe cuz we&amp;rsquo;re both from Ohio.\nRead all the notes and see the funny pictures here (opens new window).\nFull Episode:\n\nVideo preview:\n","author_name":"Comedy Pros","author_url":"http:\/\/comedypros.libsyn.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/2255618\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/5504192"}