Comedian Godfrey returns to town to tape special

Comedian Godfrey returns to town to tape special
Comedian Godfrey returns to town to tape special

Comedian Godfrey returns to town to tape special

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Chicago comedian Godfrey has a stand-up style that could be described as is unpredictable. It runs from the serious to the silly, and from the cerebral to the physical. He doesn’t seem to have a hook or a shtick or a persona, he just wants to make people laugh. And he’s been making people laugh for years in clubs and festivals around the world, and in his cameos in TV and film from “Louie” to “Zoolander.” Godfrey is back in town Saturday night for the first stand-up gig at Second City’s UP comedy club since a fire took out a chunk of the famed building on Wells St.