Columbia College in Chicago has joined forces with the city’s esteemed Second City Theatre to offer the country’s first-ever comedy degree this fall, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Columbia has offered theater students the chance to spend a semester studying at Second City for the past five years, but this new four-year degree in Comedy Performance and Writing “requires students to study both writing and performance, to do improvisation, physical clowning, and stand-up.†Not that you need a degree at all for a career in comedy, but for those interested in paying a lot more to go through Second City’s program, this is a way to do that.
