Rebecca O’Neal
Rebecca O’Neal is a Chicago based stand-up comedian and writer/editor whose work can be read on/in Vanity Fair Magazine, Buzzfeed, Gawker.tv, Splitsider.com, New York Magazine’s Vulture.com, Videogum.com, The Frisky, The Rumpus, Death and Taxes Magazine, and more. She is also the television host of WCIU The U’s Chicago’s One Night Stand Up and hosts weekly shows Tuesdays and Saturdays at Laugh Factory Chicago - and the long-running Cole’s Bar Wednesday night open mic.
Rebecca was named a TBS 2018 Comic to Watch as a part of The New York Comedy Festival and has performed at Brooklyn Comedy Festival, Portland’s 2013, 2014, & 2016 Bridgetown Comedy Festival, RIOT LA Comedy Festival, The Comedy Exposition of 2014 & 2015, The Onion and The AV Club’s 2nd Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival, NBCUniversal and Second City’s Break Out Comedy Festival, Oddball Comedy Festival 2016,Chicago Women’s Funny Festival, and many other showcases and clubs in and around Chicago - and was a regular at Laugh Factory Chicago, Comedy Bar, UP Comedy Club and filmed her television show at Zanies. She has also opened for Arsenio Hall, Michael Che, Maria Bamford, Janeane Garofalo, The Daily Show’s Al Madrigal (UP Comedy Club), Roy Wood Jr, Jena Friedman, and Michelle Wolf, Saturday Night Live’s Sasheer Zamata, Hannibal Buress, Ron Funches, and Cameron Esposito.
Rebecca is a former cast member of the 14th season of Chicago’s historic Lincoln Lodge and was a regular at Laugh Factory Chicago and host of the club’s weekly show Top Ten Tuesdays - an co-host of the long running Wednesday open mic at Cole’s Bar. Rebecca has appeared as a recurring guest on Vocalo.org’s Morning Amp and a guest comedy commentator or WBEZ’s Morning Shift with Tony Sarabia. She is a founder producer of a monthly free, BYOB comedy showcase in Chicago called Congrats on Your Success that has been featured in/on Netflix’s Easy, WBEZ/NPR, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine, The Huffington Post, Vocalo.org, The Chicago Reader, The Red Eye’s Eat Drink Do column, Time Out Chicago, Gapers Block, Chicagoist, LoganSquarist, Chicago Now, ChooseChicago.com, AfterEllen.com and many local blogs and websites. Rebecca has been featured in Vice, Paper Magazine (the Kim Kardasian butt mag lol), Bitch Magazine, Huffington Post, and Huffington Post Chicago, Chicago Magazine, The Chicago Reader, The Chicago Tribune, Portland Monthly, AfterEllen.com, ABC’s Windy City Live, WCIU’s You and Me This Morning, WGCI, KISS FM, and Power 92 and more.
Rebecca O’Neal is a hilariously cerebral and confessional comic whose upbringing on Chicago’s southside coupled with her love of language and pop culture and tendency toward introspection endear her to audiences of all backgrounds. By humorously and shamelessly mining her experiences, she makes the esoteric universal.
