The Second City Detroit

The Second City Detroit was a comedy theatre and training center located in the Detroit suburb Novi, Michigan. It was the Second City's third mainstage theatre in North America following the Second City Chicago and Toronto. Originally established in September 1993 in downtown Detroit, Michigan,the theatre relocated to a strip mall in Novi in 2005, where it remained until it was disbanded in 2009. The original downtown Detroit theater, within the Hockeytown Cafe complex, is now named the City Theater (Detroit), and the Novi location is now named the Andiamo Novi Theatre.

Notable alumni

• (1993) Colin Ferguson (Eureka)
• (1993) Jerry C. Minor (SNL, Mr. Show)
• (1993) Suzy Nakamura (The West Wing, Curb Your Enthusiasm)
• (1993) Angela Shelton (Frangela, Best Week Ever)
• (1995) Joshua Funk (Wild 'N Out)
• (1996) Larry Joe Campbell (According to Jim)
• (1997) Keegan-Michael Key (MADtv, The Planet's Funniest Animals, Key & Peele)
• (1998) Nyima Funk (Wild 'N Out, Thank God You're Here)
• (1998) Marc Evan Jackson (Thrilling Adventure Hour, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, 22 Jump Street)
• (1999) Maribeth Monroe (Thank God You're Here, The Brink)
• (2001) Kiff VandenHeuvel (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Bioshock: Infinite, Richie Rich)
• (2011) Tim Robinson (Saturday Night Live)

Revues

• Power to the People Mover (1993)
• Kevorkian Unplugged (1994)
• Detroit…Steam Cleaning While You Walk (1994)
• Ito Phone Home (1995)
• White Water Rafting (1995)
• Computer Chips & Salsa (1996)
• Slipped a Discus (1996)
• One Nation Undecided (1996)
• Ambassador Bridge Party (1997)
• Send in the Clones (1997)
• Generation X-Files (1997)
• Down Riverdance (1998)
• Greetings from Viagra Falls (1998)
• Daimlers Are a Girl's Best Friend (1998)
• Impeachment and Cream (1999)
• Phantom Menace to Society (1999)
• Paradigm Lost (2000)
• Gratiot Happens (2000)
• 19th Nervous Breakdown (2000)
• eBay of Pigs (2001)
• Mayor Go Round (2001)
• Jihad It Up to Here (2002)
• Less Talk, Motown (2002)
• Woodward to Your Mutha (2003)
• Ten (2003)
• In iPod We Trust (2005)
• Bobble Heads of State (2006)
• Dysfunctional Holiday Revue (2006)
• Michigan Impossible: All Laid Off and No Place to Go (2007)
• Night of the Living Debt (2007)
• Dysfunctional Holiday Revue (2007)
• Dysfunctional Holiday Revue (2008)
• Kwame a River: the Chronicles of Detroit's Hip-Hop Mayor (2009)