#helltrap nightmare

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On this week’s episode of CGP @ Home, Helltrap Nightmare brings their noise and comedy to twitch.tv/cgpmnn. On this fan pod, Emily Pineapple and Forrest the Keeper of the Canon share some of Sarah Squirm and The Shrimp Boys’ past work. Plus, Allie calls in!

Sarah Squirm and her Helltrap Nightmare gang (Scott Egleston, The Shrimp Boys-Luke Taylor, Wyatt Fair and David Brown) has charmed us for a number of years now (so much that she has made our 100 Best List in 2017 and 2018).

Her mastery of blending the grotesque and the comedic is something to behold (and so damn funny). Helltrap Nightmare became and stayed a cornerstone show for comedy that was “out there” in Chicago as you can read in a lovely farewell piece in the Chicago Tribune.

The spooky month October is just around the corner and a great way to join in the spirit is going to Chicago’s favorite horror comedy music extravaganza lovingly known as HELLTRAP NIGHTMARE.

We had such a blast the last time they (Sarah Squirm, the Shrimp Boys, Scott Egleston, and Ruby McCollister) were in town that we’d highly urge you to dare to enter the HELLTRAP NIGHTMARE on one of their two dates at the Lyric Hyperion coming up. Music from bands Vail and Mood Killer will be featured!

Tickets are $8 and you can (and really should) get your tickets here.

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Another Free Monday for the books! SARAH SQUIRM, Chicago stand up comedian, will be performing with smattering of guests. This is a preview of what's to come on the album she's recorded with Moniker Records. If you've ever seen SARAH SQUIRM live, you know to expect something strange and unsettlingly delicious. Joining in the evening is New York comedian and self-described "aspiring actress" RUBY MCCOLLISTER, Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist producer FIRE-TOOLZ and special guest performance artist VAIL.

For tonight, Chicago’s own live comedy horror spectacle Helltrap Nightmare sold out their show at the Lyric Hyperion, so they added a 2nd show for this Sunday, Nov. 12th at 10PM.

Tickets are $10 and you should get them quickly before they also sell out here.

Though Halloween will be over, you can keep the spirit alive with Chicago’s own Helltrap Nightmare, a surrealist, horror comedy show (seemingly in the same oozing vein of The Heart, She Holler) coming to the Lyric Hyperion next month.

Also, it might be a perfect night for the show as it’ll be exactly a year to the day after, well, you know, the 2016 election was over. 

The line-up includes: -host Sarah Squirm, The Shrimp Boys, and Scott Egleston, all from Chicago -Ruby McCollister from NYC -LA’s own Jamie Loftus, Bruce Bundy, and Lyra Hill. 

Rather than following the traditional paths to comedy stardom, Sarah Sherman is forging her own way and finding the funny in the most unlikely – and at times mildly nauseating – of places. Her weird, wild and utterly hilarious variety show, “Helltrap Nightmare,” which combines elements of noise music, performance art, stand-up comedy and gross-out humor, packs Chicago’s The Hideouteach and every…