Every time The Second City touring company returns to the University of Missouri–St. Louis for its extremely popular annual show at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center, a future legend could be onstage. Named the country’s “Comedy Empire” by The New York Times, the Chicago-based improv group has a reputation for cultivating the next generation of comedic royalty with alumni including Tina Fey, Bill Murray and Steven Colbert.
![The Second City to stage ‘Laughing Matters’ at Touhill](https://blogs.umsl.edu/news/files/2013/04/laughing_matters_495_279.jpg)