"This is the kind of thing I like to do because as great, safe environment for work in progress," 59-year-old actress and Chicago native/residents of the 50 guests or more after they have settled into a comfortable sofa, chairs and folding chairs among candles and numerous lights that let warm.

Dunn not only ex-"SNL" cast member try new material at an informal meeting over the weekend. On Saturday afternoon, Julia Sweeney, the Office of "SNL" which followed Dunn's (Dunn is the show's 1985-90 1990-94, Sweeney), presented the seventh in a series of eight readings in the nightclub space of Evanston's book an essay he wrote for Simon

Sweeney, Wilmette residents, now has the previous women's show when workshopped lives in Los Angeles before deciding to take the same approach with this book, tentatively titled "if it's not one thing, it is Your mother." So he ordered eight Saturday at 4 for 45 minutes, charging $ 5 a receipt and $ 15 for the entire series, with the proceeds going to charity. (The last one was on 17 December.)