Biography
Chris Fair is one of the funniest comedians working today, that is when he can get time off from work. Chris grew up with a speech impediment in St. Charles, a western suburb of Chicago, IL. He worked through his oral disadvantage. Then one day late in High School while making a cute girl laugh in Photography class, he realized people laughed when he talked and not just because he occasionally mispronounced some of his words. That's when Chris realized he wanted to bring himself to the stage to be a stand up comedian...but first he had to conquer his fear of public speaking and of course get a college degree just in case comedy doesn't work out.
So after he picked the entirely wrong college to go to pursue his dream of stand up comedy, Northern Illinois University out in the Boonies of De Kalb, IL. Chris hit up every open mic he could find but still couldn't get enough stage time. Once he turned 21 and had a decent class schedule, Chris took his way to Chicago every week to open mics where he met many of his future co-workers. He attended Dobie Maxwell's beginning comedy class but let it slip that he wasn't even old enough to walk into the club. He returned of age and took Dobie's intermediate class just to kill at his graduation performance.
He then picked up an internship at Comedy Comedy Live in Aurora at Walter Payton's Roundhouse that was supposed to be a TV Show but then turned into an improv group. Then everyone but Chris and the other intern quit so it became a Stage Managing "Show Business" internship. While at Comedy Comedy Live, Chris was given stage time to help work on his five minute act about growing up with a speech impediment. After leaving his internship, Chris took time off going to Chicago to finish his degree and funny enough ended up dumping his psycho girlfriend during the same process (jk she's only kind of psycho). Then he made his worse mistake ever, he stopped going to open mics through out the summer of 2007 but didn't realize his mistake until some getting boo'd off stage at a bar in his home town (not his fault the entire rugby team was heckling him just because they wanted to hear music).
In the fall of 2007, Chris returned to stand up with taking Dave Odd's Comedy Bootcamp and now is doing stand up as much as he can where ever he can when he isn't working and can afford to spend money on gas to come to the city to perform and he even produced his own shows. He has expanded his five minute act to 15-20 minutes on a variety of topics including work, dating, talking spanish and various situational humor that he has faced though out his life... Chris Fair is a firm believer that life is a joke but it all depends how you tell it.
