JACKI LYDEN, host: For most people in Illinois, the Blagojevich scandal is an embarrassment, but for the Chicago comedy institution, Second City, it's an embarrassment of riches. Here's Second City's Brad Morris.</s>Mr. BRAD MORRIS (Writer and Actor, Second City): So I was really excited because immediately, a light bulb goes off, you know. All we need is, you know, a Paul McCartney wig from, like, the Abbey Road era and then just get a leather jacket and a black turtleneck, and we're good to go. That Baretta style, '70s cops, Starsky and Hutch, Kojak thing with the Lego snap-on hair do and all that stuff is just the icing on the cake.</s>Mr. BRAD MORRIS (Writer and Actor, Second City): Obama had rebirthed Chicago in this new clean form without any corruption, and it was virginal and pristine. And then Blagojevich was at home, and he was like, bleep this. I have got to fix this. And so he had to one up, and he just - he went for it. And he nailed it. It's a 10 from the Russian judge and the Czech judge, who's been difficult all night, and certainly, the Chicago judges. He's the best. He's my hero.</s>JACKI LYDEN, host: Brad Morris is a writer and an actor with Chicago Second City, where it's opening night for the new show, "America: All Better!" Jennifer Fields(ph) recorded it for us.
The Blagojevich scandal was embarrassing to most people in Illinois — but for Chicago comedy institution Second City, it was an embarrassment of riches.