What are you up to this weekend? No plans? Lame. Some suggestions:

Think Tank is staging "Time Clock," a new sketch comedy revue at Donny’s Skybox Fridays at midnight August 17 through September 14th. The show features a collection of sketches literally timed to the second, and is performed by Brent J. Bridwell, Kevin Carroll, and Paul Robinson, who among them have experience at The Apollo Theatre Chicago, Chicago Sketchfest, and The Manhattan Comedy Collective.

At 10:30 on Fridays in the Del Close Theater at iO, This Day in History. Featuring more O'Briens than you can possibly keep track of, it's been praised thusly by TimeOut Chicago: ""As intelligent as it is funny...Pat O’Brien and Meagan (O'Brien) Flanigan (brother-sister duo) nimbly take us through historical events that happened on the day of each show. It’s a mix of loose improv, obscure factoids and hearty laughs."

Friday and Saturday nights at 11:00 and 12:30, head to the Stage Left Theater and catch a pH mainstage show including the improvised sitcom "pHreedom pHalls," the improvised one act play "pHamily," and the improvised reality-game-show-spoof "pHrenzy." The Bastion caught their production of "Jerkology" not long ago and had a pretty swell time.

Friday nights at 8:00 and 10:30, catch Edge Comedy's stand-up at Kitty Moon (6237 N. Clark) and toddle across the street to Pressure (6318 N. Clark) Saturday nights at 8:30 and 11:00 for the Stand-Up Squeeze.

Plus, just for fun, some random stuff we found online:
"Top 10 Ways to Look Like a Total Toolbag."
"Caught on Tape: Five Greatest Gamer Freakouts."
Weinermobile parks on Michigan Avenue, gets ticket.
Lindsay Lohan's used pizza boxes for sale.
Huge Lego man found floating in Dutch sea.

(EDIT: The Think Tank show does not actually open until August 17, next weekend. FYI.)

- Elizabeth McQuern