Comedy troupes GayCo Productions and Schadenfreude couldn’t have dreamed up a more appropriate title for Chicago’s first Political Comedy Festival than This Country is F$cked! Presented along with the Crossroads Foundation, this show features each troupe’s biting satire, plus a few guests to help keep you laughing as you cry into your beer over the country’s economic and political situation. This Country is F$cked! plays 8 and 11 p.m., Oct. 18 and 25 at the Lakeshore Theater, 3175 N. Broadway. Tickets are $20; call 773-472-3492 or visit www.lakeshoretheater.com. Photo by Kirk Williamson