It's no joke. Boom Chicago, an Amsterdam improv theater, is churning out American comedy legends.

It's no joke. Boom Chicago, an Amsterdam improv theater, is churning out American comedy legends.

Some of the biggest American comics have gotten their starts at Boom Chicago, an Amsterdam improv theater. Seth Meyers, Jordan Peele, Amber Ruffin and Jason Sudeikis have all cracked jokes there.

U.S. news show 60 Minutes reveals how Amsterdam’s Boom Chicago shapes American comedy

Since Boom Chicago’s launch over 30 years ago, the Amsterdam improv comedy theater has helped advance the careers of big names, like Jordan Peele, Jason Sudeikis, Amber Ruffin, Brendan Hunt, and Seth Meyers. The theater’s founders, Andrew Moskos and Pep Rosenfeld, found a clever way to stay in the Dutch capital when the two Americans opened the venue in 1993. They’ve certainly come far in that time, with the theater profiled over the weekend by …