Can the fabled troupe make jokes that both sides of the aisle will find funny?

With stand-up, sketch comedy, and song, six men and women take the audience on a two hour journey through the concept of blackness in America. It is both hilarious and bittersweet.

This is what happens when a Second City show comes to D.C.: CHAOS.

The cast of Woolly’s “Barack Stars”. Written by DCist contributor Monica Shores Woolly Mammoth shouldn’t have trouble selling tickets to its current show, Barack Stars; the reputation of Chicago’s Second City comedy group will do most of the work. The legendary improv school fostered the careers of entertainers like Stephen Colbert and Dan Castellaneta (the voice of Homer Simpson), and regularly supplies members for the cast of “Saturday Night Live,” from Tina Fey to…