Unamerican

Adam Burke has lived in America for decades, but his stage presence retains the unbothered weariness of an immigrant watching a house fire from across the lawn. Rather than leaning on easy outrage, he treats American life like a strange anthropological study he stumbled into by accident. Filmed at The Den Theatre in Chicago and directed by Jeremy Essig, the 41-minute set was released in late 2025 by Comedy Dynamics. Burke was already well established as a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! and a longtime fixture of Chicago rooms. Here, his material moves between Amerigo Vespucci, therapy jargon, true-crime fandom, and self-driving cars, carried along by patient pacing and dry skepticism.