South Side Is An Inside Joke Even Outsiders Will Get

    Comedy Central’s South Side isn’t interested in making north-siders—or any nonsouth-side Chicagoan, for that matter—laugh, but it’s sure to get plenty of kicks out of them anyway. 

South Side’s Englewood isn’t the Englewood in Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq or even the one shown on the local TV news. This Englewood still struggles with violence, but it also has a community of people who love each other, hate on each other, or “treat” each other, as south- and west-siders would say, and hustle nonstop. We see Rent-T-Own’s Englewood employees beef with workers at the west-side franchise, a very Chicago rivalry nonnatives would likely not be aware of. 

The Comedy Central series airs Wednesdays at 9:30 PM. Catch episode seven of ten on September 4.