"How Green Were My Values," 1986
"Jean Paul Sartre and Ringo," 1987
"Catch 27"
"Kuwait Until Dark" or "Bright Lights Night Baseball," 1988 Directed by Betty Thomas
All at Second City Mainstage in Chicago.
"For A Good Time Call" at Second City in California.

Bonnie , who attended her first Second City revue with her family at age 13, was instantly captivated with the process. "It was the most amazing thing I ever saw," she said in an interview. "It was the ultimate game of pretend. People from the audience were yelling out suggestions, and [the actors] were creating characters and stories and scenes right before our eyes. From that time on, I dreamed that if I could ever just work there, it would be incredible."

Bonnie joined Second City’s touring company 1986
(within a few weeks she was promoted to the troupe’s first string of performers)

LA ensemble of Second City 1988
In 1988 Bonnie joined the LA ensemble of Second City along with Don Lake, Mike Hagerty, Richard Kind, Andy Dick (who all appeared on The Building) Ryan Styles, Robin Duke, Chris Barnes, Jane Morris, John Hemphill and Andrea Martin. One of the goals was to use the ideas from the shows onstage for developing TV shows for CBS. They had offices rented in a storefront right next to the theatre, and all sat around one big table. They would then invite the network to come and watch the ideas on stage after they had done the regular show. There were a lot of conflicts with everyone and Bonnie eventually left. (Two days after leaving second city Bonnie was offered a role on "Grand.") Andrew Alexander who took the group to LA has said "We were asking them to be satirists by night and prime time sitcom writers by day. And there was in inherent conflict in that." It wasn’t too long before the Santa Monica Second City Theatre closed. Bonnie has said in an article that Second City LA didn’t do so well because LA audiences went expecting standup. ("What is this? Tell more dating jokes!") She also criticized the people running it, who attempted to use the improv shows (developed -- evolved is a better word -- over a period of months) as the basis for a TV series, which hobbled the format.

Bonnie worked as a nurse while doing Improv at Second City Chicago.

Bonnie has gone back to Second City for alum night.

On why Second City has been such a successful launching pad for many comedians:
"Because you have the best teachers in the world at Second City; the audience."

Bonnie met a lot of the people that she works with today at Second City:

DON LAKE

Don got his start performing with the famed Second City troupe in Toronto. When the improvisational company debuted in Santa Monica, California, Lake was chosen to be a part of the opening cast. It was here that he began working with Bonnie Hunt.
Writer/actor Lake most recently co-wrote MGM’s Return To Me, with Director Bonnie Hunt and appeared in the film with David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Carroll O’Connor and Hunt as the transplant guy. .
He has also co-written the script for Anniversary with Bonnie Hunt. Additional recent feature credits include such titles as Disney’s sci-fi comedy Rocketman.
In addition to Christopher Guest’s Waiting For Guffman, (which has a lot of Second City alumnae) He is in Best In show, where he is Mayflower Show Chairman Graham Chissolm, and Guest's Almost Heroes.
Lake has also starred in such films as Tristar’s Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Disney’s Super Mario Brothers, the 20th Century Fox film, Hot Shots and Police Academy.
The extensive television work to Lake’s credit includes stints as a series regular on The Bonnie Hunt Show (as Keith the next door neighbor), FBC’s Bill And Ted’s Excellent Adventure series, John Byner’s Bizarre, the CBS series The Building, and USA/Paramount’s Super Dave’s Vegas Spectacular.
Lake has also guest starred on many leading television shows, from The Martin Short Show and The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air to L. A. Law, Murphy Brown and The Golden Girls.

Lake currently lends his talents as the voice of "Mr. Finky" in Disney's popular Saturday morning cartoon Pepper Ann.
From the Best In show production information and the Return to Me MGM site.

HOLLY WORTELL
Holly is Bonnie's best friend. She continues her longtime association with Bonnie Hunt in Return To Me with her portrayal of Marsha, an irredeemably obnoxious lawyer who is an unfortunate choice of blind date for Bob Rueland. (she is also credited as Bonnie's personal assistant on the film, Bonnie told Holly to think of it as "a free paycheck.") Another Chicago native, Wortell first became interested in improvisation while at New Trier High School, continuing her studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Wortell was a founding member of the Ark Improvisational Theatre in Madison and two months after graduation, she was invited by the famed Second City to join the troupe, which later included Bonnie Hunt. Wortell spent six years with the company, first with their national touring company and then writing and performing at their resident theatre in Chicago.
Pursuing her career in Los Angeles, Wortell reunited with Hunt as a series regular on her two CBS series, The Building and The Bonnie Hunt Show as Bonnie's best friend . Wortell's other television appearances have included The Second City 25th Anniversary Show, My Talk Show and the HBO special Late Hours. She's also appeared in the popular Universal comedies, Beethoven and Beethoven's 2nd, Junior, and numerous commercials.

From the Return to Me MGM site.

For more information, get the book The Second City: Backstage at the World’s Greatest Theatre.
Sheldon Patinkin. 2000.
It has a bio with some rare Bonnie pictures of the time, and comes with 2 Cd’s featuring Bonnie singing "Up and Away" as an annoying "on hold" entertainer. It’s hilarious.