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SEASON
SIX does
long form comedy improv.
We take an audience suggestion, explore the idea space around it, and
create a world of sincere character progression inspired by that. We
do this using a type of long form improv called "The Harold".
What all this means in non-improv talk is basically that we are
going to act out three different story lines, making them up as we go,
and then interweave them and tie them together in ways that generally
surprise the hell out of us even as we're doing it. |
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A
non-motivational speaker, BRIAN
LONGWELL
asks the profoundly important question: why work? Brian
Longwell has an MS in electrical engineering and spent 11 years working
for AT&T’s Bell Laboratories. After realizing that he had successfully
burned his career path bridges before crossing them (his performance reviews
frequently stated that he was “disruptive at meetings”), he
left and started his own design consulting company which has employees,
vacation policies, and Mr. Longwell vaguely in charge.
Parallel to all of this, Mr. Longwell has worked as a professional comedian,
successful enough to fund the formation of Special Projects Group, which
in turn has been successful enough to allow him to return to performing
so that he can once again fund the company to keep it open. |
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!POPPYCOCK!
We begin with an energetic almost vaudevillian comedy riff on a flurry
of suggestions from the audience - - and then expand into an improvised
absurdist play where we expand on the characters and themes you met earlier
in the show. |
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Jim
Doyle and Austin Bragg, offer up to you GRIMPROV:
the improvised comedy show that starts with a funeral, ends with a death
and in between celebrates the life of an audience member by mocking everything
they hold dear. |
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BABY
WANTS CANDY
is a Chicago based ensemble that has amazed audiences around the world
with the completely improvised hour-long musical. BWC gets a title for
a musical that has never been performed before and in that moment they
create the plot,characters, musical accompaniment, lyrics and choreography.
Everything is completely made up on the spot.
BWC
has performed around the world and has had an open run in Chicago for
the last 9 years. BWC was named 'Best Improv Troupe' by Chicago Magazine,
'Best Visiting Comedy Act' Time Out New York, and 'Ensemble of the Year'
at the Chicago Improv Festival. |
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THE
UPRIGHT CITIZEN'S BRIGADE TOURING COMPANY
is proud to present an evening of patently hilarious longform improv comedy
from the nation's leading venue for alternative comedy, the Upright Citizens
Brigade Theatre.
Experience a show that has never been seen and will never be seen again
as the UCB TourCo weaves mind-blowing series of scenes all based on your
suggestions. The cast of the TourCo is hand picked from the best improv
comedians in Los Angeles and New York City - proven performers who've
trained for years and made their way up the comedy ladder in the toughest
cities in the nation.
Cast credits include Late Night with Conan O'Brien, the Daily Show with
Jon Stewart, Comedy Central's Showbiz Show, MTV's Boiling Points, VH1's
Best Week Ever, VH1's Awesomely Bad series and many other fantastic television
programs. |
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Winners
of the first-ever Sketch Fights competition at Carolines on Broadway,
claiming the title of 'New York City's Best Comedy Writers,' ELEPHANT
LARRY
has been tearing up the hyper-competitive New York comedy scene for the
last three years. In May of 2004, they were selected out of hundreds of
comedians as one of Back Stage's Top 10 Comedy Best Bets 2004.
In June of 2004, they became the only comedy group in America to win both
the Audience and Jury Awards at the Bass Red Triangle Comedy Competition.
Elephant Larry has been a Time Out New York 'Don't Miss' critic's pick,
and the New York Times called the group, 'Fresh and out of left field...
One of the city's better sketch groups!' |
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POW:
PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES WORKSHOP
If
you've ever been bored by a dry, stale work training seminar then you'll
love this show. POW: The Professional Opportunities Workshop is a 'business
seminar' where you'll learn valuable skills for presenting confidently
in front of groups, handling and becoming the very best suck-up you can
be! OK, you probably won't learn anything, but you will laugh all the
way through this parody. If only HR rules didn't prevent the workplace
from being this hilarious.
Your
POW instructors will be Matt Oberg (Chappelle's Show) and Bob Wiltfong
(The Daily Show with Jon Stewart). Come see first-hand why POW has been
selling out wherever it goes and why Time Out New York recently called
it “one of the best comedy shows in the country.” |
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THE
CODY RIVERS SHOW
is
a dazzling sketch comedy act that delivers the most imaginative, diverse,
and exhilarating material around. The tireless cast of two throws a stunning
array of dance, music, physical comedy and vivid characterizations in
audiences’ faces with intelligent care and professional skill. The
show began at midnights at Bellingham Washington's iDiOM Theater (www.idimotheater.com),
and in one year grew from modest cult-inspiring experiment to mind-slaughtering
sell-out hit. The duo continues to perform regularly in Bellingham and
Seattle and is touring nationally in 2006, including stops at San Francisco
Sketchfest, The Miami Improv Festival, Vancouver Sketchfest, the Victoria
Fringe Festival, Sketchfest Seattle, the Vancouver Fringe Festival, and
the 23rd Annual Northwest New Works Festival at Seattle’s On The
Boards Theater. |
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SOMEBODY'S
IN THE DOGHOUSE is
Leah Gotcsik and Marty Johnson. Since 2003, they have been performing
at venues and festivals all over the country and writing funny stuff that
you may have seen on HBO or NESN. They wrote their current sketch show,
Driven, Not Scared, in different states and time zones. Come see how they
use audio, video, and high-energy live performance to travel from the
nuns of New Hampshire to the gorillas of San Francisco. Oh, Koko."
Leah and Marty's sharp dialogue, wholly original characters, and outrageous
physicality create a show that is refreshingly different and very funny."
-Chet Harding, Producer, 2005 Boston Comedy Festival Sketch Showcase |
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ONETWOTHREE's
show is a collection of scenes exploring the loss of innocence in modern
times. The trio combines childlike naivete with adult themes creating
a dark and fragile world where nothing is what it seems and everything
is on the verge of collapse.
From a jilted Tooth Fairy to a chivalrous mortician, the show examines
unconventional subjects, allowing audiences to laugh at our most uncomfortable
moments. |
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FEARSOME
is an explosion of six TV-raised minds and five Bachelor’s Degrees.
Together since 2002, this celebrated sketch group is renowned for their
fast-paced, continuous stream of comedy consciousness.
Leaving the traditional "sketch, blackout, sketch" formula,
FEARSOME seamlessly melts scene into scene, taking their audience on an
uproarious, action-packed journey into the ridiculous. Fluid and fierce,
FEARSOME shows are unlike anything else on the sketch scene. |
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The
sketch comedy of UPHILL
BOTH WAYS combines
sharp original writing and surprising choices with fast-paced physical
comedic timing.
Always daring, high energy and bold, the prolific group has written and
performed 219 original comedy skits to date, tackling such hot topics
as spleen stealing ATM fees, the entire life cycle of a fruit fly in 3
minutes (from birth to marriage to divorce to bug spray), the musical
song-and-dance audition of Pope Benedict XVl, an office outbreak of airborne
carpal tunnel virus, and metrosexual pirates...to name just a few.
UBW has performed at numerous national festivals in NYC, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago and Vancouver. |
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Are
very funny people from Cleveland Ohio . . . |
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DCUP
's show "The Mullet" is a combination of short and longform
improv comedy with an edge of sassy depravity. DCUP has performed all
around North America, and a lot South of the Potomac (they are home based
right here at The Comedy Spot in Arlington). DCUP won the Battle of the
Comedy at the DC Improv in 2003, and the DCCF Improv Rumble last year.
Their show "Boneless Chicken Cabaret" is opening for Emo Philips
as part of this year's DCCF. |
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