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“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic...a leading house of improvisation.” - The New York Times
Take a brief respite from the horrors of living in this crumbling empire we call the USA and experience the SLOP. Featuring never-before-seen sketches, wild style improv comedy, and so many surprise guests you'll inhale your "I Voted" sticker from gasping!
Pump Up: The Jam is a weekly improv mic hosted by William Banks and Tej Khanna where anyone can put their name in and perform improv in a mash up group with other comedians.
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
Performers get 3 minute slots to try their material out with little pops from After School Special in between. Show off standup, sketch, a character, or even a little poem you've been working on. There is a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY FOR BIGOTED MATERIAL.
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
If improv is cocaine, then this is crack!
Shaunak and Piper are partners in comedy and in real life, and they're here to do two-person longform improv for you!
The Good Time is a fully improvised show based on one suggestion from the audience. The Good Time is a team made up of Chicago improv veterans who have performed at The Second City, iO Chicago, The Annoyance, Logan Square Improv.
Openers: TBA
When two people decide to chase their dreams, they get really famous. Are they siblings? Are they lovers? What’s with the questions?
Do you hear the harmony...? The correct answer is no, you don't hear a thing. Because this isn't musical improv, and because these three improv teams have been buzzing at a frequency of 639 Hz since their serendipitous first show alongside each other.
What do you do when the world feels crazy? Turn to clown!
Featuring: TBD
Come kiki with the clowns at BCC for free at this party and mixer!
FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
Descend. Join the freaks of the BCC for a night of mania. All new wild-ass improvised sketches every week. Welcome to hell, it’s a party.
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic.” - The New York Times
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
Welcome to BABES! An improv show featuring students & grads of the BCC on Friday nights. Catch some of the best rising teams from the BCC at our new space The Pig Pen. It’s time for the community to fuck around, mess around, and be a god-damn lunatics. By that, we mean do improv.
Featuring: What if we Kissed, Candlelit Hot Dog Dinner for Two, Shareholders
Come check out the premiere Gay Guy Improv troupe debut at BCC!!!!!!!
Featuring: Courtney O’Donnell, Chika
"Disco Horses" is an absurd sketch comedy duo comprised of Joe Harrington and Eric Greenbaum. Fresh off of their run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where they received glowing reviews, this show is silly, high-concept, and surprisingly smart.
ANNOYING is a fully improvised show by a long-standing group of performers who met at Annoyance Theater NYC many, many years ago.
Matt Koff (@mattkoff), winner of “New York’s Funniest Standup” at 2023 New York Comedy Fest, does an hour that will prove, once and for all, that he is the funniest standup on Planet Earth. Hosted by Courtney Maginnis (@courtmaginnis)
2023 CBS showcase girlies and certified freaks Alise Morales and Jetta Juriansz invite you to present your weirdest 3 minutes of characters at this bucket open mic. Seriously - the weirder the better. Just don't be racist.
We've heard your cries for MORE IMPROV. And we are thrilled to announce the Forever Jam, a jam open to current and past BCC improv students... because we're all students of commedia starting NOW and forever. Come get your reps done in an all-levels friendly space!
Free for BCC Students w/ suggested donation to Div. Scholarship!
Name a more iconic duo than a twink and a redhead… You can’t! Grant & Ash, known famously online as the comedy pair 'A Twink and a Redhead,’ will tell the story of their lives through the power of song and dance.
All black and all about that sauce. Branded Silk is composed of Onyi Okoli, Jeffrey Kitt, and Aaron LaRoche. Using the slacker improv form, the trio explores and creates worlds lampooning the realities and absurdities of being black in the world and when it's not that, it's just plain ole' dumb funny improv stuff. Come thru!
Come as an audience, leave as a family.
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only. Each week a cast member gets to play team captain and decide what special rules for that show would make them laugh. Sit back, relax, and watch the chaos unfold.
Opener: The Clergy
Grab the chicas and dig into a night of comedy and sisterhood with Fareeha Khan, Rachel Pegram and Rachel Joravsky, as they provide you with their finest 20 minutes of comedy. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll leave with matching ass tatz.
School's in session! Come watch BCC teachers fuck up everything they teach in this wild-style improv show, followed by an improv jam featuring anyone who wants to play onstage with our teachers! Feat. a post-show improv jam with the teachers!
Noelle and Sophia are respectively turning 25, which added together is 50. We'll be doing improv with our valued and talented friends.
Lewis, the most mysterious improv team in the world, is bringing in a LIVE psychic to read the future of one lucky audience member.
Pat Wise pits players against each other in this wicked test of improv prowess with a twist that might just flip the whole game on its head(s).
Name a more iconic duo than a twink and a redhead… You can’t! Grant & Ash, known famously online as the comedy pair 'A Twink and a Redhead,’ will tell the story of their lives through the power of song and dance.
Pump Up: The Jam is a weekly improv mic hosted by William Banks and Tej Khanna where anyone can put their name in and perform improv in a mash up group with other comedians.
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
Full of Bones is an improv team forged from the depths of hell, but this fall season, they're learning the art of gratitude.
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