Welcome to our weekly house improv show where a rotating cast of 6 primo indie teams do some of the most GOATED improv you've ever seen!
THIS WEEK IT’S PIG TEAMS: Boy Basement, Mercy Santos, The Twinkle Brothers
Students from the Sketch Level 2 Class, instructed by Alise Morales, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Pump Up: The Jam is a weekly improv mic hosted by William Banks, Maya Sharma, 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.
Students from the Stand Up Level 2 Class, instructed by JoAnn Schinderle, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks! Show #1 of 2!
Students from the Stand Up Level 2 Class, instructed by JoAnn Schinderle, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks! Show #2 of 2!
Students from the Wednesday Stand Up Level 1 Class, instructed by Sara Hennessey, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
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: The Bisque, Winnie Stack & John Randall
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.
"Baby, what do you mean you're leaving this dinner/date/meeting/escape room early to go to Lisa Zheutlin and Alex McMullen's Variety Show?!"
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.
FREE
This feel good ensemble will have you laughing, gasping, and definitely shaking your head like, “Oh, Shooty…”
Students from the Clown Level 2 Class, instructed by Chris Manley, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
ANNOYING is a fully improvised show by a long-standing group of performers who met at Annoyance Theater NYC many, many years ago.
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, Wednesday section, instructed by Maya Sharma, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Two Home Grown Musical Improv teams take Your audience suggestions to create an evening of Improvised Musical Magic.
Your favorite improv teams Go Dummy and Full of Bones combine forces for a night of laugh-out-loud improv comedy.
SLEIGH QUEEN is a sketch show inspired by your favorite holiday films.
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only.
Opener: Big Little Guys
Baby Wants Candy is one of the best known, longest running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
For one night only, this cast of prancing reindeer will perform an hour-long improvised holiday movie based on your suggestion
Students from Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Molly Ledbetter, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Enjoy a comedy spectacular before everyone you know heads home for the holidays, from our family to yours.
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!
Students from the Level Class, instructed by Riley Soloner , show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: TBA
Rainbow Riot celebrates the joys of Blackness and Queerness in Comedy.
Students from the Tuesday Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Taylor Gonzalez, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Thursday Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Taylor Gonzalez, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Onyi Okoli, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Come celebrate the Holidays at the only talk show set in purgatory!
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Devin Bockrath, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Improv Level 3 Class, instructed by John Randall, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
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.
Pump Up: The Jam is a weekly improv mic hosted by William Banks, Maya Sharma, 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.
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Maya Sharma, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Cast members bring ideas from improv sets previously performed, and rehearse, refine, and crystallize them into their sketch form to ensure maximum energy and vulgarity.
Students from the Improv Level 3 Class, instructed by Maria Randazzo, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
No one makes things up like frat boyz. Come pledge at improv night in the Deep Space of the legendary “BCC fraternity.”
Students from the Stand Up Level 1 Class, instructed by Sara Hennessey, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #3 of 3!
Join Paul Bearers for our annual White Elephant, where we'll give each other gifts that we HAVE to use onstage
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Miranda Rozas, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Sketch Level 1 Class, instructed by Devin Bockrath, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
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: Caitlin Hollis & Hannah Rehak, The worlds most interesting sisters
Students from the Clown Level 1 Class, instructed by Tallie Medel, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Stand Up Level 1 Class, instructed by Shalewa Sharpe, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
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.
Students from the Sketch Level 2 Class, instructed by Alise Morales, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Santa Claus is coming to the BCC Mainstage in this clown show where you’ll discover the true meaning of Christmas.
These veteran improvisers and long time friends deliver fast-paced, wild style, Deep-Dish, Chicago Style Improv.
Legendary improv duo Mike Jest & John Randall do forty five minutes of the Chicago-style comedy!
Whatever your obsession, “Obsessed with Us” will interview you (or another audience member) about it — then do a fully improvised long-form show based on that interview!
The best improv team in the world is back this month with a seasonal special.
Fast paced, high energy, and filled to the brim with chaos, NYC’s premiere improv team Duchovny presents “Improv Night in America”! A show dedicated to the moments in our life that would be perfect for “America’s Funniest Home Videos”.
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only.
Opener: TBA
From The Daily Show's Lily Blumkin (@lilyblumkin) comes a hilarious solo show about growing up and getting worse.
Live music, a bar ten steps away, and "one of the most entertaining improv shows in the world," - Santa Claus & Moses.
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: TBA
Welcome to BABES! An improv show featuring students & grads of the BCC training center. Catch some of the best rising teams from the BCC. It’s time for the community to fuck around, mess around, and be a god-damn lunatics. By that, we mean do improv.
Featuring: Granny Fully Loaded, Oof, Plan C
Students from the Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #2 of 3!
A brilliantly bizarre live fever dream where comedy, chaos, clown, clever stupidity and sincere nonsense collide.
What do you do when the world feels crazy? Turn to clown!
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only.
Opener: Gerdy
For his 40th bday, Founder of the BCC Philip Markle gets roasted alive by comedians and friends. Come toast his mid-life crisis!
Devon + Co. return for another spectacular night of original sketches, stand up comedy, interactive games in celebration of the birthday!
Come join us at BCC on Dec 6th as we try to bring the Holiday Spirit to NYC!!
Sebastian, Pearl, and Maya welcome all queer identifying improvisers to BCC’s monthly queer improv jam
Eight Grinches take the stage, to do improv most foul. Eight comedians clad in green, to make you laugh and howl.
It's gonna be full of holly, jolly, and fun so only miss it if you have a lot of that already
It’s the Holidays and Donna’s Beef have got a big Secret Santa celebration!!!
Beloved sketch group BOOBIE TRAP presents a beautiful end of year variety show with their extended family!
BCC is thrilled to announce our new podcast F*CK IT / LOVE IT, all about platforming the community at the BCC and our ethos of not taking ourselves too seriously (f*ck it) and loving what we do and everyone we do it with (love it).
Hosted by Philip Markle and Maya Sharma and featuring CHICKEN BIG (@chickenbigcomedy) + 5-min of stand-up from Katherine Gorham (@katherine_gorham)
YOU the audience will share a tale of being ghosted, and our improv mediums will reveal their whereabouts!
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.
Do you like laughing? Do you like doing good? What if I told you both were possible AT THE SAME TIME???
Bah humbug! SLOP & Friends will kill that rat bastard Ebenezer Scrooge who keeps totally fucking up the vibes this holiday season.
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: Former Child, Stress Dream
Students from BCC's Character Workshop class, instructed by Jamie Linn Watson, show off their hard work from the last 5 weeks.
Students from the Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #1 of 3!
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.
Pump Up: The Jam is a weekly improv mic hosted by William Banks, Maya Sharma, 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.
Welcome to our weekly house improv show where a rotating cast of 6 primo indie teams do some of the most GOATED improv you've ever seen!
THIS WEEK IT’S DOG TEAMS: GUPS, Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan, Not Like Other Girls
Students from Broken Box's Mime Class Level 1 show off what they've learned over the past 5 weeks.
No shows this week! Go ahead and eat food and buy a tv and blast off!!!! We’ll see you in December (the winter’s month).
Cup Of Worms proudly presents, Clownucopia, an hour long Thanksgiving-inspired clown show where the giggles and the gobbles are aplenty.
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