Students from the Sketch Level 2 Class, instructed by Nick Mestad, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Maya Sharma, 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 Wed Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Taylor Gonzalez, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Wed Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Taylor Gonzalez, 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: SLOP
A dark comedy about nuns. Hold onto your freaking hat.
Audiences write REAL SECRETS, we create a MUSICAL on the spot.
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.
A high energy competition that finally answers the question "can comedians dance."
Students from Broken Box's Mime Class show off what they've learned over the past 5 weeks.
Students from the Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Molly Ledbetter, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
The best improv team in the world is back this month for another epic comedy explosion—featuring improv from Boy Basement!
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!
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 Micah Sterenberg, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
It’s a real-life Hunger Games out there, but BCC's 2025 Sketch Revue has the power to change all that!
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”.
Students from the Stand Up Level 1 Class, instructed by Yedoye Travis, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
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.
Opener: Candlelit hot dog dinner for two
Students from the Clown Level 3 Class, instructed by Tallie Medel, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks! (Show 1 of 2)
A lip-synced performance of SATC Season 1 Episode 11 "The Drought". One drag queen, four hard front wigs, the greatest story ever told.
Real-life married couple Piper Ruhmkorff and Shaunak Godkhindi have been performing improv together for 10 years and now comprise the duo Ice Cream Near Me Open Now, named for their most commonly searched phrase on Google Maps.
They say that tragedy + time = comedy, so let’s skip to the comedy part.
Students from the Advanced Personal Notes Class, instructed by BCC Artistic Director Philip Markle, show off their hard work.
Students from the Clown Level 2 Class, instructed by Chris Manley, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Sketch Level 2 Class, instructed by Nick Mestad, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Sunday Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Micah Sterenberg, 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.
Students from the Clown Level 1 Class, instructed by Riley Soloner, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Improv Level 2 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: TBA
Students from the Musical Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Ali Reed, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Improv Level 3 Class, instructed by Maria Randazzo, 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 Wednesday Stand Up Level 1 Class, instructed by Sara Hennessey, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Clown Level 1 Class, instructed by Julian Hernandez , show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Come be unapologetically [insert non-white race here] and unapologetically goofy on stage with us on the 4th Friday of each month at 7pm at the BCC Pig Pen!
Free for BCC Students w/ suggested donation to Div. Scholarship!
Students from the Saturday Stand Up Level 1 Class, instructed by Sara Hennessey, 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.
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!
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!
These veteran improvisers and long time friends deliver fast-paced, wild style, Deep-Dish, Chicago Style Improv.
It’s a real-life Hunger Games out there, but BCC's 2025 Sketch Revue has the power to change all that!
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.
Opener: The Family Men
Students from the Clown Level 3 Class, instructed by Tallie Medel, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks! (Show 2 of 2)
Students from the Improv Level 3 Class, instructed by Julian Hernandez, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
A laugh-out-loud, knee-slapping, hour-long musical journey.
Students from the Clown Level 1 Class, instructed by Tallie Medel, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Witness literal stand-up, sketch, improv, and more under the watchful eye of the beautiful, female mouse Stacey Little.
Featuring: Anne Lim, Jack Bensinger, Bini Yamin, Dorian Debose
Don't worry we've made LAUGHING on SUNDAYS legal again!
Check into the White Lotus for an improvised musical full of glamour, intrigue, and murder!
on this holy festival day, we go to clint church, an improv happening so quick and so fun that by the end you will see god aka clint.
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.
Come watch as Cooked Up performs their favorite sketches from the last 2 years, with a solo performance by Cory Snearowski.
Breakfast Boys are a nice little improv duo who want to entertain you with a nice little show!
One year ago, Boobie Trap Sketch was born. It is our birthday. Our anniversary. Our paper year <3
Petty Claims is a live comedy relationship show where two close friends argue with each other with the help of comedians!
JoAnn Schinderle (MSNBC, VICE, SF Sketchfest, Bumbershoot) is running her new hour of standup!
Four comedians will perform in a high-stakes standup competition set against the backdrop of a luxury resort with gorgeous views, aka the Eris MainStage at Brooklyn Comedy Collective!
FISH is a one-woman clown show about a fish who wants to be a person.
A scathing review of the current state of affairs as told from the perspective of one woman pretending to be two gay boys.
Enter an unknown world of strange and silly sketch comedy specifically made for sickos and dumb dumbs.
BackDoor Comedy is headed to Brooklyn for an evening of comedy, mingling, dancing!
Check Out follows Edson on their last day in intensive outpatient rehab as their counselor, Dr. Gomez, gets them ready for discharge and set up for future success - and doing so by any means necessary.
Lil Weenieprov is a Chicago show that celebrates what we believe to be the best form of improv: smallprov!
Lil Weenieprov is a Chicago show that celebrates what we believe to be the best form of improv: smallprov!
No one makes things up like frat boyz. Come pledge at improv night in the Deep Space of the legendary “BCC fraternity.”
Opener: Skip Skip
Co-hosts of hit London alt-comedy night 'Soft Play Area' and best-friends, Maria Telnikoff and Vidya Divakaran, come together for their debut double-act comedy hour in which they play EVERY GREAT DUO IN HISTORY.
Tickets: $10 in Advance / $15 Day of Show
Tickets: $12 in Advance / $17 Day of Show
Tickets: $10 in Advance / $15 Day-of Show
Tickets: $12 in Advance / $17 Day of Show
Tickets: $10 in Advance / $15 Day of Show
Students from the Stand Up Level 2 Class, instructed by Shalewa Sharpe, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks! Show #2 of 2!
Students from the Improv Level 3 Class, instructed by Julian Hernandez, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Stand Up Level 2 Class, instructed by Shalewa Sharpe, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks! Show #1 of 2!
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!
For one night only, witness the eternal struggle of good vs. evil... but make it funny!
Baby Wants Candy is one of the best known, longest running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
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: Zebra
Catch an hour of improv from some of the best Chicago folks living in New York!
The hottest BIPOC performers in all of NYC come together on this special night to fix all the world's problems with comedy.
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!
Students from BCC’s Character Workshop class, instructed by Jamie Linn Watson, show off their hard work from the last 5 weeks.
Do you want to see the dumbest, most laugh out loud comedy acts in NYC together in one show?! This one's for you.
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.
Department of Gay Ecstasy (DOGE) is a variety comedy show making fun of our absurd political climate that we are all supposed to act normal in.
No one makes things up like frat boyz. Come pledge at improv night in the Deep Space of the legendary “BCC fraternity.”
Opener: Skip Skip
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. Guest Host: Chine Ikoro
FREE
Come to the world’s funniest most awesome comedy show, made by girls and gays for girls and gays and also everyone else.
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.
For one night only, Girl Mountain is bringing a cast of new characters to life.
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: Mosh Squad, Horseshoe Theory
A back-and-forth of music and improv that unfolds in real time.
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!
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.
Your favorite improviser's favorite improv show - Improvised Columbo. Now in its third season, cast favorites join series regulars for an absurd melodramatic, completely made-up full-length episode of the original 70s TV Series.
ANNOYING is a fully improvised show by a long-standing group of performers who met at Annoyance Theater NYC many, many years ago.
Welcome to Shoulda Coulda Woulda! Your monthly improvised love advice spectacular!
This show is going to be so sweet, it's guaranteed to leave you saying, "I'LL HAVE WHAT SHE'S HAVING!"
A live table read of a screenplay written in five hours, based on audience suggestions.
LIPGLOSS is heading to the BCC Deep Space for a night of improv, whimsy, courtship and canoodling.
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