Fireworks are more important than Comedy!!! No shows from Thursday July 4th - Sunday July 7th. Enjoy the long weekend, soak in the sun :)
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!
Featuring: I'm So Happy, The 96 Bulls, clint
It’s over. America and Seerat are done. The breakup was not amicable. This variety show is the aftermath of that breakup.
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.
8 Improvisors, 1 Musical Director (Adrien Pellerin), Create a fully improvised Musical based on audience suggestions.
“Your Mutual Friend” produces a comedy show. By the end, your mutual friend turns into your friend.
Fun and Dumb is a 4-day improv festival celebrating all things improv, the silly stupid good stuff we just can't get enough of!
America’s first daytime talk show hosted by a woman named Naomi Daniels!
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!
Featuring: Full of Bones, The Go Go Gos, The Clique
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.
In this Close Quarters improv set, follow Horseshoe Theory as they improvise an unforgettable summer vacation.
It's a stand-up show that we try to film well, and that means the comedians do some of their best camera-ready material!
Joe Harrington and Eric Greenbaum use their unique voices to bring you some of the most original sketches in NYC right now (maybe even the world).
A comedy about living life as a movie... and failing.
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
A live show where Song Ad Libs are Rated and Debated!
3 teams of improvisers will be challenged to tag into and continue the SAME scene in a feat of athletic improv prowess fit for field day!
Retreat is a fully immersive, once-in-a-lifetime wellness opportunity you DO NOT want to miss
Come see the stand-up show where the athletes are the comedians, and you, the audience, are their biggest fans!
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!
Exhilarating stand up comedy with brand new jokes by Sara Hennessey, Clare O’Kane, Mara Wiles, Nick Naney, Hanna Gerlander, & Fareeha Khan!
After a coup d’état cancelled the closing night of her middle school musical, Sila experiences her own version of her family inheritance — living through military takeovers.
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: TBA
It's 2025... You're at BCC... And Rachel Berry suddenly has access to Chappell Roan's discography.
Join Jasper as he guides you through the ups and downs of death, and helps you make the most of being alive.
In 1975, Clarice changed the course of comedy forever by creating an entirely new form: a series of brief comedic vignettes that came to be known as “sketches.”
Paulette stumbles into a theater full of the most people he’s ever seen, and he doesn’t know whether to panic or mingle.
Give us an example of something human you did this week, and we’ll turn it into a full set of improv comedy!
Rainbow Riot celebrates the joys of Blackness and Queerness in Comedy.
Willa does 30 minutes of stand-up comedy for her 30th birthday
Featuring: Anthony Walley, Emily Baker, Jack Norris, and Kayla Kirk.
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!
Featuring: I'm So Happy, The 96 Bulls, 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.
A wealthy Rhode-Island couple stumbles into a life-altering argument on a boat they rarely ever use.
Mike Weiss is a strong clown. In this hour, he will answer one question: what is strength?
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
In her solo show, Sara Schaefer teaches you how to unlock your potential in this fake(?) seminar about defeating your hecklers, developing your TS (thick skin) and achieving total perfect comedy success.
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!
~A SOLO~SHOW~TOLD~IN~STANDUP~SONG~DANCE~CHARACTERS~WORDS~MUSIC~
Featuring: Erik Martini
Petty Claims is a live comedy relationship show where two close friends argue with each other with the help of comedians!
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: TBA
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.
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
This genre-defying work explores what happens when two best friends who do everything together attempt to do a one woman show...together.
Tickets: $10 in Advance / $15 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
Tickets: $12 in Advance / $17 Day of Show
Tickets: $10 in Advance / $15 Day of Show
Everyone must play mommy.
Come watch a live episode of Grey's Anatomy- the longest-running scripted primetime medical drama- UNSCRIPTED.
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!
Featuring: Full of Bones, The Go Go Gos, The Clique
Three improv groups consisting of three people each all show off their own personal brand of improv.
Inspired by the perfectly legal, non-traumatizing reality show Dance Moms, BOB will perform improv while––as our moms-–we comment on our own performances.
Six friends explore the human condition through the splendid art form of improv.
Extraordinary Machine is a dynamic, hour-long vaudeville-inspired carnie comedy show, where comic turned-ring leader, Emily Villarreal embarks upon on a quest to highlight the talents of comics so freak-ishly talented they actually defy the laws of nature.
With bio queen realness, high-camp and good-old fashioned physical comedy, West is on full display through the lens of a true commedienne .
An unpredictable comedy show about cardboard boxes and nothing else.
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: Scottsdale, No Reservations, Little Darlings
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: TBA
Students from Section 2 of BCC’s Clown Intensive show off what they've learned in their jam packed week!
Students from the Summer Improv Intensive: Levels 2 & 3 Class, instructed by Maya Sharma, Julian Hernandez, and Devin Bockrath display their hard work in this final class show!
These veteran improvisers and long time friends deliver fast-paced, wild style, Deep-Dish, Chicago Style Improv.
Students from Section 1 of BCC’s Clown Intensive show off what they've learned in their jam packed week!
Students from the Summer Improv Intensive: Levels 1 & 2 Class, instructed by Taylor Gonzalez and Maya Sharma display their hard work in this final class show!
Legendary improv duo Mike Jest & John Randall do forty five minutes of the Chicago-style comedy!
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.
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!
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 Sketch Level 2 Class, instructed by Nick Mestad, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Eliza will attempt to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony in just one hour. Can she do it? Objectively, no. But it’ll be fun to watch her try.
You read right: 100 people will get the chance to gam out on the Mainstage pride style. Stick around after to dance and hang with 100 gammers.
Pre-order a limited edition “Yes, And…I’m Gay Pride” shirt!
Tickets: 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.
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
Virgin sacrifices and sexual… tension! It’s pride. It’s Jennifer’s Body, Rocky Horror shadow cast style.
It's tarot cards, it's Brooklyn, it's improv — it's the moment.
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
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