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: HAPPY TO BE HERE, CANDLE AND LANTERN, STROKE
Come laugh, dramatically gasp, win a prize, forgive yourself for being weird, but probably mostly laugh.
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.
You love Gay Guy Improv….. and now it’s monthly….. and now imagine us with a special guest each month!
As seen on ‘America's Got Talent', Chicken Big Goes Weekly at the BCC!
Gather round our campfire to see what sketches Bundle and Save have cooked up for their third mainstage show.
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: Our First Fight, AM 2 PM
Sociology meets Family Feud in a manic, fever dream, game show.
As featured in the The New York Times….come 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.
Tickets: FREE
"Chic" is an adjective meaning stylish, smart, and currently fashionable. All words that also aptly describe our sketch comedy.
Does it stand for "Thank God It's Friday" or "Thank God It's Funny"... we'll never know. But we do know it's improv every Friday @ 7pm!
Maya and Pearl welcome all queer identifying improvisers to BCC’s monthly queer improv jam
If you’re looking for a beefy, juicy improv night, this is the show for you.
Extra Guests, Extra fun, and FREE DESSERT!! Come on by to laugh while you eat cake you didn’t have to pay for.
¿Qué? is a Spanish-speaking improv team with one white guy who doesn’t speak any Spanish. It’s comedy anyone can understand!
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!
Strip down and crash out with Chicago ex-pats Francesca Bucci and Hails Reeves.
New York's funniest comedians will make you laugh with hilarious material they usually save for their besties.
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: Tummy Troubles
Leave the irony at the door, honey. It's Gay Church! Hosted by Art. Director of BCC: Philip Sparkle!
Have you ever been at a variety show and thought to yourself, "I'm hungry.." ? Well, come eat.
After some sketch from the Disco Horses, watch the girls of Gag Reflex do an hour of improv!
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!
From the tortured mind of the other, other Wachowski sister (Nannearl) comes a film that finally answers the question "what if The Matrix was about Caitlyn Jenner?"
Sports are cool and all but stand-up comedy is cooler!!
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: Karishma Maraj, Clay Horwitz, Noah Friend
Students from the Musical Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Katy Berry, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
After a successful first show, it’s time for Philip to “Reheat his month old nachos” with a brand new hour of Pop(Ken) Culture.
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: CAMELOT, BUCKET TV, IMPROVISED COLUMBO
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.
Watch as four total changemakers elevate the improv form and inspire a revolution.
Students from the Stand-up Level 1 Class, instructed by JoAnn Schinderle, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Improv Level 3 Class, instructed by Tej Khanna show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
As seen on ‘America's Got Talent', Chicken Big Goes Weekly at the BCC!
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: Rat Pageant, Christine and Andy
Students from Clown Level 1, instructed by Tallie Medel, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Wednesday Clown Level 1 Class, instructed by Hannah Mitchell, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
As featured in the The New York Times….come 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.
Tickets: FREE
Does it stand for "Thank God It's Friday" or "Thank God It's Funny"... we'll never know. But we do know it's improv every Friday @ 7pm!
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
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 BCC's Character Workshop class, instructed by Jamie Linn Watson, show off their hard work from the last 5 weeks.
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 Musical Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Ali Reed, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Sign up promptly at 6:15 pm to snag a spot and your hosts, Katy and Ali, will match you with your perfect partners to perform scenes-into songs with a special prompt.
Free for BCC Students w/ suggested donation to Div. Scholarship!
Your favorite improv teams Go Dummy and Full of Bones combine forces for a night of laugh-out-loud improv comedy.
DELI MILK is a brand new hour of sketch comedy, come see it before it ages poorly.
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only.
Opener: California Twin
Friends will become lovers, lovers will become fiends, and at the end of the day all we can do is laugh.
Baby Wants Candy is one of the best known, longest running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Micah Sterenberg, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Sketch Level 1 Class, instructed by Alise Morales, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Rainbow Riot celebrates the joys of Blackness and Queerness in Comedy.
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: Zach Schiffman, Emily Walsh, Soph, Saheim James-Patrick
Students from the Thursday Clown Level 2 Class, instructed by Chris Manley, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Clown Level 1 Class, instructed by Jeff Seal, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
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: HAPPY TO BE HERE, CANDLE AND LANTERN, STROKE
Students from the Saturday Clown Level 1 Class, instructed by Hannah Mitchell, 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.
No one makes things up like frat boyz. Come reunite with your college besties at improv night at the BCC Frat Haus.
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!
As seen on ‘America's Got Talent', Chicken Big Goes Weekly at the BCC!
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: Tupperware Party, Not Like Other Girls
Students from the Stand-Up Level 2 Class, instructed by Shalewa Sharpe, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
A bunch of over-dramatic high schoolers in a drama club celebrating their closing night the only way they know how... through partying!
As featured in the The New York Times….come 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.
Tickets: FREE
Students from Improv Level 1 Class on Wednesdays, instructed by Molly Ledbetter, 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!
Hosted by and featuring Devon Arnold, the variety show returns to celebrate Juneteenth + Pride (for obvious reasons) with original sketches, interactive games, and special guest comedians.
Students from the Monday section Improv Level 1, instructed by Molly Ledbetter, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Ever faced impossible odds? Stomach in knots? Needing a miracle? Attorney and comedian Andrea Coleman hilariously recounts three thrilling trials from her career and the unexpected Divine communication that made her a courtroom “Killer.”
Students from BCC’s Improv 1 Intensive w/ Taylor Gonzalez show-off what they've learned in their jam-packed week!
Students from BCC’s Clown Intensive (Sec. 2) w/ Jeff show-off what they've learned in their jam-packed week!
Students from BCC’s Clown Intensive (Sec. 1) w/ Tallie show-off what they've learned in their jam-packed week!
Students from BCC’s Improv 2 Intensive w/ Maya Sharma show-off what they've learned in their jam-packed week!
Students from the Musical Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Ali Reed, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Things are moving quickly this Pride. Hop in our u-haul for a night of improv comedy inspired by our favorite queer theme: relationships.
Come witness the sheer majesty of The Slaysians: New York City’s first all-queer and all-Asian improv team!
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: TBD
Students from the Wednesday Clown Level 2 Class, instructed by Chris Manley, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
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: CAMELOT, BUCKET TV, IMPROVISED COLUMBO
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.
A comedy infused with puppetry, drama, and a little bit of showgirl magic.
As seen on ‘America's Got Talent', Chicken Big Goes Weekly at the BCC!
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: John Randall Duo, Middle Pancacke
As featured in the The New York Times….come 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.
Tickets: FREE
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!
Does it stand for "Thank God It's Friday" or "Thank God It's Funny"... we'll never know. But we do know it's improv every Friday @ 7pm!
Legendary improv duo Mike Jest & John Randall do forty five minutes of the Chicago-style comedy!
The best improv team in the world is back this month for an unforgettable improv experience.
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!
BACK AT BCC BY POPULAR DEMAND! KACHONK moves loudly through the mundane grind of life, searching for tactile experience and more caffeine.
MEGASQUIRT is splashing down into the Pig Pen with new music and sketch, featuring some of their funniest friends from #squirtnation.
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: TBD
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: Winebear, Granny Fully Loaded
Stonewall is one of the most iconic events in queer HERstory, but the exact circumstances leading up to the riots has remained a MISSstory - UNTIL NOW.
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: HAPPY TO BE HERE, CANDLE AND LANTERN, STROKE
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.
Eisenberg & Stern have helped launch the careers of countless musical artists, whom they invite on stage to perform original songs in this two-person musical character comedy.
As seen on ‘America's Got Talent', Chicken Big Goes Weekly at the BCC!
As featured in the The New York Times….come 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.
Tickets: FREE
It’s really hard being the funniest and most beautiful sketch comedy group in New York City, so where do Golfers go from here?
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: CAMELOT, BUCKET TV, IMPROVISED COLUMBO
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.
The continuing adventures of America's Second Favorite Orphan Adventurer come to life in a live radio play you have to hear to believe!
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: HAPPY TO BE HERE, CANDLE AND LANTERN, STROKE
In a world increasingly saturated by the rhetoric and decisions of a few wealthy individuals, only one show seeks to take their voices and turn the volume... even higher.
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: CAMELOT, BUCKET TV, IMPROVISED COLUMBO
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: HAPPY TO BE HERE, CANDLE AND LANTERN, STROKE
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: Winebear, Granny Fully Loaded
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: Reece Borden, Adison Eyring, Allen Strickland Williams
Queens-core presents “Improvised King of Queens,” where comfort TV gets hijacked and pushed until it breaks!
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!
WARNING: THIS DANGEROUS, SEDUCTIVE BOUFFON-CLOWN may transform you.
“Very, Very Funny”. NY TIMES
What happens when an obnoxiously tall gay and moderately short gay come together to make sketch comedy? They accidentally go viral (and not in the sexy way).
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only.
Opener: DJ Soggy Bottom
It’s not easy being a fat hottie in the world or in comedy but we’re here and we’re not going anywhere ok?
Fresh off of their run in the NYC Duo Improv Tournament, Hill Giants bring together some of the best duo teams in the city.
Closed for private comedy show and event for filmmakers as part of the Brooklyn Film Festival!
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!
The Award-winning improv team Bad Magicians have been sent to this Earth to make humans feel again through the art that is improvisational comedy.
The demons are doing the best of the best sketches from the BCC’s flagship improvised sketch show.
beta bl0ckers is a new comedy collective. there are 9 of us. we’re gen z girls and gays who make fun sh*t together.
Does it stand for "Thank God It's Friday" or "Thank God It's Funny"... we'll never know. But we do know it's improv every Friday @ 7pm!
Let’s see what new theater is COOKED up by these playwrights.
As featured in the The New York Times….come 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.
Tickets: FREE
A wise gay sage once said, join us for a one-night-only, non-therapeutic, possibly healing, definitely intriguing semi-circle of a comedy show.
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: Freshly Squeezed, John Randall Duo
An uplifting, bonkers invitation to misbehave, laugh at our flaws, and dance through the chaos - Come Save World!
As seen on ‘America's Got Talent', Chicken Big Goes Weekly at the BCC!
Betty Kubovy-Weiss has never had a serious boyfriend. In a new series, He Likes Me Not, she interviews the guys who have rejected her to find out why.
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.
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.
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: CAMELOT, BUCKET TV, IMPROVISED COLUMBO
Look. Times have been hard. But we are going to heal, okay? 50% variety show, 50% wellness retreat, 100% run by a woman who desperately needs this.
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: Big Miss Steak, Twin Dogs, and Horsegirls
In this intimately absurd hour, Claire Woolner attempts to perform a retrospective of her ‘greatest’ most ‘moving’ and ‘important’ pieces.
“If the performance artist Marina Abramovic were a clown” - the New York Times
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: Abbi Thompson, Austin Estrada, Kevin O'Brien, and Heather Marulli
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