SHOWS
“If you've ever wanted to see the future of comedy—head to the BCC.” - Time Out New York
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!
Come explore galaxies unknown with some of the biggest idiots in NY.
Students from the Sketch Level 2 Class, instructed by Nick Mestad, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
For one night only, this cast of cunning, brave, and hormonal warriors will perform an hour-long improvised young-adult dystopian movie based on your suggestion.
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.
Opener: Soundbox
One giant book, five fabulous comics, a few strums from the house crooner, and a night of stories you'll never forget.
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: Louis and Justin, Hammer, The Sunday Scurries
Flannery Branham-Kamp and Hrannar Björnsson make up the comedy duo Rachel & Matt.
Rainbow Riot celebrates the joys of Blackness and Queerness in Comedy.
How do you prepare a politically charged group performance for the Improv Regionals you may ask? You vote.
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: TBA
Sketch comedy, improv, characters, songs?! We’ve got it all babyyyy!
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.
When we are born, we are at age 0. Then we circle the sun and we officially become 1.
No one makes things up like frat boyz. Come pledge at improv night in the Deep Space of the legendary “BCC fraternity.”
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!
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: Raul Duo
Almost entirely improvised, every Love in Concert! performance becomes its own romantic revolution with laughter, tears, buckets of spinach dip and a community-building experience like no other.
Can seven friends make sketch comedy together and still love each other in the morning?
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.
An open mic for your clown. Make us laugh, make us cry. Don’t make a mess.
Come to laugh, be merry, and take a walk on the wild side aka watch comedy!!!
Come save your soul at The Limbo Talk Show, the only talk show set in purgatory!
Best Actress, your favorite Los Angeles clown trio is back and they're hosting a show and a screening to prove it.
Not Like Other Girls combines the improv forms you know and love with the hysterics of a middle school sleepover to create an unforgettable comedy experience.
Come to the world’s funniest most awesome comedy show, made by girls and gays for girls and gays and also everyone else.
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!
Jared Palmer Kirsch and Jay Reed are back with a brand spanking new episode of hit TV Show, Family Guy.
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic...a leading house of improvisation.” - The New York Times
Classes
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HIRE US
Applied improv classes and customized shows.

Comedy shows to delight and improv workshops to enhance communication, innovation, leadership, and trust among your team.
TESTIMONIALS
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COMMUNITY
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FUN AND DUMB IMPROV FESTIVAL
It might be the biggest improv fest in the world.
Thank you to everyone who attended Fad’25 and our nearly 800 performers!! See you next year July 9-12, 2026!
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MERCH
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