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.

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv, Jam

Aug 4

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Stand-up, Open Mic

Eiffel Tower Mic

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Stand-up, Open Mic

Bonjour chosen family! Come join hosts Audrey Garrett, Ben Jenkins and Jack Walz to try out three minutes of just about anything: stand-up, character, clown, music?!? Ooo, someone should bring a guitar.

There is a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY FOR BIGOTED MATERIAL.

Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Stand-up, Open Mic

Aug 5

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

Chicken Big

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

As seen on ‘America's Got Talent', Chicken Big Goes Weekly at the BCC!

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7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

Aug 5

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

The Duchess and Special Guests!

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

You love Gay Guy Improv….. and now it’s monthly….. and now imagine us with a special guest each month!

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8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

Aug 6

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Variety

Negativity

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Variety

Adison Eyring, Elijah Meshnick, and 20 other comedians investigate the world as we know it, and they're not afraid to get a little negative.

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7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Variety

Aug 6

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

The Good Time

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

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: Hooper

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7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

Aug 6

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Variety

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8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Variety

A live table read of a screenplay written in four hours, based on audience suggestions.

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8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Variety

Aug 6

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Sketch, Improv

Demon Time

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Sketch, Improv

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

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Sketch, Improv

Aug 7

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

TGIF with Duchovny & Olestra

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

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!

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7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

Aug 7

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv, Jam

Gay Gam

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv, Jam

Maya and Pearl welcome all queer identifying improvisers to BCC’s monthly queer improv jam

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7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv, Jam

Aug 7

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

¿Qué?

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

¿Qué? is a Spanish-speaking improv team with one white guy who doesn’t speak any Spanish. It’s comedy anyone can understand!

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8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

Aug 7

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Variety

Late Late Night Night

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Variety

LLNN is back for its second year in a big way. They still don’t know what their monologue says, they still don’t know who their guests are.

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8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Variety

Aug 7

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

DONNA’S BEEF IMPROV

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

If you’re looking for a beefy, juicy improv night, this is the show for you.

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8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

Aug 8

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM18:30 – 20:006:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Musical Improv, Improv, Jam

Musical Improv Jam!

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM18:30 – 20:006:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Musical Improv, Improv, Jam

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!

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM18:30 – 20:006:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Musical Improv, Improv, Jam

Aug 8

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

Full of Dummy

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

Your favorite improv teams Go Dummy and Full of Bones combine forces for a night of laugh-out-loud improv comedy.

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7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

Aug 8

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Sketch

Tandem Jump in NYC

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Sketch

Montreal's hardest working sketch group Tandem Jump comes to NYC for the first time ever. Tandem Jump just wants to make you proud.

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7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Sketch

Aug 8

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Musical Improv, Improv

Baby Wants Candy

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Musical Improv, Improv

Baby Wants Candy is one of the best known, longest running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.

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8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Musical Improv, Improv

Aug 8

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

What Makes [You] Laugh?

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only.

Opener: Team? Team. Team 🙂‍↕️

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8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

Aug 9

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Variety

Rainbow Riot

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Variety

Rainbow Riot celebrates the joys of Blackness and Queerness in Comedy.

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7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Variety

Aug 9

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Variety

Chine & Temi Split an Hour

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Variety

Temi is doing standup!! Chine is doing sketch!! It will be a perfect night.

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7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Variety

Aug 9

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Variety

New Day! New York!

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Variety

The show might start at 8:30PM but with live guests, remote correspondents, and digital sketches, you'll feel like you're back home checking in with your favorite quirky morning show newscast.

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8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Variety

Aug 9

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

BABES

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

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: Baby Bird and Horse Girls

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8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

Aug 9

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Stand-up

Faculty Lounge

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Stand-up

A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!

Featuring: TBD

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8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Stand-up

Aug 11

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

Home Teams

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

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

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7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

Aug 11

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Variety

MUSICAL THEATRE FOOLISHNESS

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Variety

A comedy variety show for musical theater lovers—wigs, costumes, and chaos guaranteed. You deserve it.

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7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Variety

Aug 11

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv, Jam

Pump Up: The Jam

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv, Jam

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.

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv, Jam

Aug 11

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Stand-up, Open Mic

Eiffel Tower Mic

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Stand-up, Open Mic

There is a ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY FOR BIGOTED MATERIAL.

Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Stand-up, Open Mic

Aug 12

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

Chicken Big

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

As seen on ‘America's Got Talent', Chicken Big Goes Weekly at the BCC!

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7:00 PM – 8:15 PM19:00 – 20:157:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Improv

Aug 12

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

Slay's Anatomy

8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

Praised by The New York Times as "a spoof on Grey's Anatomy", Slay's Anatomy is a spoof on Grey's Anatomy.

Come see your favorite cast of doctors come [back] to life through the power of improv.

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8:30 PM – 9:45 PM20:30 – 21:458:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Improv

Monthly & Weekly Shows

Full Schedule

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Discover your voice, hone your craft, find your people.

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MUSICAL IMPROV

SKETCH/CHARACTER

STAND-UP

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ELECTIVES/WRITING

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HIRE US

Applied improv classes and customized shows.

Corporate

PRIVATE EVENTS

TESTIMONIALS

Nice words from BCC peeps.

"There's a vital type of alternative comedy that's cheap and grimy and accessible and countercultural. BCC is keeping that style of comedy alive in New York City."

Chris Gethard (THE CHRIS GETHARD SHOW / BEAUTIFUL ANONYMOUS

"Nowadays when people ask me where they should go to see new, cool, cutting edge comedy - I say the BCC. It is the most surprising and innovative place for comedy in New York."

Kyle Gordon (THE SIMPSONS, COMEDY CENTRAL)

"I love BCC! A very welcoming space to develop the show of your dreamy dreams. Take advantage of your own backyard before it's sold for condos!"

Maria Bamford (LADY DYNAMITE, “The Funniest Woman in the World" - Judd Apatow).

"The BCC fosters an incredible sense of community. It really feels like home base. It's not only one of my favorite places to perform in NYC, but my favorite place to hang with friends."

Dylan Adler (THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN)

"It feels like the community at the BCC has tripled. I think everyone's like wow this is becoming an institution now."

Chloe Troast (SNL)

“BCC taught me everything I know about comedy. I credit the teachers and the community with helping me hone my voice and trust myself as a comedian! Plus, it's the best place to hang out.”

Sophie Zucker (THE DAILY SHOW)

Britt Lower (Emmy Winner, SEVERANCE) shouts out her show @ BCC on Late Night w/ Seth Meyers.

ABOUT THE BCC

Since its debut in March 2018, the BCC has produced over 2000 shows featuring fearless and irreverent comedy from both up-and-coming, and top comedic talent. Notably, the BCC was the first major NYC comedy theater to pay its performers a significant cut of the box office, distinguishing them as a playground where experimentation and ingenuity are valued. The BCC survived and thrived during COVID, continuing to pay performers for online shows, and now produces 30 shows a week between two venues in East Williamsburg: Eris Evolution (167 Graham Ave, Brooklyn), a two theater space, and the BCC Pig Pen (144 Boerum St). Annually, the BCC produces the "Fun & Dumb Festival," one of the largest improv festivals in the world, which the New York Times has made the #1 pick of things to do in July in NYC for multiple years, and which hosted 600+ performers and 150+ shows over 4-days. From 2021-2024, the BCC has featured over 50 shows as part of the NY Comedy Festival, and produced two iterations of Pitchfest" - featuring 12 ready for development pilots, some of which sold to major comedy networks. The BCC offers a wide array of classes in improv, sketch, stand-up and more - available year-round - as well as corporate shows and workshops teaching the skills of improvisation to businesses and organizations of all sizes.

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