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.

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

standup, open mic

Mar 3

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

Mar 4

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

musical improv

Improvised Awards Season

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

musical improv

Improvised Awards Season is a musical improv show that jumps on awards season hype.

Tickets: $12 in Advance / $17 Day of Show

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

musical improv

Mar 4

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

Improv

The Duchess and Special Guests!

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

Improv

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

Tickets: $10 in Advance / $15 Day of Show

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

Improv

Mar 4

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

Improv

Chicken Big

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

Improv

Chicken Big Goes Weekly at the BCC!

Tickets: $10 in Advance / $15 Day of Show

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

Improv

Mar 5

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

Sketch

Sketch!

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

Sketch

An hour of sketch comedy brought to you by a slew of sketch comics.

Tickets: $12 in Advance / $17 Day of Show

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

Sketch

Mar 5

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: Mark & Eddie, Full of Bones

Tickets: $10 In Advance / $15 Day-of Show

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

improv

Mar 5

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

Variety Show

Derpina

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

Variety Show

At the junction of weird and woman there is only one word: derpina.

Tickets: $12 in Advance / $17 Day of Show

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

Variety Show

Mar 5

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

improv, sketch

Demon Time

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

improv, sketch

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.

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

improv, sketch

Mar 6

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!

Tickets: $10 in Advance / $15 Day of Show

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

Improv

Mar 6

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

improv, Comedy, jam

Gay Gam

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

improv, Comedy, jam

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

Donate to Our Diversity Scholarship

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

improv, Comedy, jam

Mar 6

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

Sketch

BOOBIE TRAP SKETCH: OPEN TO AWARDS

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

Sketch

For this new hour of perfect sketch comedy, darling team BOOBIE TRAP is open to being awarded.

Tickets: $12 in Advance / $17 Day of Show

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

Sketch

Mar 6

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.

Tickets: $10 in Advance / $15 Day-of Show

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

improv

Mar 6

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

Variety Show

Late Late Night Night's MARCH MATTNESS

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

Variety Show

Come see everyone's favorite Semi-Improvised Late Night Variety Show!

Tickets: $12 in Advance / $17 Day of Show

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

Variety Show

Mar 6

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!

Tickets: $10 in Advance / $15 Day of Show

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

Improv

Mar 7

6:00 PM – 8:15 PM18:00 – 20:156:00 PM – 8:15 PM

improv, Comedy, jam

The Forever Jam

6:00 PM – 8:15 PM18:00 – 20:156:00 PM – 8:15 PM

improv, Comedy, jam

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!

6:00 PM – 8:15 PM18:00 – 20:156:00 PM – 8:15 PM

improv, Comedy, jam

Mar 7

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

Stand-up

Close Friends

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

Stand-up

New York's funniest comedians will make you laugh with hilarious material they usually save for their besties.

Tickets: $10 in Advance / $15 Day of Show

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

Stand-up

Mar 7

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

Sketch

Girl Mountain Peaks

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

Sketch

After a long hike, we have arrived to the mountaintop to present an hour of our best sketches ever.

Tickets: $12 in Advance / $17 Day of Show

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

Sketch

Mar 7

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

Improv, improv

Bad Magicians: Improv to Make You Feel

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

Improv, improv

We are Performance Artists, utilizing the Art that is Improvisation, not simply to make you Laugh (haha), but to make you Feel (ohhh ahhh).

Tickets: $12 in Advance / $17 Day of Show

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

Improv, improv

Mar 7

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

Clown

Clown Revue

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

Clown

What do you do when the world feels crazy? Turn to clown!

Tickets: $10 in Advance / $15 Day-of Show

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

Clown

Mar 7

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

improv, Comedy

What Makes [You] Laugh?

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

improv, Comedy

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

Opener: Shoehorn

Tickets: $10 In Advance / $15 Day-of Show

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

improv, Comedy

Mar 8

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

play

Finding Cleo Taurus

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

play

Set during a talkback for controversial feminist hero on her latest memoir "Finding CleoTaurus: Hear My Womanly Roar."

Tickets: $15 in Advance / $20 Day of Show

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

play

Monthly & Weekly Shows

Full Schedule

5th ANNUAL FAD: July 9-12, 2026

FAD is a 4-day festival celebrating all things improv, the silly stupid good stuff we just can't get enough of!

SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN THRU MARCH 9

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Classes

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

Upcoming Classes

Stand-Up Level 2: Solidifying Your Set w/ JoAnn Schinderle (March-April) (Tuesdays)

$375.00

Clown Level 2: Unearthing Your Clown w/ Chris Manley (March-April) (Tuesdays)

$375.00

Only 2 left in stock

Musical Improv Level 2: Technique w/ Katy Berry (March-April) (Mondays)

$395.00

Clown Level 3: Ensemble w/ Jeff Seal (March-April) (Wednesdays)

$375.00

Only 3 left in stock

Stand-Up Level 2: Solidifying Your Set w/ Shalewa Sharpe (March-April) (Saturdays)

$375.00

Improv Level 1: Intro To Improv w/ Onyi Okoli (March-April) (Saturday)

$375.00

Improv Level 1: Intro To Improv w/ Onyi Okoli (March-April) (Tuesday)

$375.00

Only 2 left in stock

Improv Level 3: Advanced Scene Dynamics w/ John Randall (March-April) (Sunday)

$375.00

Summer Improv 1 Intensive: Intro to Improv (June 2026)

$425.00

Summer Improv 2 Intensive: Free Your Mind (June 2026)

$425.00

Summer Level 1 Clown Intensive (June 2026) - Sec. 1

$425.00

Summer Level 2 Clown Intensive (June 2026)

$425.00

Summer Level 1 Clown Intensive (June 2026) - Sec. 2

$425.00

Improv Level 4: Long Forms w/ Andy Junk (March-April) (Sundays)

$375.00

Earning Game w/ Hannah Rehak (Saturday, March 21st)

$40.00

Group Scenes w/o Conflict w Wander Boesjes (Saturday, March 14th)

$40.00

Summer Improv 3 Intensive: Advanced Scene Dynamics (June 2026)

$425.00

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Applied improv classes and customized shows.

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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 CORDON)

"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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