SHOWS
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic...a leading house of improvisation.” - The New York Times
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.
¿Qué? is a Spanish-speaking improv team with one white guy who doesn’t speak any Spanish. It’s comedy anyone can understand!
Known for their grounded scenes and wildly inventive play, OLESTRA brings Chicago-style joyful chaos to the stage.
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: Tip Your Landlord
We’re going back to our roots: an hour of new sketch comedy.
Improvised CNN is a mash-up show where Tim Mountain, Andy Vega, and their friends watch clips based on the week's news and perform scenes inspired by them.
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.
Join ANGUS for a fully-improvised musical from four musical improv divas that will knock your thongs off.
A night of comedy you can make a MEAL of.
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
A scathing review of the current state of affairs as told from the perspective of one woman pretending to be two gay boys.
An attempt to answer the age old question: yes and?
Do you want to see the dumbest, most laugh out loud comedy acts in NYC together in one show?! This one's for you.
ANNOYING is a fully improvised show by a long-standing group of performers who met at Annoyance Theater NYC many, many years ago.
Jamie is workshopping approximately one thousand characters to bring a new solo show to the masses.
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 best improv team in the world is back this month for another epic comedy explosion.
Moms Against Sketch Comedy performs an hour of entirely original, never-before-seen sketches. All while holding their breath!
Real life never felt so real, or so funny!
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: Three Hole Punch
This Mother's Day treat yourself and your loved ones to a musical created completely on the spot by six real cutie-pies.
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!
Enter an unknown world of strange and silly sketch comedy specifically made for sickos and dumb dumbs.
Featuring a live pianist, this ensemble will improvise lyric, melody, and dance to give you a show that even John Mayer wishes it was about him.
In honor of Mother's Day, Mercy Santos is partnering with the CIA to find the Arc of the Covenant and they need your help!
Watch six comedians with strong convictions battle it out on popular debate topics.
There once was a humorous show. Comedians surely you know. But a creature named Gene, shows up with whipped cream. To know more, you'll just have to go.
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