HEADLINER: 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.
Full of Bones delivers a phrenetic, absurd, and straight up silly hour of improv that’s guaranteed to tickle your funny bone.
HEADLINER: Chloe Troast has friends that she loves to improvise with. They're also really good at solving problems...through breakthrough improv therapy.
Help Me I'm Drowning is funny improv.
HEADLINER: 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!
HEADLINER: Writers from Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" take a break from writing jokes, and try making them up on the spot.
The Lake at Dawn is the chillest improv team in NYC.
soft is 3 people with enough emotions for 20.
HEADLINER: Simple Town is a sketch group in Brooklyn that makes films and performs live.
Magicians performing long form improv during a magic show.
HEADLINER: North Coast frequently blurs the line between comedy show and concert, drawing audiences from the comedy, hip-hop, and theater communities for an experience that has been hailed as “mind-blowing” and “next level” by critics and audiences alike.
Life. The longest monoscene of all. Hooper will do that.
Rupert is the shared brain cell of Pearl Emerson and Mitchell Ashe.
HEADLINER: 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.
Parodying Conservative Panels, Podcasts and Online News Sources!
HEADLINER: The original cast of the Second City New York Mainstage rises from the ashes of being fired to do the only thing they know how to do—improv.
KIBBLE (Amy Shandro, Henry Block, Liam Caplan) unites for a special 3D Motion Capture Improv Experience.
Two boys inhabit several characters at once, building chaotic worlds filled with freaks.
This is a live-directed melodrama where the audience gets to throw banana peels at the performers when they’re bad!
shorties is a queer/femme short form improv show!!
Queer improvisers completely let loose, but their straight allies are forced to only speak in lyrics from iconic gay songs.
Zebra is a supergroup of veteran performers with a combined 112 years of experience.
Mercy Santos (God's Favorite Improv Team) worships YOU (God's Favorite Audience) with long-form improv (God's Favorite Art Form).
Doc says see clown improv. Man says doc, I am clown improv.
The Letdown does Chicago-style improv: grounded, patient, and committed- less like improvised sketch comedy and more like a comedic one-act play.
HEADLINER: All Asian Improv comedy team does their brand new bullshit!
HEADLINER: Join Two Tree Hill & Rose Kelso as they do a FULL IMPROVISED Don't Stop I'm About to Jazz!
Midwives is an all-lady team of five gals
HEADLINER: Join Ladies Who Ranch for an electric improv show featuring a grab bag of raucous character-driven performances and clown-inspired chaos!
HEADLINER: At this show, Chris Gethard and Trumane Alston reunite at last.
classic improv from a gay guy a bi girl a straight girl and a straight guy
Baggage Claim interviews an audience member about a time they have been wronged in their life.
HEADLINER: CHICKEN BIG LOVES FUN AND DUMB IMPROV FESTIVAL.
HEADLINER: No one makes things up like frat boyz. Come reunite with your college besties at improv night.
Detroit-to-NYC comedy duo Estar Cohen and Adam Hirzel bring to life a cast of the most loveable despicable characters you’ll ever meet.
Tim Platt, Sam Group, and Will McDonald create crazy, romantic, intense, and hilarious stories through improv.
Coming from Chicago, Women of a Certain Age are Daniela Aguilar and Elim Almedom!
Scene darlings and best friends Brandon Follick and Ái Vy Lưu present an evening of twoprov sure to delight.
HEADLINER: We perform improv comedy entirely in Spanish except for one white guy who doesn’t speak Spanish at all.
HEADLINER: Professional Actor CONNOR RATLIFF presents a fully improvised one-person show that pretends to be a real acting class.
Just 2 eggs having fun! 2 lady 2prov serving up laughs poached, scrambled, and fried.
Our only rule is DO NOT TALK TO US ABOUT FINANCE.
A night of high art and emotionally naked improvised theatre.
The Spice Rack is BCC’s improv jam for BIPOC-identifying folks!
Welcome to the COOKED UP COMEDY - an improvised sketch show.
Improvised Survivor is coming to the Fun & Dumb festival for a special one-off performance featuring the show's most devious players.
A fable the likes of which has not been put to oral or written tradition unfolds during this witching hour.
TIP’s been pathetic at Emerson College since the 1980s, baby.
Jared Palmer Kirsch and Jay Reed are here with a brand spanking new episode of hit TV Show, Family Guy.
ESCÁNDALO is a show pa la'cultura and your escape into the heart of Latine culture!
seven improvisers who have only performed sketch together will relinquish their scripts and find their freedom back in their natural state
We all have white girlfriends which is very rare.
It's 1:00 AM, time to raise a little HELL 😈
A completely made up episode of TV's Columbo with some of the best comedy artists in town!
Chicago's Longest Running AAPI Comedy Team, 30 years strong.
Wet Pizza is a long form improv group whose set’s range from grounded slice of life moments to fast-paced goofs and silly characters.
GIRL MOUNTAIN IMPROVISED SKETCH SHOW!!!
THE TRASH KING is a contest and celebration of comedy that is dumb and high commitment!
Spider-people from across the spider-verse get together to perform an inter-dimensional set while keeping their identities a secret.
It is BOB’s belief that improv is as serious as competitive dance.
An improvised episode of the hit CBS reality series "The Amazing Race" performed by two best friends who really, really want to be on the show.
We all love a montage style set...but what if it was a montage with PUPPETS???!!!!
Jump Scare is your go-to for improvised horror, comlete with spooky sounds, final girls, and slasher galore.
This is an improvised event to commemorate Bob Dylan and the film about his life that was released on Christmas Day, 2024.
We're giving away a BILLION DOLLARS!**
**Terms apply, see I'm So Happy's Fun and Dumb Improv Show for details.
A team of musical heartthrobs seduce you by improvising a brand-new musical based on your suggestion.
The Sunday Group originated in Gainesville Florida as an improv team with the same name but different people. This one is better.
Quick, come watch us create a brand new movie based on your suggestions so I don’t flunk out of school :0
DOPPELGÄNGERS is an improv group of six curly-haired lookalikes.
Verily, thou shalt be swept away on a journey of laughter and tears, as the players improvise their way through the labyrinthine tunnels of a story in the the style of William Shakespeare!
Wake up sweetie, the coffee’s on :) And I heard a little rumor that someone likes a jelly donut in the morning. SHUT UP!!, open your mouth, and sit down for some improv you egg slut.
Welcome to the opening and closing night of NYC's newest musical -- so new that it hasn't even be conceived of yet!!
Back by popular demand, NO CASH is what happens when real-life best friends turn their weird bond into live comedy.
Come experience an entirely improvised musical, with music, lyrics, choreography, and a captivating narrative whipped up on the spot
Gunk is an INFAMOUS improv trio known for their chaotic, irreverent play style.
In this high-energy show, a character monologue launches the audience and Madeline into a whirlwind of unpredictable scenes all sparked by their world and quirks.
District 9 Comedy Improv: Denver’s Longest-Running BIPOC Improv Team!
We’re The Blacksmiths! Repping black culture and bringing the funny! Get ready for complete ridiculousness!
Turnstile is an improv group that plays with a combination of gusto and enthusiasm.
Get ready for an improvised episode of The Bachelor filled with rose ceremonies, limo-entrances, confessionals, ”can I steal him for a sec?"s, right reasons, wrong reasons, and so much more
Kendra, Lola, Luke, & Vince will perform a monoscene that will change everything.
Club Monika is an all-lady improv team that's been together since 2014. 21 years, we're legal, honey!
This group of lovable freaks brings their love of musical theater to the wonderful world of improv.
The Cat's Cradle Ensemble is high-energy, psychedelic, character driven, physical improv with heart.
GUPS are your favorite improv FREAKS who play fast and loud!
Award-winning singers, improv 10/10 fun AND dumb af, musicians playing multiple instruments. Strap up HARD because this show is gonna shake everything up.
Pittsburgh based team Barbara, A Mother’s does a long form improv set that brings heightened characters to an absurd world.
The Very Good Boys do Very Good Improv, based on moral dilemmas the audience needs solved.
Fizz is bringing extra carbonated, Chicago-style improv to the Big Apple.
Comprised of 8 powerhouse performers, the STEM Kidz signature style is energetic, fast-paced, and outrageous.
Babes you’re gonna be skin to skin with 6 hotties brimming with improv.
The People's Princess Celebrate BCC's Amusement and Stupidity Gala
[Jaymes Gretchky] is a monoscenic long-form improv duo from Chicago starring two of the most seasoned comedy teachers in the city- James Dugan and Gretchen Eng
Join CFTV as we take a G-rated family vacation through the rolling hills of the American dream.
The beautiful stunning members of BOOBIE TRAP perform prolific improvised sketch.
Swingers is an improv show featuring real couples, yes, REAL.
Come watch an LA improv team do LA style improv! Let's get chunky! 🥛
A live table read of a screenplay written in two hours - based on audience suggestions!
Brothered Toast is an all Black and male improv team that loves off the wall sets and high energy improv.
iO Chicago’s first all POC Harold team. We do the classic Harold structure with lots of flare and color.
Come see long-form improv from Skip Skip: a Chicago-born, New York implanted improv team.
A free improv jam for all those who identify within the LGBTQ+ community!
Tiny Idea is a comedy group that makes sketch comedy online and in real life, and also sometimes does improv. At this show, they will be doing improv.
'Whose Line Was It Anyway?' is a loving homage to the crown jewel of improv comedy: "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"
Big Whoop is a former Magnet Theater house team that performs all around the country.
Zach Schiffman and Allie Viti do 20 minutes of uninterrupted conflict-driven improv.
The Go Go Gos as the do improv based on live music. Equal parts stupid and vulnerable.
HEADLINER: Baby Wants Candy ("Truly Amazing! Critics' Pick'- New York Times) returns to Fun and Dumb for more improvised musical mayhem.
HEADLINER: 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!
two girls and two boys equals one guy named clint.
Three comedians fell in a vat of ooze and became SLOP.
ANNOYING is a cast of friends who originally met and trained at Annoyance NYC so long ago it hurts to think about.
HEADLINER: Padma Lakshmi (Top Chef, Taste the Nation, Supermodel….yeah THAT Padma Lakshmi) is joined by her favorite improvisers for an hour of giggle mania
HEADLINER: ¡Oye chicos! Havana Club is an overly-proud latine improv show from New York City starring Taylor Gonzalez & Julian Hernandez. Join the club.
Go Dummy is the NY improv team with the lowest collective IQ and we specialize in the dumbest, silliest, most laugh-out-loud improv you'll ever see
These twin improvisers claim to be pop music ghostwriters. Now they're sharing the best of their work.
3 Cousins is rising from the ashes to once again go... Joker Mode.
HEADLINER: ASSSSCAT is UCB’s signature improv show that has played to critical acclaim and sold out audiences across the country.
HEADLINER: 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.
Fueled by vengeance and amped-up on bass and guitar, watch as they craft studio-quality live songs based on your suggestions, to prove once and for all they are veritable musicians.
HEADLINER: Fast paced, high energy, and filled to the brim with chaos, NYC’s premiere improv team Duchovny presents “Improv Night in America”!
HEADLINER: These veteran improvisers and long time friends deliver fast-paced, wild style, Deep-Dish, Chicago Style Improv.
These old ass geezers are gonna do the same old shit they’ve been doing since the 80s… some duh! ass two prov
Finally, Brooklyn's least favorite vaccine-era indie team returns to put on a heart-pounding monoscene or maybe a leisurely spokane.
Mr. Cardboard Returns to the BCC to do 15 minutes of entirely new raw material!
Weird Brown Idiots perform improv that beguiles and bemuses.....
Amuse Bouche may be a loose conglomeration, but it features New York's tightest improvisers of 2025.
Come to the world’s funniest most awesome comedy show, made by girls and gays for girls and gays and also everyone else!
Escape the heat and join Big Dawg at this years Fun and Dumb festival for a fully improvised comedy show!
Hailing from the beautiful Hudson Valley in Upstate-ish New York comes this group of major league improvisers!
OOOOH its the improv game show for sneaky little freaks! Six MENSA-member improvisers take the stage - five of them know a BIG secret, and one of them has to fake it! Can the Imposter get away with it???
All female lineup where everything has to pass the Bechdel test or else improvis-hers get slapped with a rubber chicken <3
Hailing from Chicago, Big Deborah is an iO Theater Harold House Team that is hitting the road to perform "The Harold" at BCC
Take improv to the NEXT DIMENSION. Improv 4DX is like going to a 4DX movie but it's an improv show. The audience will be thrilled by not only incredible improv but amazing special effects. Warning -- the front row MAY GET WET!!!!
Lewis, the most mysterious improv team in the world, is bringing in a LIVE psychic to read the future of one lucky audience member.
We are aliens from the spaceship Big Slime. We desire to assimilate with humanity peacefully. So we practice with improvised comedy
Lil' Faithful creates a fully improvised episode of a Lynchian small town searching for answers to a gruesome murder!
An improvised show from the cutest and naughtiest cartoon bunny siblings, Max and Ruby.
Improvised wedding. Black tie mandatory. Real minister. Two of us will be wed Legally in final scene. Catch the ceremony- one night only at FADs BARBER WEDDING
What would it be like if three Teds Lasso did improv?
Prom night is finally here! Conjoined twins, Belle and Carson, are secretly going to prom with the same guy!
Come jam in the twilight hours with the hosts of BCC's weekly improv mic!
Solo improvised narrative based and inspired by audience suggestion that blends colorful characters with rich relationships fueled by Eccentric Emotions.
Skeeter Stevenson is a self-described world-renowned slam poet. Kevin is his reluctant best friend. Together they will perform "Woke-Prov" - a concept created by Skeeter to push his ideology and beliefs.
We do a normal improv show soaking wet.
We improvise a set about what you're overthinking in your life. We overthink so you don't have to : )
Come celebrate Shark Week with Protein Soufflé! In this show, we must keep moving, or we'll die.
Brian is 6 improvisers with varying degrees of mental illness trying to connect with each other and the audience. Join us for a brunch time show that will give you plenty to chew on for the rest of the day.
Piper and Shaunak are performing duo longform improv for you!
Donna’s Beef is an all-female/non-binary group of improv veterans and friends having a good time.
Dearly Beloved, we gather at the BCC to honor the memory of your butt...because you’re about to laugh it off your body!
Join the hot dogs as they navigate the cosmos and befriend creatures from all reaches of the galaxy.
See Grace Notes improvise a fully sung-through American Opera based off of your suggestions.
Desperate Measures presents 20 minutes of the most brain-melting short form improv Brooklyn
Asian improv icons unite in this one night only showcase! Come experience improv from a different perspective and join us in celebrating culture, comedy and community.
DO YOU HEAR THAT??? That's right! YOUR sounds make OUR set. We'll bring the mic.
Rent-a-Friend is an improv team that might do anything—naked shows, spontaneous honesty, a third thing.
Narrative improv with serious heart. RAWR!
Mom's favorite is using improv to solve family beef. Come watch as we solve someone's family drama through fun bits and coo-coo-crazy antics.
Hoopty is an independent improv team who does really good improv. We all had broken cars as teens.
We start in a sex position you've never seen before. Then we do improv. You are a voyeur.
What if there was an indie improv team that was also eight best friends?
The baddest kids at BCC are stuck in after-school detention—and their punishment is pure torture: improv.
The glorious union of improv and clown!
STAFF MUTINY! JULIAN MAYA PHILIP YOU CAN’T CONTROL WHAT WE DO (it will be 20 minutes of longform improv)
One of New York City's premier indy teams, Hush returns to the stage for another unforgettable improv show.
Our team members are either immigrants or children of immigrants, hence the name.
Formed in the long-ago yet never-ending year of 2016, Fabuloso put their collective decades of improv experience together in shows that put the "hap" in "hapless comedy".
Join Big Cup for musical improv WHERE THE IMPROVISERS PLAY THE INSTRUMENTS TOO!
An elite team of valedictorians will help you navigate a post-college world using improvised scenarios!
We will improvise a new episode of HBO's "The Sopranos" with each cast member playing a Sopranos character and following the structure of an episode. It's a high-energy, fun, chaotic show filled with gabagool and fuhgeddaboudit.
God’s Website is going to harness the incredible power of IMPROVISATION to confound the scientific consensus and generate a premature eclipse with our minds and bodies...
Peekaboo Wonderful is an Improv Super Group from Providence Rhode Island that met at a Unitarian Universalist Summer Camp.
Awkward Family Dinner is a fully improvised play around a dinner table with real food.
Come watch BCC teachers fuck up everything they teach in this wild-style improv show.
Come watch a live episode of Grey's Anatomy- the longest-running scripted primetime medical drama- UNSCRIPTED.
Basketball Crush is a diverse, all-female improv group from Chicago, Illinois.
Old Yorkers are a collection of veteran improvisers from Upright Citizens Brigade and Second City. We perform an emotionally-grounded monoscene.
The BCC Sketch Residency Spring 2025 performs from memory their sketches that didn't make the cut in the first show.
Come jam with other BCC improvisers in an all-levels friendly space!
Gay guys who do Improv love to have fun will make you laugh crazy.
Payday is a show improvised around one question to the audience: What's the weirdest or stupidest thing you've blown a paycheck on?
Three of NY's finest Standup Comics gather topics from Fun&Dumb audiences to write fun & dumb standup sets in real time.
Known as "The Oscars of Improv," the Yes-Andies celebrate everything good and worthwhile about the NYC improv scene over the last year. Black tie encouraged.
My Son, Daniel is a Chicago based improv team who specializes in playing characters in their dirties, nastiest, most emotionally raw states.
3 Black women get wild on stage! Come catch us follow the fun and have a good ass time.
Mango Tango is a team of high-energy, high-commitment veteran improvisers who are utilizing songs to inspire their set. This is gonna be a show you don't want to miss.
HEADLINER: After obsessively rewatching every episode of HBO’s Girls, Gen Z comedians Amelia Ritthaler and Evan Lazarus have dove headfirst into another iconic NYC millennial fever dream: Broad City. Expect hot takes, chaotic tangents, questionable fashion references, and SURPRISE GUESTS that might just blow your mind.
HEADLINER: An improv show with a rotating cast of NY’s best comics, hosted by Wes Haney, Nick Naney, and Clare O’Kane
Through grounded scene work, we explore the interaction between people and space in different periods of history.
Themes of masculinity rage love and triumph of explored by Brooklyn’s favorite rageful boys.
Frank's big, David's little, and Chris is just right! We're all buddies. As a team we focus on high emotional stakes, patient (but never boring!) play, then a take off to kooky-ville.
For one night only world famous sketch comedians Elika Kaplan and Audrey Garrett will attempt grounded impressive improv.
HEADLINER: Gay guys CAN do Improv. With a special guest….
HEADLINER: Writers from the Late Show doing some damn improv.
Former Child is an improv comedy duo and real life married couple whose musical improv comedy stylings are almost renowned!
Our show will bring the audience on a journey of delight as we focus our set on the grotesque nature of being alive but being alive together.
HEADLINER: Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show!
HEADLINER: Closing out the festival as always, welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show. Sit back, relax, and watch the chaos unfold.
HEADLINER: Welcome to Shitzprobe, where a special Broadway Guest Star throws away the script and improvises a musical for their very first time!
HEADLINER: All black and all about that sauce, Branded Silk is an improv trio forged from the fires of friendship and adversity.
5 girls and 2 gay guys are flying first class to Pound Town and you're coming with us. Cellphones off, check your panties at the gate - All aboard!
HEADLINER: An improv show with a rotating cast of NY's best comics, hosted by Wes Haney, Nick Naney, and Clare O'Kane.
The audience gives us their favorite book (or movie), and we then "recreate" it through the power of improv. If you only have one night before your book report is due but you also want to see a show, this is the one for you!
HEADLINER: One the most celebrated comedy ensembles in the world, Baby Wants Candy ("Critics Pick! Truly Amazing!" New York Times, "Best Visiting Improv Comedy" TimeOut) returns to FAD for more dumb fun, musical improv style.
Story is the basis of human connection and we’re serving it up raw; straight from our hearts to you
Katy Berry just found out her mom was horny for Poseidon in the 80s and she's an actual a Demi-goddess!! 5-stars at Edinburgh Fringe, this show should not be missed!
School's in session! Come watch BCC teachers fuck up everything they teach.
Club Mo loves getting back together once a year to perform at Fun and Dumb. You could say it's our anniversary show (how romantic) oh and we love a good old monoscene!
The vibes are cherry red delicious between these annoying losers. Life is amazing if you accept improv into your life.
Known as the "Oscars of Longform Improv," The Yes-Andies celebrate the best of NYC improv over the last year! Community-decided winners will be highlighted throughout the show.
What happens when a group of friends has performed torgether for over 8 years? They become ANNOYING!
All girl lineup where everything has to pass the Bechdel test or else improvisHers will get slapped with a rubber chicken <3xoxo
Third Degree Crush has a summer fling... with YOU!
THE TRASH KING is a contest and celebration of comedy that is dumb and high commitment!
We’re The Blacksmiths! Repping black culture and bringing the funny! Get ready for complete ridiculousness!
Third Degree Crush has a summer fling... with YOU!
Just 2 decadent omeletes having fun! 2lady 2prov with lots of giggles.
Lola and Vince invite you to witness the power of ginger resilience through a 2 person improv set that will leave you questioning your morals and humanity.
Watch James & Jordan tear each other limb from limb thru gladiator style, rage-induced twoprov. And this time? It’s personal.
Eric Adams is famously the worst. What would we do in his shoes? This is a twoprov experiment to find out.
Founded in 2008 in Chicago, Improvised Jane Austen is a comedic ensemble that creates unscripted performances using Regency-era tropes, themes, and language.
5 friends come together to do improv. Come see us laugh at each other's improv and hopefully laugh with us too.
Come by for an improvised movie based on indie films from the likes of Gerwig, Baumbach and more. It's mumblecore to the max!
Birdlady is a house team from the legendary iO Chicago.
The LA duo of Jake & Nat have transplanted to NY!! Come for the 2-prov and they’ll give you characters, cut-to’s, and chaos <3
Michael Brantl and Levi Friedman do unhinged but sometimes hinged twoprov. Warning: They WILL be wearing funny hats.
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