HEADLINER: Gay guys can do it all. Actually, sorry, that's not totally true. But one thing we definitely can do is IMPROV COMEDY c'mon! Known for their vids online and monthly show at BCC featuring special guests like Jeff Hiller, John Early, Pat Regan, and more, The Duchess is ready to kick off FAD with a bang, and turn that D into a G ;)
INSTAGRAM: @theduchessimprov

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HEADLINER: Asian AF, the premiere Asian American comedy variety in LA and NY for 10 years, is home to hilarious and dynamic improv team, Joy F*ck Club. Made up of some of the top Asian American comedians, they've performed sold out shows at the Kennedy Center and have been featured on HBO, Apple TV, NPR, Netflix, and more, and are excited to goof at Fun & Dumb again. Expect hard laughs (and soft tears) at this special super team size show! Follow @asianafshow @thejoyfuckclub

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HEADLINER: With a cast of improv comedy veterans in New York City, North Coast’s explosive performances have been packing comedy venues, universities, and festivals nationwide since 2009. Built around a single suggestion from an audience member, the show’s improvised scenes escalate into full-blown hip-hop songs, facilitated by resident beatboxer, Doctor Brick. With their seamless melding of comedic timing and freestyle rapping abilities, 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. @northcoastnyc

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Soapbox gives comedians a platform to share their hottest takes! The catch? It's all improvised. This rapid-fire show gives everyone 1-minute to give an impassioned speech on a pop culture topic drawn from a hat. There's no time to prep, only time to preach! Topics range from the latest celebrity gossip to the minutiae of daily life!! (IG: @soapboxcomedyshow)

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Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! Are not our names! But everyone has it coming! By that we mean an awesome improv set.

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HEADLINER: Chris Gethard and Trumane Alston improvise together a few times a year. The shows tend. to be very good and very emo. They prefer to headline festivals.

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HEADLINER: No one makes things up like frat boyz. The Fratties are veteran improvisers from the major comedy theaters in NYC. They've been friends since college and reunite every 3rd Wed of the month at the BCC. Now they are putting the dumb in Fun & Dumb '26. Let's go, bro.

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HEADLINER: Professional actor CONNOR RATLIFF (Widow's Bay, Run Amok, Dead Eyes podcast) welcomes special guest GRIFFIN NEWMAN (The Tick, Strip Law, Blank Check podcast) for a fully-improvised show that pretends to be a real acting class.

"I don't know what this is... but Connor Ratliff (who's a really funny guy) has something called 'The Acting Class.'" - Seth Meyers

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Whose Line Was It Anyway? is a loving homage to improv's crowning masterpiece: "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"

This show will NOT be improvised; the cast will memorize and recreate a full episode of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"

Every joke, every delivery, and every movement will be meticulously recorded, rehearsed, and executed with honor and respect.

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In Undressed: the Musical, YOUR embarrassing story gets turned into a musical right before your eyes by a cast of veteran performers wearing nothing but their underwear. One lucky audience member with the most interesting embarrassing moment shares their story. Then, the cast and band make up an entire Broadway-style musical, spontaneously creating every single note, dance, and line of dialogue on the spot. @undressedmusical

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Songs N Scenes is a collision of live music and unscripted comedy where no two nights are the same. Each show begins with original music performed by a featured musician, inspiring a cast of top-tier improvisers to create scenes based on the music’s mood, themes, and energy. Nothing is scripted or repeated, resulting in a spontaneous, collaborative, and completely unpredictable blend of comedy, music, and storytelling. Insta (@SongsNScenesNYC)

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The game: contestants race against a ticking clock to perform academically good improv; each successful move adds time to the clock and if they build the scene to a natural black out, they win!

However, if the clock runs out of time, the Attack Dogs (a group of the most irrepressible steam rollers and unmanageable wild card players) are unleashed upon the scene to devour anything in their way in pursuit of laughter and nothing else.

Can contestants survive and still make their way to a successful blackout, or will they be consumed alive??

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THE TRASH KING is a contest and celebration of comedy that is dumb and high commitment! Contestants will bring bits they think are too ambitiously stupid to perform anywhere else to face off against each other in a head-to-head tournament. They will perform their bits for THE TRASH KING, who sits atop his trash throne and judges who WILL ADVANCE in the contest and who WILL BE SENT HOME.

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After filming their smash-hit Amazing Race Audition Tape at FAD 2025, Maddy and Henry are back and more desperate than ever! Join us as we compete in an improvised episode of the Amazing Race live, to be filmed and submitted as our casting tape for the actual show.

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Glow sticks. Bass. Dubstep. Sweat. Soundbox Improv cordially invites you to the summer's hottest party, Soundbox Rave. With the magical combo of long form improv + sound effects that transport you to the clerb, this improv experience with bring hype energy while staying true to the off-beat soundscape that has become signature to Soundbox Improv. @soundboximprov

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Boston's fiercest queer improv show @fruitbasketimprov

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We’re all JUST so busy these days… so cut straight to the good stuff with Cut To It! Our show has rapid-fire games, quick-witted contestants, and the shortest-form improv that you ever did see. Don’t waste time reading more, just swing by the Mainstage on July 11th and let us make you laugh!

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🔥Arson🔥 is an exciting and large improv team from Chicago's CIC theater, which they burn down each and every time they perform. Find pending investigations @arson.improv

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Grinch Debussy is a musical improv team at the Magnet theater. We operate purely on instinct and a little bit of spite. Big swings, characters with physicality, imaginary stage sets, and… angelic harmony. Laaa.

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Let's face it: we all love musicals, but we're too embarrassed to admit it. Fortunately, "jams: a musical improv show" scratches the itch of Broadway without giving up your guise of cool-hip "oh, I never go to Midtown," Brooklynite. Featuring an ensemble of *award-winning* comedians and improvisers plus an accompanist, this show features scenes, lyric, melody, and dance all created on the spot.

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Finally, an improv show that will make you want to go to jury duty! “The Trial” improvises a tense courtroom trial right before your eyes — from dramatic opening statements to thrilling verdict.
The first half of the show is a “Spokane” form in the courtroom; we flash back-and-forth in time from the courtroom to the events pertinent to the trial, all the while “seeing” testimony, witnesses, and evidence along the way.
The second half of the show is a Monoscene taking place during deliberations as a jury decides the fate of the accused.
Can you handle the truth???
Follow us at @thetrial improv

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A stellar team of all black improvisers that have trained at theaters all throughout the city. Get ready to laugh, cry, and meet the love of your life!

Team's IG: @pwi_improv

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BOOBIE TRAP presents beautiful comedy. What kind? See for your dang self @boobietrapsketch

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Five veteran improvisers and sketch performers build an entire world set in a single location. Characters collide, relationships unravel, and something like a plot emerges. It's improv performed with the commitment of theater: grounded, dramatic, yet deeply silly.

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Old Yorkers takes your wildly specific, only-in-New-York stories and turns them into a completely improvised show that's chaotic, unpredictable, and absolutely unrepeatable.

Featuring veteran performers from the Magnet, UCB, Second City, and iO Chicago, including writers and performers from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, Reductress, Broad City, Inside Amy Schumer, At Home with Amy Sedaris, and Improv Everywhere.

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YES AND THE CITY is a fully-improvised Sex and the City show, debuting new and highly anticipated episodes of the original show. In the past, the show has featured SPECIAL GUESTS Ben Weber (who played Skipper in the original series), and also Tristan Lee Griffin portraying Eric Adams (a NYC-character so ya know). The show is RAUCOUS, SEXY, FUN for all fans and not-fans of the original HBO show.

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Only all Muslim improv comedy team in NYC (and the world?!). Comprised of improvisers from improv theaters across NYC including UCB, Magnet Theater, BCC, and beyond. Formed during Ramadan 2025, since performed at venues all over the city including Magnet Theater, Second City, and Asian AF at UCB. Whether we are Halal or not we are always Halalrious 🌙💚

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Award-winning improvisers bring you “high art meets low bullshit” meets clown meets avant-garde theater meets drama therapy meets total insanity. We are preparing to journey to Edinburgh Fringe this summer to rid them of their ills. We will find you - we will heal you - Do not be afraid.

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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.

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Emotionally naked improvised theater.

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HEADLINER: Messing and Lehr are A Delightful Couple, an improvised comedy romp to wherever they want to go.

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HEADLINER: World renowned musical improv ensemble Baby Wants Candy ("Truly Amazing! Critics Pick!" New York Times) makes up a musical based on your title. Some recent titles we've liked "Project Hail Mary Poppins", "Sweeney Toddler" and "Hotuncles.com, the Musical". It will be one of the funnest and dumbest things you'll ever see.

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HEADLINER: @olestra_improv Olestra is a squad of dangerous Chicago criminals who make out and beat the hell out of each other on stage here in New York. They evaded arrest by racking up credits in the entertainment industry; The Tonight Show, The Second City, UCB Betty, The Improvised Shakespeare Company, to name a few.

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The only improv show on a boat. One crew; one ocean; one story for the ages.

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Come watch Middle Pancake explore (or explode?) their unique form THE FLAPJACK STACK, as they create moving, hilarious, and absurd scenes and characters across multiple worlds. This crew of BCC alumni take the MainStage at noon--the perfect time for PANCAKES. (no pancakes provided, this is a BYOP show)

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ARE YOU FOLEY FREAKS READY 2 B UNLEASHED, SLUSH PUPPIE STYLE?!🐶🐩🐾🦴

In this experimental improv show, YOUR sounds make OUR set! We'll bring the mic & soundboard, you just bring your beautiful voice boxes, and maybe a story or two.

(@slushpuppiecomedy)

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@improvised.theatre An improvised play by eight of NYC’s top actors (who also happen to do improv)!
COME WITNESS NYC’S ONLY IMPROVISED PLAY!

The children of Meisner, Adler, Strasberg, Atlantic, and any expensive acting/conservatory come together for one night to give the performance of a lifetime. Together, they will improvise a full-length play that will surely showcase their ability to be dramatic… all based on an audience’s suggestion of the title of the play.

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As all theater kids know, sometimes the best drama happens after the curtains close. At Cast Party, six comedians will improvise their way through a high school drama club cast party based on YOUR suggestions.

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BCC's staff take the stage and we all laugh and laugh.

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Due to ridiculous circumstances, the entire cast who rehearsed the musical you came to see can't make it. But don’t worry, The Understudies are here to fill in! You won't even know the difference. Now what was that musical called again?

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2026!? Whatever happened to 2006…come see Brooklyn's freakiest musical improv group, ANGUS, present your favorite Y2K movie musical that never got made!

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Zebra is a supergroup of veteran performers with a combined 112 years of experience. All audience members are guaranteed to leave this show with an improv boner, and maybe even a real one if you’re a freak.

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DOPPELGÄNGERS (@doppelgangersimprov) is an improv group of six curly-haired lookalikes. At Fun and Dumb, the DOPPELGÄNGERS will perform their coveted DOPPELGÄNGER™ form. At any moment during their set, a DOPPELGÄNGER can tap another DOPPELGÄNGER out to become their character. The transition is so seamless, the audience will not even notice. And if they do... check ya glasses.

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In the Brooklyn improv community, punching down is considered especially heinous. In East Williamsburg, the dedicated improvisors who edit these flops are members of an elite squad known as the @dundunimprov team. These are their sets.

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HEADLINER: Shitzprobe is a fully improvised musical that features a very special guest star throwing away the script to make up a brand-new musical on the spot. Every song, lyric, line of dialogue and dance move is totally improvised, accompanied by a live band creating the score right before your eyes. And YOU are part of the show's creation - shout out the title of a musical that doesn’t exist, and watch it come to life! @shitzprobe

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HEADLINER: ASSSSCAT is UCB’s signature improv show that has played to critical acclaim and sold out audiences across the country.

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HEADLINER: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert may be canceled, but improv from its writers is very much alive.

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