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!
Moms Against Sketch Comedy performs an hour of their best material.
Your favorite improv teams Go Dummy and Full of Bones combine forces for a night of laugh-out-loud 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: DJ Soggy Bottom
Baby Wants Candy is one of the best known, longest running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
Inspired by an audience suggestion we will improvise a buddy comedy, featuring lots of laughs, hijinks, and heartfelt moments.
New year, new jokes. A night of new material presented by Allison O’Conor featuring her favorite comedians.
If you’re tired of sitting at home and moaning, that means it’s time to pack up and get going.
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: Blumpkin, We Share A Bed, Wild Houses
Rainbow Riot celebrates the joys of Blackness and Queerness in Comedy.
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: TBA
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: ALL HOME TEAMS MASHUP TEAMS!
Join Jake Fallon and Liz Coin for a night of comedy, or as their dads call it, "not for them."
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.
When a sketch group does improv, the natural order is inverted.
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man… This is the dimension of improvised Twilight Zone on the BCC Mainstage...
Enjoy stand up and improv from your favorite up-and-coming comedians. And who knows…you might even learn a little more about yourself!
Come and meet some freaks at the only talk show set in purgatory!
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: TBA
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.
A moving seminar for anyone who has been putting something off for way too long to do it live on stage.
Cup Of Worms is a clown collective comprised of past BCC students who fell in love with the craft and each other!
What happens when an obnoxiously tall gay and moderately short gay come together to make sketch comedy?
Do you hear the harmony...? The correct answer is no, you don't hear a thing. Because this isn't musical improv, and because these three improv teams have been buzzing at a frequency of 639 Hz since their serendipitous first show alongside each other.
Zero rings in the new year with chaotic and joyous improv!
We have a web series coming out! And unfortunately this is costing us money which is so crazy!!
The best improv team in the world is back — and we've spent the last month snowed in and spiraling.
FIRST JAM OF THE YEAR @ ERIS MAINSTAGE
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!
Fast paced, high energy, and filled to the brim with chaos, NYC’s premiere improv team Duchovny presents “Improv Night in America”! A show dedicated to the moments in our life that would be perfect for “America’s Funniest Home Videos”.
MEGASQUIRT is splashing down into the Pig Pen with new music and sketch, featuring some of their funniest friends from #squirtnation.
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only.
Opener: TBA
“Females Be Like” is an all-femme standup comedy show based on the online muttering of men on Facebook.
As the audience, you will finally know what it's like to be an improviser yourself for the very first time.
What better way to kick off the new year than with some of the funniest homegrown sketch comedy the BCC community has to offer?
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: Blumpkin, We Share A Bed, Wild Houses
Bad Advice is an interactive comedy show that is half-character panel, half-improv show and 100% based on real audience questions.
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: TBA
Season Never Finale is the improv show that refuses to let good Black TV die.
Great improv and the best acts in NYC, bring your Grannies!!
This crew of 9 comedians will be performing nothing but new characters! Get your ticket and see who we’ve become in 2026!!
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.
I’ve assembled some of the smartest stand up comedians I know to teach me a thing or two about life.
No one makes things up like frat boyz. Come reunite with your college besties at improv night at the BCC Frat Haus.
Opener: Obsessed With Us
These girls will be using only 2 chairs 4 heads and 8 hands to come up with funny scenes from whatever our callers suggest.
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: TBA
An hour of sketch comedy brought to you by a slew of sketch comics.
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.
God's Website will take you there, if you let us...
Come be unapologetically [insert non-white race here] and unapologetically goofy on stage with us on the 4th Friday of each month at 7pm at the BCC Pig Pen!
Free for BCC Students w/ suggested donation to Div. Scholarship!
Whether you are currently injured or simply expecting, let us introduce you to the finest legal minds Brooklyn has to offer.
Legendary improv duo Mike Jest & John Randall do forty five minutes of the Chicago-style comedy!
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!
These veteran improvisers and long time friends deliver fast-paced, wild style, Deep-Dish, Chicago Style 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: TBA
We are Performance Artists, utilizing the Art that is Improvisation, not simply to make you Laugh (haha), but to make you Feel.
Downtown Sicko Torture Squad is a lethal and unkillable group of God dethroners, massacre addicts, and hostage situation exacerbators.
Two Home Grown Musical Improv teams take Your audience suggestions to create an evening of Improvised Musical Magic.
Join Gen Z's most eclectic troupe of musical theater extraordinaires for a night of infinite possibilities, empty promises, and skibidi alpha rizz.
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: TBA
Join Ella and Joe and friends for an hour that will bust your gut and blow your mind.
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.
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: TBA
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.
Strip down and crash out with Chicago ex-pats Francesca Bucci and Hails Reeves. Bringing some of their favorite scalding hot sketches to New York.
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!
With a special guest monologist from their "past", PITIFUL will be the greatest reunion of "comedic proportions"!
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only.
Opener: TBA
Join us for the hottest game of Bingo you have ever played accompanied by clown, burlesque, standup, drag, and more!
NLVS is back! This time, we are celebrating Black culture and history through hilarious sketches and special guest comedians!
Two Home Grown Musical Improv teams take Your audience suggestions to create an evening of Improvised Musical Magic.
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!
ANNOYING is a fully improvised show by a long-standing group of performers who met at Annoyance Theater NYC many, many years ago.
New Year, Same semi-improvised late night talk show!
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
In this experimental format, your sounds shape our improv set!
You'll laugh so hard, you'll think you're on a boat!
Ah, what a year it's been. The BCC has grown and grown and the community is stronger than ever. We couldn't be more grateful and excited for 2026. But now...it is time for the Holiday Break.
Please enjoy these memes while you enjoy your holidays and we enter the New Year! We’ll be back with shows on Jan 9!
-- The BCC Elves <3
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only.
Opener: TBA
Fast paced, high energy, and filled to the brim with chaos, NYC’s premiere improv team Duchovny presents “Improv Night in America”! A show dedicated to the moments in our life that would be perfect for “America’s Funniest Home Videos”.
Come one, come all for the last forever jam of the year @ Eris Mainstage!!! We will be making hoilday cookies, having a forever jam, and then we have strict orders to be merry and have a good time !!!!! improvise and eat and drink and dance and hang with your pals one last time this year!!!!
Free for BCC Students w/ suggested donation to Div. Scholarship!
The best improv team in the world is back this month with a seasonal special.
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!
Legendary improv duo Mike Jest & John Randall do forty five minutes of the Chicago-style comedy!
These veteran improvisers and long time friends deliver fast-paced, wild style, Deep-Dish, Chicago Style Improv.
Santa Claus is coming to the BCC Mainstage in this clown show where you’ll discover the true meaning of Christmas.
Students from the Sketch Level 2 Class, instructed by Alise Morales, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
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.
Students from the Stand Up Level 1 Class, instructed by Shalewa Sharpe, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Clown Level 1 Class, instructed by Tallie Medel, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
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: Caitlin Hollis & Hannah Rehak, The worlds most interesting sisters
Students from the Sketch Level 1 Class, instructed by Devin Bockrath, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Miranda Rozas, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Join Paul Bearers for our annual White Elephant, where we'll give each other gifts that we HAVE to use onstage
Students from the Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #3 of 3!
Students from the Stand Up Level 1 Class, instructed by Sara Hennessey, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
No one makes things up like frat boyz. Come reunite with your college besties at improv night at the BCC Frat Haus.
Opener: Zero Improv
Students from the Improv Level 3 Class, instructed by Maria Randazzo, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Cast members bring ideas from improv sets previously performed, and rehearse, refine, and crystallize them into their sketch form to ensure maximum energy and vulgarity.
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Maya Sharma, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
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.
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