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.
Betty Kubovy-Weiss has never had a serious boyfriend. In a new series, He Likes Me Not, she interviews the guys who have rejected her to find out why.
As seen on ‘America's Got Talent', Chicken Big Goes Weekly at the BCC!
An uplifting, bonkers invitation to misbehave, laugh at our flaws, and dance through the chaos - Come Save World!
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: Freshly Squeezed, John Randall Duo
A wise gay sage once said, join us for a one-night-only, non-therapeutic, possibly healing, definitely intriguing semi-circle of a comedy show.
As featured in the The New York Times….come 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.
Tickets: FREE
Let’s see what new theater is COOKED up by these playwrights.
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!
beta bl0ckers is a new comedy collective. there are 9 of us. we’re gen z girls and gays who make fun sh*t together.
The demons are doing the best of the best sketches from the BCC’s flagship improvised sketch show.
The Award-winning improv team Bad Magicians have been sent to this Earth to make humans feel again through the art that is improvisational 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!
Closed for private comedy show and event for filmmakers as part of the Brooklyn Film Festival!
Fresh off of their run in the NYC Duo Improv Tournament, Hill Giants bring together some of the best duo teams in the city.
It’s not easy being a fat hottie in the world or in comedy but we’re here and we’re not going anywhere ok?
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
What happens when an obnoxiously tall gay and moderately short gay come together to make sketch comedy? They accidentally go viral (and not in the sexy way).
WARNING: THIS DANGEROUS, SEDUCTIVE BOUFFON-CLOWN may transform you.
“Very, Very Funny”. NY TIMES
Students from the Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #1 of 3!
Queens-core presents “Improvised King of Queens,” where comfort TV gets hijacked and pushed until it breaks!
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: Reece Borden
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: Winebear, 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 IT’S DOG TEAMS: HAPPY TO BE HERE, CANDLE AND LANTERN, STROKE
Come laugh, dramatically gasp, win a prize, forgive yourself for being weird, but probably mostly laugh.
You love Gay Guy Improv….. and now it’s monthly….. and now imagine us with a special guest each month!
As seen on ‘America's Got Talent', Chicken Big Goes Weekly at the BCC!
Gather round our campfire to see what sketches Bundle and Save have cooked up for their third mainstage show.
Sociology meets Family Feud in a manic, fever dream, game show.
As featured in the The New York Times….come 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.
Tickets: FREE
"Chic" is an adjective meaning stylish, smart, and currently fashionable. All words that also aptly describe our sketch comedy.
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!
Maya and Pearl welcome all queer identifying improvisers to BCC’s monthly queer improv jam
If you’re looking for a beefy, juicy improv night, this is the show for you.
Extra Guests, Extra fun, and FREE DESSERT!! Come on by to laugh while you eat cake you didn’t have to pay for.
¿Qué? is a Spanish-speaking improv team with one white guy who doesn’t speak any Spanish. It’s comedy anyone can understand!
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!
Strip down and crash out with Chicago ex-pats Francesca Bucci and Hails Reeves.
New York's funniest comedians will make you laugh with hilarious material they usually save for their besties.
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only.
Opener: Tummy Troubles
Leave the irony at the door, honey. It's Gay Church! Hosted by Art. Director of BCC: Philip Sparkle!
Students from the Musical Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Katy Berry, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #2 of 3!
Sports are cool and all but stand-up comedy is cooler!!
After a successful first show, it’s time for Philip to “Reheat his month old nachos” with a brand new hour of Pop(Ken) Culture.
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 IT’S PIG TEAMS: CAMELOT, BUCKET TV, IMPROVISED COLUMBO
Students from the Stand-up Level 1 Class, instructed by JoAnn Schinderle, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Improv Level 3 Class, instructed by Tej Khanna show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
As seen on ‘America's Got Talent', Chicken Big Goes Weekly at the BCC!
Students from Clown Level 1, instructed by Tallie Medel, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Clown Level 1 Class, instructed by Hannah Mitchell, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
As featured in the The New York Times….come 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.
Tickets: FREE
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!
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
Students from the Wednesday Stand Up Level 1 Class, instructed by Sara Hennessey, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
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!
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: California Twin
Friends will become lovers, lovers will become fiends, and at the end of the day all we can do is laugh.
Baby Wants Candy is one of the best known, longest running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
Rainbow Riot celebrates the joys of Blackness and Queerness in Comedy.
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 IT’S DOG TEAMS: HAPPY TO BE HERE, CANDLE AND LANTERN, STROKE
No one makes things up like frat boyz. Come reunite with your college besties at improv night at the BCC Frat Haus.
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!
As seen on ‘America's Got Talent', Chicken Big Goes Weekly at the BCC!
As featured in the The New York Times….come 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.
Tickets: FREE
Hosted by and featuring Devon Arnold, the variety show returns to celebrate Juneteenth + Pride (for obvious reasons) with original sketches, interactive games, and special guest comedians.
Students from BCC’s Improv 1 Intensive w/ Taylor Gonzalez show-off what they've learned in their jam-packed week!
Students from BCC’s Clown Intensive (Sec. 2) w/ Jeff show-off what they've learned in their jam-packed week!
Students from BCC’s Clown Intensive (Sec. 1) w/ Tallie show-off what they've learned in their jam-packed week!
Students from BCC’s Improv 2 Intensive w/ Maya Sharma show-off what they've learned in their jam-packed week!
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 IT’S PIG TEAMS: CAMELOT, BUCKET TV, IMPROVISED COLUMBO
A comedy infused with puppetry, drama, and a little bit of showgirl magic.
As seen on ‘America's Got Talent', Chicken Big Goes Weekly at the BCC!
As featured in the The New York Times….come 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.
Tickets: FREE
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!
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!
Legendary improv duo Mike Jest & John Randall do forty five minutes of the Chicago-style comedy!
The best improv team in the world is back this month for an unforgettable improv experience.
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!
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 IT’S DOG TEAMS: HAPPY TO BE HERE, CANDLE AND LANTERN, STROKE
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 IT’S PIG TEAMS: CAMELOT, BUCKET TV, IMPROVISED COLUMBO
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 IT’S DOG TEAMS: HAPPY TO BE HERE, CANDLE AND LANTERN, STROKE
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 IT’S PIG TEAMS: CAMELOT, BUCKET TV, IMPROVISED COLUMBO
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 IT’S DOG TEAMS: HAPPY TO BE HERE, CANDLE AND LANTERN, STROKE
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.
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.
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 IT’S PIG TEAMS: CAMELOT, BUCKET TV, IMPROVISED COLUMBO
Look. Times have been hard. But we are going to heal, okay? 50% variety show, 50% wellness retreat, 100% run by a woman who desperately needs this.
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: Big Miss Steak, Twin Dogs, and Horsegirls
In this intimately absurd hour, Claire Woolner attempts to perform a retrospective of her ‘greatest’ most ‘moving’ and ‘important’ pieces.
“If the performance artist Marina Abramovic were a clown” - the New York Times
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: Abbi Thompson, Austin Estrada, Kevin O'Brien, and Heather Marulli
A comedy book club aiming to raise literacy rates one comedian at a time.
Musical Improv All-Stars w/ Musical Director (Adrien Pellerin), Create an improvised Musical based on (Your) audience suggestions.
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only.
Opener: Downtown Sicko Torture Squad
For one night only 3 captains put together their dream team of favorite improvisers.
KACHONK moves loudly through the mundane grind of life, searching for tactile experience and more caffeine.
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!
Each team brings a unique comedic style, yielding what can only be described as a PERFECT HOUR OF IMPROV HARMONY!
Twelve improvisers will get all dressed up to shake, rattle, and roll their way through the Soundtrack form, using only the songs you'd hear at a 50's dance to inspire scenes.
Legendary improv duo Mike Jest & John Randall do forty five minutes of the Chicago-style comedy!
Students from the Physical Storytelling 101 Class, instructed by Broken Box Mime Theater, show off their hard work from the last 5 weeks!
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 Dog House!
Free for BCC Students w/ suggested donation to Div. Scholarship!
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!
Escape into the absurd and magoofical city of Rooftopopolis, from the bizarre mind of New Yorker cartoonist Will Kiley Santino! Followed by a reception at the Dog House Gallery.
As featured in the The New York Times….come 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.
Tickets: FREE
Enjoy a cozy movie night with host John Robles and a panel of friends. What's streaming? Everyone's favorite dystopian movie of the 2010s: The Hunger Games.
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: Hannah Rehak, Steve Forrest
As seen on ‘America's Got Talent', Chicken Big Goes Weekly at the BCC!
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
Improv teams, Zero and The Working Group co-host a show where they battle to see what the future of improv will be!
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.
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.
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 IT’S DOG TEAMS: HAPPY TO BE HERE, CANDLE AND LANTERN, STROKE
"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel.” -Dean
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