Shows @ Eris or The Pig Pen
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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.
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.
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.
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: Our First Fight, AM 2 PM
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!
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!
Have you ever been at a variety show and thought to yourself, "I'm hungry.." ? Well, come eat.
After some sketch from the Disco Horses, watch the girls of Gag Reflex do an hour of improv!
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!
From the tortured mind of the other, other Wachowski sister (Nannearl) comes a film that finally answers the question "what if The Matrix was about Caitlyn Jenner?"
Sports are cool and all but stand-up comedy is cooler!!
A brand new weekly stand up show brought to you by our beloved BCC stand up faculty!
Featuring: Karishma Maraj, Clay Horwitz, Noah Friend
Students from the Musical Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Katy Berry, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
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.
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FUN & DUMB IMPROV FEST ‘26
Fun and Dumb is a 4-day festival celebrating all things improv, the silly stupid good stuff we just can't get enough of! 750 + performers. 200+ shows. 3 Stages. Workshops galore. It’s one of the largest improv fests in the world.
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“The most talented (and demented) members of NYC’s comedy elite unleash all hell at the always-lit BCC.”
There’s no gift like comedy.
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