Monthly Archives: October 2006

Knowing Your Characters

In preparation of a practice group I was leading this weekend, focusing on character work, I wanted to be able to define the differences in creating characters. Although I hadn’t thought about it before, improv characters can come in many different flavors. I realized that knowing what character type you typically play, can make a [...]

Musical Improv Class taught by Eliza Skinner

Hi improvisors. Thought you may be interested in a musical improv class taught by Eliza Skinner. If you don’t know Eliza Skinner, she is probably one of the most talented musical improvisors performing in New York at the moment. She’s part of I Eat Pandas, Stickerbook, writes for Hello Hilarious, and also performs in the [...]

Head In The Oven

The lovely ladies who star in Head In The Oven, hosted Harold Night last night at UCB. They debuted their first episode, which I have to say was pretty funny even for my snobby “nothing compares to Python” tastes. Plus, I have the exact same outfit as the blonde.
Talk about embarrassing.

The Best Comedy In The Universe Festival at UCB

UCB New York has announced their The Best Comedy In The Universe Festival. The line up looks pretty amazing featuring performances by Dave Foley (Kids In The Hall), John Oliver (The Daily Show), Stephnie Weir (Mad Tv) and Bob Dassie of Weirdass, Eugene Mirman (Comedians Of Comedy), Billy The Mime (From “The Aristocrats”), Christian Finnegan [...]

Improv Books Will Screw You Up

I’ve read a lot of books about improv. I find it a subject I can continually read about and almost never get bored. Improv books serve as a excellent foundation of any improv student trying to round-out their improv education. They bring alternate approaches to understanding improv concepts that can help strengthen you as an [...]

What’s Happening?!

That’s right, we now have our own super up-to-date calendar (in the sidebar, look to your right) of events around town, thanks to our very special friends over at upcoming.org. We’ll be adding new events as we see them, so if you have a show and want to be listed add it to upcoming.org with [...]