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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Forest.” The show will also feature groups from several other colleges. Due to the Roving Reporter’s lack of comedic talent, this paragraph is not interesting.Kevin T. Burrows ’10RR: Tell me about the Immediate Gratification Players.KB: IGP is a long-form improv comedy troupe. Usually what we’ll do is take a one-word suggestion and then we’ll kind of riff on that for about 45 minutes, just branching between scenes. It’s usually pretty fun.RR: Isn’t this supposed to be instant...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ROVING REPORTER: IGP Laugh Riot Festival X | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...Lubetkin's troubles clearly went beyond Mitzi Shore and the strike. "He obviously had some deep-rooted psychological problems," says Richard Lewis, a friend since their days together at the Improv in New York. "Also an unbearably bad run of luck." Lubetkin had missed out on several TV opportunities, including a heartbreaking mishap with The Tonight Show. After he had been booked to make his first appearance on Carson's show, Lubetkin was cutting up onstage late one night at the Comedy Store when a Tonight producer happened to be in the audience. The producer didn't like what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy at the Edge Excerpt | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...There are no events scheduled yet for the space. While Eisenbarth said she thinks that there will still be “a ton of rock shows,” she envisions that the space could be used as a performance area for singing groups, plays, improv shows, or slam poetry. “We’re trying to give the Cage new life,” she said...

Author: By J. nicole Anderson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: House Masters Reopen The Quincy Cage; No Events Yet Planned For The Basement Arts Space | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...film gets some stray buoyancy from John Michael Higgins, familiar from Arrested Development and the Christopher Guest improv comedies. ("Oh, he's always good.") Higgins plays Willie, the head elf, who's in love with a normal-size blond cutie and, after some romantic blind alleys, winds up with her. Parents are advised to ignore their more precocious kids' questions about how that little thing goes into that big thing. But they may have to tangle with workplace issues on the North Pole assembly line. Either the elves are making the generic toys (a bike, a sled, a dreidel) that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Claus That Won't Fly | 11/11/2007 | See Source »

...Parents,” and to the ever-famous “Yo Quiero Taco Bell” Chihuahua of the fast-food chain’s campaign. He starred in his own half-hour stand up comedy special on Comedy Central and performs live at the Hollywood Improv, The Ice House, The M Bar, and The Knitting Factory...

Author: By Victoria D. Sung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Comics ‘Stand’ Our Questions | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

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