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Greetings,

Oh man, you guys. Can you believe the Austin Sketch Fest is already on its third year? Doesn't it feel like only yesterday that a plucky group of Coldtowne babies--for so they were at the time--decided that Austin deserved its very own sketch comedy festival, a weekend of scripted ...

We're getting closer to our numbers, but we need one last big push!

Volunteering for Sketch Fest is fun, easy, and results in you being able to see great shows for free. Also, maybe a T-shirt?

DO IT!

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Greetings, future Austin Sketch Fest volunteer:

("Who, me?" says you. "Yes, you!" says me.)

Thursday, May 26th through Monday, May 30th (Memorial Day weekend) is the second annual AUSTIN SKETCH FEST ! (Hosted by Coldtowne Theater, an American humor ...

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Greetings, future Austin Sketch Fest volunteer:

("Who, me?" says you. "Yes, you!" says me.)

Thursday, May 26th through Monday, May 30th (Memorial Day weekend) is the second annual AUSTIN SKETCH FEST ! (Hosted by Coldtowne Theater, an American humor ...

It's back tonight, with Secret Senate and Rachel & Dave. ONLY A TOTAL CHUMP WOULD MISS IT!

Hey folks. I'm just raising this question here because there are so many improvisers here who also programmers or who work in the world of high tech.

Are there any services in town that provide effective classroom training in HTML, javascript, and CSS? I'm thinking of places like New Horizons , but ...

TexasImprovMassacre wrote:Skits (improvised twilight)

For whatever reason, this completely slayed me.

In hell, they've prepared a special room for Del Close where he will have to pay ten dollars to see people be not funny for all eternity.

He hasn't been put in there yet because they're waiting for Keith Johnstone to die too.

Comparing improv skills to athletic skills is for troglodyte jocks who can't let nerds have anything that's just for nerds.

Bill Stern is the single worst human being that I have ever known.

The absolute best thing you can do to prepare for an improv show is to smoke a ton of weed, and anyone that says otherwise is a virgin.

Another thing that virgins like to say is that rehearsing is important. If you are going to rehearse, it should be for something that doesn't suck -- not improv ...

Men aren't funny.

But women will never get to experience the pain and joy of bearing a child.

Also, improv is better than literature but not as good as professional sports.

And Joss Whedon is OVERRATED.

The only thing that sucks more than the Harold is narrative improv.

And the only thing that sucks more than narrative improv is people who think that they can teach improv, because you can't teach improv, and even if you could you shouldn't because improv sucks.