Austin Improv

poltergasm wrote:Yeah, I mean, that's a pretty harsh list, Jon boy. Yikes.

My sincerest apologies, Andy.

Highlight below for a secret message:

Seriously, I went too far

It's okay. We are even now after my "nerd" posts to your Facebook.

Nichols & May
JTS Brown reunion
Heather & Miles
Convoy (before Heather & Miles' UCB LA Cagematch run, they held the record for longest streak)
Diamond Lion (musical improv, UCB LA/NY)

Mother reunion (Scot Armstrong, Tara Copeland, Jon Daly, James Eason, Jesse Falcon, Jason Mantzoukas, Doug Moe, Jessica St. Clair, and Christine Walters): Mother's been one of my favorite groups ever. They were great improvisors and actors, but as a team, they were even more amazing. They started out as a UCB-NY Harold team in 1999 & moved up to weekly weekend shows and had one of the longest runs at the theater before most of them to LA.

Bare (Chicago; http://fuzzyco.com/bare/main.html): Fuzzy Gerdes & Shaun Himmerick are still one of the best two-person improv shows I've ever seen. They don't perform out a lot but they'd put on a great show.

Messing With a Friend (Susan Messing + a special guest)

Children of a Lesser God (Susan Messing, Rachael Mason, Emily Candini, Kate Duffy)

Cool County Social Club (for the nth time)

3 for All (or any assemblidge from BATS in San Fran)

Rapid Fire Theatre (these folks are super talented, particularly Mark Meer)
http://www.rapidfiretheatre.com/

The Nuclear Family (if they are still together, best musical improv I've ever seen, completely minblowing!)
http://www.thenuclearfamily.net/

Crumbs (soooooo good.)
http://crumbscomedy.blogspot.com/

SAK Comedy Lab
http://www.sak.com/

Dad's Garage
http://dadsgarage.com/

seconding
TJ & Dave
Death by Roo Roo

adding:
Centralia with Todd Stashwick guesting
Bassprov with Richard Linklater and/or Matthew McConnaghy guesting in the boat
Dratch & Fey
Scheer and McBrayer
Key and Peele
Hot Tub with Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunholer

lesser names, really good:
The Kristen and Amie Show (Philly)
Ghost Jail (Vancouver)
4Track (NYC)


and if you want to talk reunions:
Naked Babies which includes Rob Corddry, Seth Morris, John Bowie and Brian Husky)
Respecto Montalban (Chad Carter, Danielle Schneider, Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer, Jackie Clarke, Rob Huebel, Owen Burke and Dannah Feinglass)

At CIF I took a great workshop with Jon Barinholtz and Rob Belushi. They have a show called "Sheldon" that was also at CIF.

The workshop was on vulnerability and it resulted in some really great scenes.

http://chicagoimprovfestival.org/events ... ersonally/

Trophy Wife
USS Rock n Roll
Bandit
Local 132
King Ten
Opening Night: The Improvised Musical

Would love to take a workshop from

Michael Pollock
Shulie Cowen
Mike Coen
Aaron Krebs
Bridget Klos