ANNOYING is a fully improvised show by a long-standing group of performers who met at Annoyance Theater NYC many, many years ago.
Your favorite improviser's favorite improv show - Improvised Columbo. Now in its third season, cast favorites join series regulars for an absurd melodramatic, completely made-up full-length episode of the original 70s TV Series.
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.
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!
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: Mosh Squad, Horseshoe Theory
For one night only, Girl Mountain is bringing a cast of new characters to life.
Descend. 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.
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic.” - The New York Times
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
Come to the world’s funniest most awesome comedy show, made by girls and gays for girls and gays and also everyone else.
2023 CBS showcase girlies and certified freaks Alise Morales and Jetta Juriansz invite you to present your weirdest 3 minutes of characters at this bucket open mic. Seriously - the weirder the better. Just don't be racist. Guest Host: Chine Ikoro
FREE
No one makes things up like frat boyz. Come pledge at improv night in the Deep Space of the legendary “BCC fraternity.”
Opener: Skip Skip
Department of Gay Ecstasy (DOGE) is a variety comedy show making fun of our absurd political climate that we are all supposed to act normal in.
Do you hear the harmony...? The correct answer is no, you don't hear a thing. Because this isn't musical improv, and because these three improv teams have been buzzing at a frequency of 639 Hz since their serendipitous first show alongside each other.
Do you want to see the dumbest, most laugh out loud comedy acts in NYC together in one show?! This one's for you.
Students from BCC’s Character Workshop class, instructed by Jamie Linn Watson, show off their hard work from the last 5 weeks.
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!
The hottest BIPOC performers in all of NYC come together on this special night to fix all the world's problems with comedy.
Catch an hour of improv from some of the best Chicago folks living in New York!
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only. Each week a cast member gets to play team captain and decide what special rules for that show would make them laugh. Sit back, relax, and watch the chaos unfold.
Opener: Zebra
Baby Wants Candy is one of the best known, longest running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
For one night only, witness the eternal struggle of good vs. evil... but make it funny!
School's in session! Come watch BCC teachers fuck up everything they teach in this wild-style improv show, followed by an improv jam featuring anyone who wants to play onstage with our teachers! Feat. a post-show improv jam with the teachers!
Students from the Stand Up Level 2 Class, instructed by Shalewa Sharpe, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks! Show #1 of 2!
Students from the Improv Level 3 Class, instructed by Julian Hernandez, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Stand Up Level 2 Class, instructed by Shalewa Sharpe, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks! Show #2 of 2!
Students from the Sketch Level 2 Class, instructed by Nick Mestad, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Maya Sharma, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
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.
Students from the Wed Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Taylor Gonzalez, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Wed Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Taylor Gonzalez, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
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: SLOP
Audiences write REAL SECRETS, we create a MUSICAL on the spot.
Descend. 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.
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic.” - The New York Times
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
A high energy competition that finally answers the question "can comedians dance."
Students from Broken Box's Mime Class show off what they've learned over the past 5 weeks.
Students from the Improv Level 1 Class, instructed by Molly Ledbetter, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #3 of 3!
Students from the Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Miranda Rozas, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Sketch Level 1 Class, instructed by Micah Sterenberg, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
It’s a real-life Hunger Games out there, but BCC's 2025 Sketch Revue has the power to change all that!
Fast paced, high energy, and filled to the brim with chaos, NYC’s premiere improv team Duchovny presents “Improv Night in America”! A show dedicated to the moments in our life that would be perfect for “America’s Funniest Home Videos”.
Students from the Stand Up Level 1 Class, instructed by Yedoye Travis, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only. Each week a cast member gets to play team captain and decide what special rules for that show would make them laugh.
Opener: Candlelit hot dog dinner for two
Students from the Clown Level 3 Class, instructed by Tallie Medel, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks! (Show 1 of 2)
A lip-synced performance of SATC Season 1 Episode 11 "The Drought". One drag queen, four hard front wigs, the greatest story ever told.
Real-life married couple Piper Ruhmkorff and Shaunak Godkhindi have been performing improv together for 10 years and now comprise the duo Ice Cream Near Me Open Now, named for their most commonly searched phrase on Google Maps.
They say that tragedy + time = comedy, so let’s skip to the comedy part.
Students from the Advanced Personal Notes Class, instructed by BCC Artistic Director Philip Markle, show off their hard work.
Students from the Clown Level 2 Class, instructed by Chris Manley, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
Students from the Sketch Level 2 Class, instructed by Nick Mestad, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks!
Students from the Sunday Improv Level 2 Class, instructed by Micah Sterenberg, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks.
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.
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.
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: TBA
Descend. 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.
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic.” - The New York Times
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
Legendary improv duo Mike Jest & John Randall do forty five minutes of the Chicago-style comedy!
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!
It’s a real-life Hunger Games out there, but BCC's 2025 Sketch Revue has the power to change all that!
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only. Each week a cast member gets to play team captain and decide what special rules for that show would make them laugh.
Opener: The Family Men
Students from the Clown Level 3 Class, instructed by Tallie Medel, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks! (Show 2 of 2)
A laugh-out-loud, knee-slapping, hour-long musical journey.
Check into the White Lotus for an improvised musical full of glamour, intrigue, and murder!
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.
Lil Weenieprov is a Chicago show that celebrates what we believe to be the best form of improv: smallprov!
Lil Weenieprov is a Chicago show that celebrates what we believe to be the best form of improv: smallprov!
No one makes things up like frat boyz. Come pledge at improv night in the Deep Space of the legendary “BCC fraternity.”
Opener: Skip Skip
Co-hosts of hit London alt-comedy night 'Soft Play Area' and best-friends, Maria Telnikoff and Vidya Divakaran, come together for their debut double-act comedy hour in which they play EVERY GREAT DUO IN HISTORY.
Welcome to Shoulda Coulda Woulda! Your monthly improvised love advice spectacular!
This show is going to be so sweet, it's guaranteed to leave you saying, "I'LL HAVE WHAT SHE'S HAVING!"
A live table read of a screenplay written in five hours, based on audience suggestions.
LIPGLOSS is heading to the BCC Deep Space for a night of improv, whimsy, courtship and canoodling.
Welcome to the BCC's longest-running haus improv show - where everything is totally made up on the spot, for one night only. Each week a cast member gets to play team captain and decide what special rules for that show would make them laugh. Sit back, relax, and watch the chaos unfold.
Opener: Scottsdales
An evening of improv and stand-up celebrating what’s really important in life: family and big asses (not necessarily in that order).
I couldn't help but wonder…..do you want to watch a FULLY IMPROVISED Sex and the City?
Sebastian, Pearl, and Maya welcome all queer identifying improvisers to BCC’s monthly queer improv jam
¿Que? is a Spanish-speaking improv team with one white guy who doesn’t speak any Spanish. It’s comedy anyone can understand!
It’s a real-life Hunger Games out there, but BCC's 2025 Sketch Revue has the power to change all that!
If you’re looking for a beefy, juicy improv night, this is the show for you.
Dead Ass Love U (@deadassloveyouimprov) has entered the group chat and is flooding it with 2016-era memes in the form of improv.
A night of brand new material by Allison O’Conor, Indigo Asim, Vince Sise, and their friends.
A variety show that combines all your favourite comedic elements from stand-up to sketch and even improv from the severed floor.
Full of Bones has been performing together for 3 years, which is like 20 years in improv time.
Descend. 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.
“The right mix of scrappy and chaotic.” - The New York Times
Tickets: FREE with a suggested donation to BCC Diversity Scholarship fund.
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: Andrew Bourne
TwoLips Theater Company is proud to present a selection of four of the world's most unproduced one-act plays.
The Monkey’s (gay guys) will dance and clap (perform improv) for the King (our audience).
Students from the Improv Level 4 Class, instructed by Andy Junk, show off their hard work from the last 7 weeks. Show #1 of 3!
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.
Frogs host a ribbiting hour of standup and improv. See you there? Ribbit.
Four amazing improv teams take the stage for an hour of unpredictable laughs, absurd characters, and off-the-cuff chaos!
A night of improvised comedy, debauchery, and agony unlike anything you’ve ever experienced
Burnt Toast Sketch Show is a high-octane, queer-run, absurdist take on sketch comedy.
The People’s Princess — watch girls and gays do improv with their natural enemy — a tech bro.
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