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You saw the best now come check out the best of the rest. Join The Rural Juror has they host the best improv teams NOT to get into The Del Close Marathon. Join this group of hilarious rejects as they "yes, and", "heighten and explore", and play the "rule of three". August 1st from 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM The Rejects rule Del Close.

With:
Hens and Owls
Rap Crimes Division
Bully
The Rural Juror
Population Larry
Dirty Blonde

$5

Long ago in a galaxy far far away two Southern girls met. They both loved chicken fingers and shiny objects. Together they formed the sketch duo... Geek Dreams.

about Sunday Funnies
The Sunday Funnies are every Sunday at 7:30pm in 2010. Established comedy groups North Coast, Switzerland Geek Dreams, The Pill, and City Hall will rotate every week to perform their own material as well as mentor developing comics who are interested in performing at the Tank. Never to impose drink or table minimums, Comedy at the Tank aims to provide the highest quality and dedication to the comic craft in New York City.

Trapper John Improv is a fascinating mixture of eight players from four different top improv schools (UCB, Second City, The PIT, The Magnet). Coming together into one big creative force with longform scenes that aren't afraid to experiment, they will keep you laughing long after the final bow. TJ Improv has players with backgrounds in comedic acting, stand up comedy, short form, long form, and more!

Doppelganger is a group of funny ladies who do comedy stuffs in NYC. You’ve probably confused one member for the other…or the other...you know, she's the black girl who does improv. Oh wait, there's more than one?

Long Division is comprised of the surviving acolytes of Nils Sutphen, the Dutch physicist who in 2002 supercharged the troposphere over Halse, causing a low ionic decay that has illuminated the sky there since. Sutphen, whose improvisatory approach to mathematical theory was widely ridiculed in the science community, was dissipated in the experiment. (Says one Long Divider: “He was ubiquitous and infinite in that moment, and he suffuses us. Since then we have tended to breathe in more often than out, so as not to be dispossessed of his animus.”) The acolytes continue Sutphen’s techniques of improvisation. “We’ll run the sets over and over again, changing the pattern ever so slightly, until a unified field theory emerges.”

An evening of Laughter from the Left with an all-star cast of Laughing Liberally fan favorites that regularly appears on Comedy Central, NPR, the Huffington Post, C-SPAN and the Onion. A comedy show which uses humor and laughter to spread understanding of liberal ideas and advance progressive values.

Laughing Liberally has toured the nation, performed at the Democratic Convention, Netroots Nation and run off-Broadway.

presented as part of the Liberal Arts Summer School

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MacGuffin Comedy, because sometimes you just need to be like "What was that?"

. . . in a good way.

True to its name, MACGUFFIN, which is a term used to describe an event, character, or object that motivates the scene forward but isn’t what the scene is about, is one step ahead of the audience’s expectations. MacGuffin members have studied with New York’s finest improv theatres including The Upright Citizens Brigade, Gotham City Improv, and The PIT. Come see for yourself what people have been raving about for centuries and what Alfred Hitchcock once called, "brilliant, astounding, and my f****ng word"!
MacGuffin is Nash Bennett, Nick Carrillo, Patty Devery, Josh Hurley, Rebecca Vigil, and Tracy Mull.

www.macguffincomedy.com

"Rachel and the Elf" have been performing together for almost a year, and Rachel's parents really want the two of them to get married. So they are going to. In a variety show. Rachel Getting Married to The Elf is a new variety show hosted by comedy duo: "Rachel and the Elf." The show will feature magician Nelson Lugo, Storyteller Joanna Bradley, INNY Award winning comedy duo The Chris and Paul Show, the musical stylings of Azwan, and the long awaited wedding between Rachel Cole and Nisse Greenberg. Rachel's parents should be happy.

Every Sunday for four weeks (2pm-5pm)
Enrollment $100

This four-week course, taught by Kevin Laibson, gives experienced improvisers a chance to exercise their skills in a format outside the structural confines of long-form or short-form comic improv. Based in the work of Viola Spolin, Paul Sills, and Michael Gelman, this workshop is an exercise in improvisational theater, offering tools for the improviser/actor to get on stage with a partner and allow themselves to get out of their own way as they create a ten-minute play.

about Kevin Laibson

Kevin Laibson has taught workshops on improvisation, story theater, and Spolin technique all around the country for organizations such as the New York Film Academy, Second City, and the Boys and Girls Club of America. As artistic director of Full Circle Theatre Company, Kevin directed the twice-extended Off-Off-Broadway revival of Jeffrey, and the Off-Broadway debut of Marta Rainer's acclaimed Unaccustomed to my Name. Regionally, he has directed for the Village Productions, Exclamation Theater, and the Tri-Country Performing Arts Center in and around Philadelphia. In 2009, he directed Skyscraper National Park, an experimental improvisational theater troupe which performed on rooftops in Brooklyn. He is a graduate of the New Actors Workshop, where he studied acting and improvisation under Mike Nichols, Paul Sills, Rex Knowles, and Sherry Landrum, and studied at Second City under Michael Gelman, Mary Scruggs, Norm Holly, and Anne Libera. He currently teaches acting and improvisation at the New York Film Academy and performs with the National Comedy Theatre’s New York team.

about The Indicators
A troupe of 10 young men and women dedicated to providing the highest quality live entertainment possible at affordable rates, 'The Indicators,' Combine their collection of award-winning short films with an explosive live improv set.

about Sunday Funnies
The Sunday Funnies are every Sunday at 7:30pm in 2010. Established comedy groups North Coast, Geek Dreams, The Pill, and City Hall will rotate every week to perform their own material as well as mentor developing comics who are interested in performing at the Tank. Never to impose drink or table minimums, Comedy at the Tank aims to provide the highest quality and dedication to the comic craft in New York City.

Welcome to: Singles Night - A comedy that tells the story of dark lords and brave knights who come together to mix, mingle and decapitate each other...all in the name of love. Featuring the debut of: The Gotham Warriors - AND! Don't miss a full performance with our special guests: Start Trekkin' - Showtime 7pm (Start Trekkin' at 7pm - The Gotham Warriors at 8pm)

Start Trekkin: http://start-trekkin.com/
The Gotham Warriors: tw3productions@gmail.com

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about North Coast
North Coast is New York's only long-form improv team that incorporates freestyle rapping and beatboxing into their form!! Performing consistently around New York City, North Coast's shows have been categorized by audience members as "high energy", "impressive", and "hysterical". So come out and see North Coast hold it down like a hippo on a see-saw! It's always fun and oh-so fresh!

about Booth & Pat
Born out of a bitterness that can only come from years of children’s theatre and insomnia, Booth Daniels and Patrick Frankfort decided to put their decade of friendship and bizarre conversations into a conglomerated duo act – part comedy, part song with just a touch of the off-kilter. Hailed by Broadwayworld.com as “the Smothers Brothers on crystal meth” and praised by WOR’s Joey Reynolds as “crazy, but talented”, Booth & Pat are taking the entertainment world by storm, or at least a moderate drizzle. With original songs and covers, they promise an evening of quirky entertainment, which is melodic, spontaneous, warped, but most of all, funny

about Sunday Funnies
The Sunday Funnies are every Sunday at 7:30pm in 2010. Established comedy groups North Coast, Geek Dreams, The Pill, and City Hall will rotate every week to perform their own material as well as mentor developing comics who are interested in performing at the Tank. Never to impose drink or table minimums, Comedy at the Tank aims to provide the highest quality and dedication to the comic craft in New York City.