Weekend Recap

The evening started with
Babelfish: Nathan Stewert and Joe Henley. Featuring Jared Brustad

Followed by
Poke: Tommy Todd and Trish Berrong

Improv Thunderdome Round 3 started with
Burnin Sternums: Rob Grabowski, Nick Rigoli, Trish Berrong, Keith Curtis, and Pete Calderone

Followed by
Fluffer Nutter: Nifer Honeycutt and Jessica Robins

Followed by
The Winners: Type O Positive
Ryan Seymour, John Robison, Tricia Davenport, Jeremy Danner, and Tim Marks

Photos by Rita

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Improv in the Press

First The Pitch covers Improv at The Westport Coffeehouse:

Poke, Babel Fish and Improv Thunderdome This third round of Improv Thunderdome, the three-shows-for-one-cover comedy competition, should again demonstrate to Kansas City just how daring, diverse and unpredictable the art of improv can be. Go at 7 p.m., and you'll be treated to two of the best new troupes in town: Poke, the improvised duet between first-class performers Trish Berrong and Tommy Todd; and Babel Fish, Joe Henley and Nathan Stewart's brainy, allusive, theater-of-the-absurd spectacular, which feels like it should earn you college credit.

Then the Star covers it:

Scriptease, the winners of the second round of Thunderdome, are (from left) Rene Boudreaux, coach Rob Grabowski, Andrew Brant, Drew Davidson, Tommy Todd and Clayton Ingram.

The Improv Thunderdome 2.0 holds its third round Saturday at the Westport CoffeeHouse, 4010 Pennsylvania. The scheduled competitors are Burnin’ Sternums (Trish Berrong, Pete Calderone, Keith Curtis, Rob Grabowski and Nick Rigoli), Fluffer Nutter (Niffer Honeycutt and Jessica Robins) and Type O Positive (Jeremy Danner, Tricia Davenport, Timmy Marks, Ryan Seymour and John Robison).

The show begins at 9 p.m. The winning team will join Some Technical Difficulties and Scriptease in the finals Sept. 27.

Babel Fish (with Joe Henley, Nathan Stewart and guest Jared Brustad) and Poke (Berrong and Tommy Todd) will also do a show at 7 p.m.

Then, in the star's upcoming events list under Theater/Comedy:

Comedy City, Roving Imp, and Improv Thunderdome are all mentioned.


You want more information about all of these shows...click through the links on the right.

Cool News: Reporters investigating Kansas City Improv

We have heard from many improv insiders that The Kansas City Star has been interviewing numerous amounts of improv leaders throughout the community including but not limited to: Clancy Hathaway of Comedy City, John Robison of Roving Imp, Tina Morrison of Full Frontal Comedy, Jared Brustad of Improv Thunderdome and The Trip Fives, and Trish Berrong of Exit 16 and Tantrum. There have even been sightings of photographers at shows of those mentioned above. Sources say there is going to be a huge write-up about the improv community during the Festival. It might possibly even come out the Sunday after the national shows, in order to help sell tickets for the local shows the following weekend. Stay tuned, as soon as it is out, we will have a link here.

Happy Birthday: Full Frontal Comedy

Full Frontal Comedy started flashing their comedy in the fall of 1998. For the complete story click HERE.

Happy 10th Birthday Full Frontal!

Update: New Groups

Sure, they aren't that new of an improv group, but they finally have a web page we can link to.

Loaded Dice

Roving Imp is also not a new group/theater, but John Robison has been hard at work creating new groups within the Theater. Here are some samples:

Trivial Prov-suit
Dictionary Soup
Red Rubber Ball
Omega Directive

You can check out all of the groups websites by clicking on the links to the right to see performances and other updates.

Jason Sudeikis and family in the Kansas City Star

We promise, this blog is not just about Sudeikis, but it doesn't hurt that he is from Kansas City and he is driving the ticket sales for the upcoming Festival.

Check the article HERE

Jason Sudeikis in ESPN The Magazine

HERE is the Link