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LOVESPRING INTERNATIONAL LIFETIME, MONDAYS, 11 P.M. E.T. Work and love are two classic subjects for sitcoms, so it only makes sense to combine them. This improv comedy is set at an "élite Beverly Hills dating service"--actually located in Tarzana, Calif.--that is staffed by a neurotic crew of "relationship consultants." Cast with versatile veterans of improv shows like Reno 911!, Lovespring also features a daffy string of customers both demanding (a woman offers $10,000 to have her dog deflowered) and satisfied ("He learned some things in prison that really make me happy"). The concept has been tried...
...BITES MAN COMEDY CENTRAL, WEDNESDAYS, 10:30 P.M. E.T. In this comedy about an inept Spokane, Wash., news crew, the cast members also "report" on real events whose participants don't know they're speaking to actors. This may be the most highly hyphenated sitcom ever--scripted-improv-reality-mockumentary--but it's highly entertaining. Focusing on the bitter rivalry between an intern turned producer (Andrea Savage, above left) and her former boss-lover (Matt Walsh, above, second from left), it may even be funnier than your local newscast...
...holding back. "I could actually be a lot bigger," he says, crediting his theater work in Chicago, where his parents ran a company that trained such actors as John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Aidan Quinn, Lili Taylor and Lara Flynn Boyle. When he got his job at Second City, the improv group sent out the former high school linebacker in a troupe separate from hyper Saturday Night Live comedian Chris Farley's. "There are certain energies you just need to separate," he explains. A few minutes in, we switch tables at the restaurant because his shoulder feels pinned against the wall...
...storage or stress release, the closet has been transformed by a dedicated group of Lamonters into a space for late-night cheese soirees. But as papers and exams have compounded in recent weeks, these acts have escalated as student sanity has deteriorated. On Monday night, six students from the improv comedy troupe On Thin Ice huddled conspicuously in the corner of the Ginsberg Reading Room as 2 a.m. neared. With the room’s attention guaranteed, the students reverted 20 million years in the evolutionary process and started to scale the walls. In a matter of seconds...
...existence sure is. Talk about the politicization of comedy. Next we'll get focus groups and image consultants ("Those clown shoes need to be three inches longer if you want to bring in the soccer moms") and Joe Klein will write a book about how no one does improv anymore...