Word: improvization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...troupemates may not be ready for Saturday Night Live or The Daily Show, but groups like The Brown Standup Comics are playing a lead role in the vibrant comedy scene that is springing up on college campuses around the country. Stand-up comics, sketch comedy troupes and improv groups are performing in packed auditoriums, dormitory lounges and cafeteria halls at their own schools and occasionally taking their shows on the road to other campuses. Some colleges have even begun offering stand-up comedy courses. "The stand-up comedy movement on campuses is blossoming," says Doug Holsclaw, whose stand-up comedy...
...married parents and single parents. The family is set abuzz in the pilot when Stepgrandpa Wendal (Max Gail) announces that he's leaving Grandma Colleen (Dee Wallace)--and then doesn't. The material is typical family-comedy stuff--money fights, bedroom troubles, sibling rivalries--but the show's conversational improv rhythms and realistic, documentary style make Sons and Daughters worth adopting...
Nate Stahlings (Josh Dean), new college grad, is starting adult life on the slow track--specifically, the move-back-to-your-folks'-house-in-Missouri track. Ride is, like Sons and Daughters, partly improvised (creator Rob Roy Thomas brought us Bravo's improv-com Significant Others), and that gives the slacker comedy an appealing, meandering feel. Good-hearted, eccentric and wry, Ride goes nowhere fast, but it has a fine time getting there...
...Currently, Averell performs in a local improv troupe, and, according to Eirich does “odds and ends jobs—extra work on TV shows, commercials...
...Improv comic, tour guide, former UC Rep, and snake tamer, Sam has little left to accomplish in his life except to be an associate for FM. He already runs a small country, and we hear he invented Facebook/Dormaid. We welcome the young man aboard, and don’t forget, for when you’re old—Teller is Steller...