Improv-comedy shows, unlike criminal-court proceedings and open-heart surgeries, encourage people in the room to shout out suggestions. Explore the extemporaneous with this GrouponLive deal.
Choose from Three Options
- $28 for two general-admission tickets to an improv show (up to a $26.50 value each) and two drinks (up to a $7 value each) at The ComedySportz Theatre (up to a $67 total value, including all fees), valid through Saturday, September 29
- $85 for a four-day festival pass to The ComedySportz World Championship 2012 at the Athenaeum Theatre on July 18–21 (up to a $150 value, including all fees)
- $25 for two general-admission tickets to a single show at The ComedySportz World Championship 2012 (a $50 value, including all fees)
During a ComedySportz show, two improv teams compete for laughs, using audience suggestions to create unscripted scenes, songs, and games. The National Anthem plays before the show, and a referee calls fouls throughout the performance. The evening culminates with a tally of points and the audience voting on the best team.
A four-day tournament pits the greatest ComedySportz players from the United States and Europe against each other as they compete for the title of ComedySportz World Champion. Nineteen teams will face off, attempting to corral the most laughs during short-form improv scenes, songs, and games.
The ComedySportz Theatre
At The ComedySportz Theatre, audience suggestions keep an all-ages, family-friendly and fast-paced vortex of scenes, games, and songs spinning in competitive shows that pit two improv teams against each other. Inside the intimate, 149-seat theater, spontaneity rules as a referee moderates the all-ages-appropriate hilarity pitched between the Chicago Bosses and The Evanston Express. At the end of each comedic duel, the points and audience votes are tallied to determine the winning team, sentencing the losers to feed the doves that live inside the winners’ top hats.
ComedySportz's laugh-masters also host regular workshops to teach aspiring yuksters the art of improvised hilarity and the essential virtues of spontaneity, risk taking, and engagement with the moment. Through scene work, ComedySportz games, and short- and long-form improv, students learn to keep audiences roaring in order to jump-start a career or become a more affable bank robber.
The ComedySportz Theatre and Training Center
At The ComedySportz Theatre, audience suggestions keep an all-ages, family-friendly and fast-paced vortex of scenes, games, and songs spinning in competitive shows that pit two improv teams against each other. Inside the intimate, 149-seat theater, spontaneity rules as a referee moderates the all-ages-appropriate hilarity pitched between the Chicago Bosses and The Evanston Express. At the end of each comedic duel, the points and audience votes are tallied to determine the winning team, sentencing the losers to feed the doves that live inside the winners' top hats.
The ComedySportz Training Center's seasoned instructors also teach six-week courses in the art of improvised hilarity and the essential virtues of spontaneity, risk taking, and engagement with the moment. Through scene work, ComedySportz games, and short- and long-form improv, students learn to keep audiences roaring in order to jump-start a career or become a more affable bank robber.