Many advanced actors know how to cry on command—a skill that’s especially useful when stopped by a traffic cop or when pretending to whittle an onion. Watch the pros think on their feet with this deal to a comedy show at Improv Asylum. For $30, you get two general-admission tickets to a regularly scheduled improv performance (up to a $50 value, including all fees).

Ad-libbers-at-large Chet Harding and Norm Laviolette put on the very first Improv Asylum show in the spring of 1998. After a 15-year history of off-the-cuff comedy and a large, rotating cast, the club delivers night after night of its signature blend of audience-suggested premises and prewritten sketches and songs. The main stage currently hosts the new production Nostalg-sick, bravely plumbing the better-forgotten depths of the ’90s. In Vanity Project, the Asylum’s co-founders don sharp suits and join main-stage actors Jeremy Brothers and Matt Catanzano for two full sets of long-form improv. Many productions help orient newcomers and give shout-outs to native audiences alike, including the Sunday show Lost in Boston and film spoofs including the trailer The Oscar Winning Boston Movie.