Olympic Games | Olympic | International Olympic Committee | Summer Olympic Games | Winter Olympic Games | Olympic Stadium | United States Olympic Committee | Italian National Olympic Committee | Olympic Peninsula | European Youth Olympic Festival | Olympic Park | Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool | United States Olympic Training Center | RMS Olympic | Olympic weightlifting | National Olympic Committee | 2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men | improv | Canadian Olympic Committee | RMS ''Olympic'' | Peoples Improv Theater | Pakistan Olympic Association | Olympic Village | Olympic Stadium (Montreal) | Olympic Stadium (London) | Olympic Club | Ice hockey at the Olympic Games | 2008 Women's Water Polo Olympic Qualifier | Youth Olympic Games | The Improv |
He is one of the founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade improv comedy group and a former performer at Chicago's Improv Olympic, where he was a member of the improv group, The Family, whose members included Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Neil Flynn, Miles Stroth, and Ali Farahnakian, and Child's Play Touring Theatre.
After moving to Chicago, he made a name for himself at the Improv Olympic performing in the influential two-man improv show ZUMPF with his teacher Miles Stroth.
Soon after graduating, Makinson moved to Los Angeles where she studied at Improv Olympic, going on to become a stand-out performer in groups like Brand X, King Ten, and The Armondo Show.
In 1991, Stroth began studying long-form improvisation with Del Close and Charna Halpern at what was then called Improv Olympic, now the iO Theater in Chicago.