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unusual facts about improv comedy



Faith Soloway

She studied theater at Indiana University and performed improv comedy regularly, along with leaving school to tour with Second City.

Jester of Columbia

In addition to publishing the magazine, the group puts on comedy events, containing sketches, improv comedy, and an event reminiscent of the antics of Andy Kaufmann, where an audience was forced to watch other students eat dinner for 30 minutes while listening to madrigals.


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Adam McKay

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.

Chris Grundy

Grundy started his career as a performer in improv comedy groups in the Denver, Colorado area such as Chicken Lips, Impulse Theater, and Rattlebrain Theater.

Farai Chideya

She graduated from Harvard in 1990, Magna Cum Laude, and was a member of the improv comedy troupe The Immediate Gratification Players.

Kirsten Gronfield

Kirsten Gronfield (born November 29, 1977) is an American improv comedy actress.

Laird Macintosh

Macintosh is a member of the The Groundlings, a Los Angeles-based sketch and improv comedy troupe.

Sarah Saltzberg

She has appeared off-Broadway as Helen in The Donkey Show, Cherry in Sinfully Rich, as Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, in her one-woman show Dear Diary (Broadway Spotlight Series, Ars Nova), as well as throughout NYC in long-form improv comedy with the Upright Citizen's Brigade.