Improv Asylum – The Comic's Comic

Boston’s Improv Asylum has opened up in the former UCB Theater home in NYC

November 8, 2018

A year after the Upright Citizens Brigade left Chelsea to move their NYC theater up 16 blocks to Hells Kitchen, there’s improv and sketch comedy afoot underneath Gristedes once more. Improv Asylum, based in Boston for 20 years, reopened the joint last weekend. They’re currently offering shows only on Friday …

Boston, NYC comedy venues improvise their own wager over Patriots-Giants Super Bowl

February 4, 2012

Friendly sports championship wagers aren’t just for mayors anymore. New York City’s The PIT (Peoples Improv Theater) has put a challenge to Boston’s Improv Asylum that hinges upon Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVI between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots. The losing team’s representative comedy venue must travel …