improv comedy – The Comic's Comic

Episode #278: Matt Besser

October 28, 2019October 28, 2019

Matt Besser is known as one of the co-founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade, which began as a sketch comedy group in Chicago, moved to New York City, got a TV series on Comedy Central, and opened up theaters and schools teaching improv and sketch comedy in both New York …

R.I.P. David Shepherd, improv legend who co-founded The Compass Players

December 19, 2018December 19, 2018

David Shepherd, who co-founded the Compass Players in Chicago with Paul Sills in 1955, thereby giving birth to a revolution in improvisation and comedy which led to The Second City and much of everything we know and love today about sketch comedy in America, has died. Shepherd was 94. Born …