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624033, Anyone really into improv comedy? A post about it maybe?
Posted by Y2Flound, Mon Aug-27-12 09:13 AM
Searched for a while and only found quick mentions of improv now and then through various posts over the years, but is anyone really into it both doing and watching?

I've been into it for a while, but started taking classes back in February and coming up on 7 months I'm totally bought in. Pittsburgh has a really great budding scene, it's not Chicago or NY or Philly, but the first 100% longform improv comedy theater opened here in 2011 and has grown huge very quickly.

They sent 4 teams to the Del Close Marathon this year which is a big deal for a theater that is still very new, got a lot of press for it, and were named best addition to the comedy scene by Pittsburgh Magazine.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/theater-dance/steel-city-improv-groups-to-take-laughs-to-nyc-642060/?fb_action_ids=10100805727362843&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=246965925417366

Anyone regularly participate or have favorite podcasts, groups with videos online, lessons to teach etc...

I'm on a few teams personally but still only 7 months in still have a lot of work to do, this is my main team who got ourselves hyped by basically doing a youtube series that is mostly improv but follows a plot that followed our getting ready for our first show. It was pretty popular so we kept it going, feel free to throw us a like if you enjoy supporting people trying to do something.

https://www.facebook.com/LeakyBasement

Our youtube videos are here, though I doubt anyone feels like watching since you kind of have to start from the very begging since the first bunch were character introductions before plot starting in 'season 2'

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLeakyBasement/videos

Point of this post wasn't to just hype my group though, just something I'm totally into right now after starting to do it in February and just seeing if other people are into long form improv and want to talk about it.
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