Improv Club

Originally an underground organization started by Isaac Miller and Casey Samoore, Improv Club gained official club status with Student Senate in Spring 2011.

Contrary to what the website says (on the 101 Fun Things To Do page) there is NOT an improv troupe called Spontaneous Intrigue. Not any longer.

The unofficial drink of the improv club is called a liquorvagina (pronounced 'liquorpussy'). It is made with a secret recipe and enjoyed with a sugared rim.

From deep within its bowels several harrafying creatures have emerged, such as the Sexy Manatee, the Drunk Bitch, and Andrew Cook.

In early 2011 the females of the group bonded and became known as "tacos". Think about it. This tradition is currently being quashed by the organization in an attempt for overall unity. Not to say that we all don't enjoy a good taco now and again.

Leadership

WHO TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS?

2013-14 <properties> Presidents=Andrew Cook and Alyssa Gill (Together Aldrew Gook, Andyssa Coil, or simply &) Vice President=Katie Greve Treasurer=Roman Magid Secretary=Natalie Polechonski PR=Julie Wertheimer and Michelle Secunda Le Duc D'Improv=John Budding </properties>

2012-13 <properties> President=John Budding Vice President=Duncan Cochran Treasurers=Alyssa Gill and Andrew Cook Secretary=Andrew Cook PR=Alyssa Gill Les Ducs D'Improv (our official post-bac title)=Casey Samoore and Isaac Miller </properties>

2011-12 <properties> President=Casey Samoore Vice President=Nick Sheridan Secretary=Andrew Cook </properties>

2010-11 <properties> President=Casey Samoore Interim President=Skylar Arend Vice President=Nick Sheridan Treasurer=Lauren Bradley Secretary=Skylar Arend </properties>

Show History

April 13, 2013: Knox Improv Club held the first ever (annual?) "Improv Fest," in which Monmouth College and Western Illinois University joined us for a full day of workshops, culminating in a large show with performances by all three colleges. We performed in Kresge, and hit a record audience count!

February 2013: Oddly Specific

January 2013: Bill Cosby Slowly Melting, which has Andrew Cook's favorite show title ever.

October 28, 2012: The second show of Fall Term: Misplaced Manhood/No More Narwhals in the Alumni Room. There was a great turnout.

October 2012: Improv starts off with a BANG with the first show of the year, UNCONTROLLABLE SASS. The show was held in Ferris Lounge and on parents' weekend. The room was packed, and as a result there were people who had to stand in the hallway and look through the open doors in order to watch. The room also got very hot, but that was mostly a result of the incredible attractiveness of the improvisers.

May 2012: Improv holds The Outskirts of Canada in the Rog Lodge. It was intimate, but pretty not-bad!

April 2012: Improv returns to studio theatre for Shapes Are Great!, directed by Andrew Cook. It featured four troupes of four or five performers, each specializing in a longform structure--Musical Montage, Genre, Clowning, and Close Quarters.

February 17 and 18, 2012: Improv does a couple classy-ass shows entitled THIS IS NOT A GUN in Old Main's Common Room and Alumni Room. They went pretty well--surprisingly, people were willing to trek through the not-snow to such an unconventional venue for lulz. After the great success of Saturday night's show, Andrew Cook transmogrified into the Drunk Bitch when he saw the light of the full moon.

January 24, 2012: Improv Club performs at a stand-up open mic night in the Roger Taylor Lounge. Longform. Shartfarm. Ahrange groves.

October 29, 2011: Improv Club holds its official fall show INFINITE SUMMER CAMP in the Rog Lodge. Various shartfarm games were played as well as four longform games. It was our first show to feature KICKIN' POSTERS. It was held as a charity event. Audience members were encouraged to bring cans, which happened. They also were able to pay $1 to stick their hand in a giant bag of candy and grab as much as they could. As of November 8, 2011 there was still at least half of the bag left, and it's probably still in Casey's apartment somewhere.

October 10, 2011: Improv Club participates in an event held by Quiver to advertise for their magazine and provide a hilarity to Gizmo-goers. Various members of the club performed five shortform games at intervals.

May 2011: Improv Club holds a small show in the newly completed Rog Lodge. Notes were taken for future improvements, and the upstart club developed schemes for a new, shinier production.

April 2011: Improv performs during a mic check at Lincoln Fest. "A gig's a gig's a gig's a gig." --Casey Samoore

January 2011: Ben Lee directs Improvapalooza and its sequel Improvapawinner in studio theatre. 'Twas a huge three-part show involving shortform and longform games, and loads of people came out of the woodwork to be in it--30ish of them, to be (in)exact. As of April 2012, this is still the largest cast of any Club show yet. ORANGE GROVES.

Winter term 2011: Casey Samoore is away on urgent business being hit on by Barcelonian hookers, so Skylar Arend runs Club as interim prez.

November 2010: As Isaac Miller siphons talent from the Club proper, club president Casey Samoore and some club members volunteer land a gig in Joey Firman's studio theatre production, OPENstage. Things went good, as I hear it!

October 2010: Isaac Miller directs Blood and Vodka and its hit sequel Blood and Vodka in 3-D in studio theatre. Both involved sa variety of shortform games and a Bastard Harold to end the night. The performers were Isaac Miller, Nick Sheridan, Ben Lee, Ernie LoBue, Katie Johnston, John Budding, and the lowly freshmans Andrew Cook and Alyssa Gill. The first weekend of shows featured improvised monologues delivered from an Eastern European perspective, but when this was deemed potentially offensive, Isaac changed things up: 3-D featured monologues about blood and various types of alcohol.

A picture from Improvapalooza, circa January 2011: