Fracas Improv Jam

This clip was taken from the fourth annual Fracas Improv Festival at USC which was offically sponsored by The Onion. This was the last ensemble Improv Jam session from the only purely collegiate improv festival in the country.

The three day festival featured 18 troupes from around the country including:

Birdstrike Theatre (UC Davis)
BUICK (UCLA)
MRS Degree (USC)
Improvability (UCSB)
Comedy Corner (UofA)
Vidushak (USC)
Laser Squad Bravo! (LMU)
The Charles Darwin Experience (UofA)
Someone Always Dies (UCSC)
Commedus Interruptus (USC)
jericho! (UCB)
Live Nude People (UCI)
Barren Mind Improv (ASU)
Humor Force V (UCSC)
Second Nature (USC)

There were also discussion panels with members of The Upright Citizen's Brigade, MadTV, NBC's The Office, and more!

PANEL 1: Improv and Sketch Comedy
at Ground Zero
with: Frank Caeti (MadTV, Second City), Heather Campbell (Boom Chicago, The Groundlings), Sean Conroy (The Swarm, UCB, Late Night with Conan O'Brien), Keegan-Michael Key (MadTV, Second City), Megan Kellie (The Great Sketch Experiment)

PANEL 2: Improv and the Entertainment Industry
with: Jordan Black (Halfway Home, The Groundlings), Michael Bunin (My Boys, ImprovOlympic), Andrew Friedman (Studio 60, The Groundlings), Melora Hardin (The Office), Angela Kinsey (The Office, ImprovOlympic)

PANEL 3: Short Form & Long Form
with: James Thomas Bailey (artistic dir., ComedySportz), Eric Hunicutt (dir. of training, Improv Olympic), Seth Morris (artistic dir., Upright Citizen's Brigade), Brian Palermo (The Groundlings)

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• fracas
• improv
• festival
• usc
• 2007

[MrFawiggles]

bOOM PAAAA!!!!!!!

(it gets me every time)

[Erikakathleen]

dave is my hero.

the end.

[LaChampita2]

"I'm going to call on my dancing minstrel." That was awesome.