Finesse, finales and fat-cats: This week at the London Improv Comedy Club

Hello... is it meat you're looking for?

It's a big fat week here at London Improv Towers. We've got improv showdowns coming out of our ears (literally) and we've got special guests booking future slots like there's no tomorrow (literally).

Tuesday 27th March

FAT KITTEN vs. ARTHUR
and THE MAYDAYS

We begin at the beginning: when improv was first invented Del Close and Keith Johnstone stood at the top of a mountain and shouted "LET THESE PEOPLE COMPETE!" A day or so later Ken Campbell 'yes-anded' it and added "TO THE DEATH!" And so, this week Arthur and Fat Kitten will comedy-fight to the death in a battle of wit and bribery.

When they're done and the survivors stand panting over the corpses of the fallen, The Maydays will lighten the mood with their magnificent heads. And you know what Ben from Lost would say: "I can help you, Goodwin, if only you go and see The Maydays."

Tuesday 27th March

Time: Doors 7:45pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.

Cost: £5 on the door.

Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.

Wednesday 28th March
CATCH23: HIATUS QUO!

IMPROV COMEDY SHOWDOWN

Some of you may know Catch23 as London's most improvised improv show, some of you may know it as a great night out watching some of London's best improvisers do awesome work for a fiver. Some of you have no idea what Catch23 is.

Well, you've got one more chance to see it folks! Catch23 is going on "hiatus". For how long? If I was pushed, I'd say "A while?"

Wednesday night! 8pm! A self-immolating fireball of consequence-free comedy is going to punch you in your laugh-balls! Without consequences, it's like the jokes have already taken the morning after pill! It's exactly like that! Holy crap!

Featuring a whole bunch of stuff, including but not limited to these things!

Improv-Rhyme Gods - Marbles! (confirmed)!
One half of record holding champion team Children of the Quorn - Joe Morpurgo! (unconfirmed)
The Pyjama Men (NOT TRUE)
Blondest of The Penny Dreadfuls - David Reed! (unconfirmed)
Most Dedicated Catch23er of all - Charlotte "The Rock" Gittins! (confirmed)
GTI's tallest - Phil Whelans! (super-confirmed)
GTI's Beardest - Dylan Emery (unconfirmed)
Some kind of robot! (unconfirmed)
Catch23's most bewildering and popular judge - BIG RICHARD JACKSON! (confirmed)
The Ghost of James Caan! (NOT TRUE)
Canada's most popular export - David Shore! (unconfirmed)
The King of London Improv - Jon "J-Funk" Monkhouse! (confirmed)
The other half of record holding champion team Children of the Quorn - Monica Heisey - is trapped in Toronto! (confirmed)
Some other things! (confirmed)

Wednesday 28th March

Time: Doors 7:45pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.

Cost: £5 on the door.

Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.

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Flex your powerful fightin' Musicals: This week at The London Improv Comedy Club

Tuesday 24th January

THE MUSIC BOX CABARET

Music Box are back, for their first show since the New Year (there's a lot of that about in January). They present a bunch of ace acts in their cabaret night, selected with your head-thoughts in mind.

On the 24th, they are joined by magic from Sanjay Shelat - the most English magician of the Raj.

Then all-girl (feeep!) improv group Girl Band - regular house group at The Slug & Lettuce in Waterloo show us their lady-comedy.

And finally, Music Box themselves (★★★★★ - Remote Goat) provide us with some high/low brow (delete as appropriate) entertainment in the form of an entire improvised musical.

"I've never seen musical improv tackle such a range of styles" - Fringe Guru
Tuesday 24th January
Time: Doors 7:45pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5 on the door
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.

Wednesday 25th January
CATCH 23:

IMPROV COMEDY SHOWDOWN
Monkeys are cool, right? Everyone knows that. Now imagine a monkey with a gun. Blam blam blam! Got you! Cooler. Now imagine the same monkey driving a Bugatti. Through an ice field. While being chased by the dogs of Mount Olympus. Do you get it now? What about now? Now?

Now?

Okay - new tactic - Maths is stupid, right? But what about maths to the power of light?

What about this: a Ford Focus doesn't deserve to be. But one being driven at the speed of thought out of Big Ben's clock face? Yes. That.

"Of course," you're saying. "Improv comedy showdown". Bingo.

To custard rim the missing explanation holes, we've asked resident self-help guru Professor Stephven Doctors to run up the lowdown on the show in this short visual presentation.
Wednesday 25th January
Time: Doors 7:45pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5 on the door
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.


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The Maydays and a Catch 23 Hallowe'en Special - This Week at the London Improv Comedy Club

Tuesday 25th October
DO NOT ADJUST YOUR STAGE
and THE MAYDAYS
"TV is dead, long live TV!"
Do Not Adjust Your Stage encourage you to take their name literally as they jump up and improvise a full evening's television schedule, right there in front of your face. Will you see a documentary about penguin wrappers/rappers? Will a soap opera be set in a log cabin in Birmingham? Will singing? Could be.
They are funny. Watch them.

Then follow their delicious TV soup with a sweet sweet impro-veteran dessert. The highly respected Maydays trek all the way Up North from their home town of Brighton.. all the way to London Bridge to treat us to themselves. The Maydays have been at it for years, making laugh happen where no-laugh existed before. Well done them. And well done you, for turning up.

"...one of the best improvised shows out there, and you get the feeling that any of these actors could easily hold their own with the likes of Merton, Frost and Jupitus...a must see"
★★★★ - Chortle
Tuesday 25th October
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.

Wednesday 26th October
CATCH 23:
HALLOWE'EN SPECIAL!
It's the London Improv Improv League, where teams of improvisers compete to be given high acclaim and snogs from passing streetwalkers. It's a shot at (local) fame. It's an excuse for drinking and laughing in the same room. It's the final struggle between human and void. It's CATCH 23!

And this 'ere week, it's only blummin' hallowe'en 'n that. 'n.
So prepare yourself for ghoulish goings on, sinister competitive backstabbing, evil giggles and sabotage. Bring your best monstrous suggestions for the performers and prepare for bloodshed.

[insert laugh sound effect from Michael Jackson's Thriller here]

Wednesday 26th October
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.

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