Real TV and Therapy: This Week at the London Improv Comedy Club

We're so far into 2012 now it seems like it's nearly over. Time ticks away on your life as sure as eggs is eggy, so here's the choice: you can spend it inside crying at your laughable sense of self-worth, or you can get out into the free world, to a live comedy night where you can laugh at/with other homo sapiens.

I like using the words 'homo sapiens', it sounds a bit rude but it's also scientific. Students and nurses know about both those things, and they also get in TOTALLY FREE to our events in February (bring your IDs). Winner.

Tuesday 7th February

ARTHUR
and DO NOT ADJUST YOUR STAGE

Another team from the new short-form crowd in town Arthur provide entertainment in the form of crazy new games and scenes, reminiscent of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" (classic). They'll do a selection of old and new games, some so new that you can't even imagine how new they are.

Really new.

And then those beauteous folk from Do Not Adjust Your Stage belt out an evening's worth of television, but they do it with live humans and a tame guitarist. They'll cover all the major TV genres: reality, documentary, soap... all the greats, but they'll create it all in front of your two eyes (one if you're a cyclops).

Tuesday 7th February
Time: Doors 7:45pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5 on the door, FREE to NHS/NUS cardholders.
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.

Wednesday 8th February
HAPPY PLACE:
with MARBLES

The soul-nurturing comedysplosion that is Happy Place is back for 2012.

Stand-up Luisa Omielan (★★★★★ - Three Weeks) will tickle your funny face with jokes.

Sketch duo Allnut & Simpson (‘Intelligently written… talented performers… one to watch’ - Chortle) will be bringing their unique brand of sketchertainment to help you feel better about yourself and the world.

Hosting duties will be handled by the lovely life coach Phil Kozak (Ryan Millar), author of the books 'That's not Unpossible', and 'Cut the Bullcrap!'. He'll be there helping folks work through any issues they may have. Such as deep-seated resentment, fear of success or general malaise.

Then, as always, the bottled lightning that is improv duo Marbles will be holding down the second half. Weaving jokes, characters and off-the-cuff observations into a one-of-kind improvised showtacular.

Wednesday 7th February
Time: Doors 7:45pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: £5 on the door, FREE to NUS/NHS card holders
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.


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EVERYTHING is going on: This week at The London Improv Comedy Club

Tuesday 6th December
STAND UP FOR THE FIRST TIME
New comedians performing stand up for the first time ever, mixed with experienced comedians performing brand new material and improvising routines off the cuff.
It's the friendliest and funnest stand-up night in town, in the funnest and friendliest venue in town.

This week we feature:
Luisa Omielan (compere), Monica Heisey, David Shore, Jon Davies, Roderick Millar, Steve Roe, Jules Garnett, Joe Bains, Chris Bennion, Andy Smith, Emily Howell, Peter Edwards, Joshua Morris, Toby Behrman, Neil Sinclair, Steven Scaffardi, Wanda Keenan, Jonny Armstrong, Daniel Glover-James.

Treats!

Tuesday 6th December
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: FREE!
Where: The Miller, 96 Snowsfields Road, London, SE1 3SS.


Wednesday 7th December
HAPPY PLACE: HORSE & LOUIS & MARBLES & 8BIT & KATY SCHUTTE & GUESTS & OTHERS
Christmas approaches like a train with a mission, so London Improv has an early yuletide present for you: a line-up of excitement that would rival a pudding scoffing contest on a cruise ship.

Horse & Louie ("Plenty to enjoy" - Chortle) get some of the finest musical and comedy guests around, and present them to you with love. They have an amazing eye for talent and are experts in finding the secret gems that the comedy circuit has to offer. Rest assured if they've been chosen by H&L, they are a dead cert - genius-wise.

This week their guests are:

• Loaded Laftas Finalist 2011 Tom Toal, who Stephen K Amos describes as ‘F**king Hilarious’.
• London's finest pizza-based sketch comedy Quattro Formaggio and their ‘Life affirming and buoyant’ (Three Weeks) examination of life in the suburbs.
• The ‘sheer comic gold’ (Metro) of character comedian Dave McNeill who will romp some ‘mesmerising’ (Time Out) personae-driven hilarity.

And in the second half, 8bit team up with Ryan Miller and Katy Schutte to create an unbeatable delta force of long-form improvisation. It's a really special treat, almost like Marbles has teamed up with 8bit, and then added extra Katy Schutte.

Actually it's exactly like that.

There isn't a bucket in the universe that could contain the amount of talent there'll be in the room. Try to find one. You won't be able to.

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


Thursday 8th - Sunday 11th December
SILLY STRING THEORY
At last, it's here! The buzz can finally reach it's crescendo.
One of the most exciting impro projects (don't do it... "improjects"... ugh) this year. The cast have been rehearsing solidly for 2 weeks and on Thursday will debut Silly String Theory.

This ground-breaking show picks strands from our lives and explores how we meet, part, love and live together.
Belly laughs and tears, loyalty and betrayal, the banal and the fantastic.
An ever-changing theatrical feast with understated Broadway-style songs.

It's a huge project and it's going to be phenomenal. Don't miss out....

Dates between 8th - 18th December
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8pm - 10pm with interval.
Cost: From £7.50 .. BOOK HERE
Where: The Canal Cafe Theatre, Delamere Terrace,
London, W2 6ND.


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