6:00 PM FREE |  Happy Hour!The jam we've all been waiting for! Happy Hour! is The PIT's answer to all those out there thinking, "I wanna see a free show at 6:00 on Fridays with $3 drinks where I might be randomly picked to jump up onstage to perform without a script." There are four rotating formats with different hosts. So Happy Hour! never falls down and in a crumpled heap in the john, it just stays buzzed and bubbly. |
7:00 PM $8 |  RimbomboI am improv. I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world! Call me Kevin Allison, Eliza Bent, Andrew Burns, Ryan Feyk, Grace Helbig, Jenn Hibbs, Matt Hobby, Heather Kenzie, Randy Pearlstein, Greg Portz, Nikhil Rao, Noam Rosen and Steve Siddell. Have you guessed me yet? I am a booming roar. I AM RIMBOMBO!
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8:00 PM $8 | The Ultimate Gossip Girl SummitHilarious reenactments, trivia games, prizes, and a fierce moderated debate featuring GG experts Richard Lawson/LOLCait (Gawker), Diana Saez (Sirius), Jen Kwok (NBC Stand Up For Diversity), Heather Fink (Street Meat), Rya Backer (MTV News), Ces Marciuliano (Emmy-winning writer) and GG VIRGIN Jon Friedman (Rejection Show). Hosted by Sara Benincasa (MTV's Total Request Live, Family Hour.)
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9:30 PM $8 |  Elephant LarryElephant Larry presents one jam-packed hour of genuine sketchified entertainment, guaranteed to knock your socks off. Using their patented fusion of video and stage sketchery, Elephant Larry's new show is bigger, better, and funnier than any sketch comedy show that has ever existed since the beginning of time. website
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11:00 PM $8 |  Windy City RebellionCome see a mix of some of Chicago's best Improv, Sketch, and Standup comedians in New York City. The Windy City Rebellion is a night with veteran Chicago comedians From The Second City, The IO Theater and The Annoyance Theater, hosted by improv team Broad Shoulders. "Chicago comedy kids are taking New York by storm" — TheBastion.org
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Students ranging from working comedians and absolute beginners learn about adding dimension to the comic premise, developing beats of action, fleshing out comic characters and playing with end twists. In sessions, we maintain a supportive dynamic between students who collaborate to make one another’s material fresher and funnier, beat by beat. Check it out!
The PIT Announces its 2008 Summer Intensives! We are offering a 4-week Improv Intensive for Adults, a 3-week Sketch Writing Intensive for Adults, and a 2-week Improv Intensive for Teens! Click here for more information.
PITizen and Artistic Director of innovative theater company Waterwell Arian Moayed is nominated for a Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play) for his work in Masked. Arian joins Waterwell co-founder Tom Ridgely, PIT improv instructor, who received a Drama Desk nomination last year for his direction of Marco Millions (based on lies).
As part of a new Talent Diversity Initiative, NBC is partnering with The PIT to offer full scholarships to diverse students with strong performance skills to study the craft of improvisation. NBC and The PIT will each sponsor one student for the entire year long program, from Level 1 through Level 5. Applications will be accepted through August 1,2008. Find out how to apply!
Hilarious PITizens Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler have been awarded the prestigious Barry Award at the 2008 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The award recognizes the festival's top show, and this year, for the first time ever in the festival's history, the award was granted to two shows, Schaal and Braunohler (for As You Have Probably Never Seen Her Before) and British ventriloquist Nina Conti (for Complete and Utter Conti). Read more. Congratulations, Kristen and Kurt! And watch their live performance in front of 6,000 people at the Festival Gala, shown on television all across Australi!
More exciting news about Cooties, the hit video from James Murray's Viral Videos Class at The PIT. Cooties is now the official winner of Yahoo! Video's contest for the Best Comedy Video of 2007. The video has also been licensed to Comedy Central (watch for it to air soon), has received well over a million hits on YouTube alone, and has been featured on WB Channel 11 News! Click here to see the video everyone's talking about, and click here to register for The PIT's next Viral Videos Class with James Murray!
Kevin Scott and Matt Oberg's hot new web show, TMI, was featured in this week's Entertainment Weekly, who named the series the "Web Obsession of the Week." The series also features PIT House Team Big Black Car. Watch the TMI videos here!
Floaters, the web sitcom from PITizen Jamie Cummings, has won the NY Emmy for Advanced Media: Writer/Producer! Cummings has served as writer, actor and director on the series. See the full list of the winners and watch an episode written by Jamie.
PIT darlings The Apple Sisters are absolutely everywhere! Talking about everything from their writing process to their lovably demented characters, The Apple Sisters grace the pages of the NY Press and the Staten Island Advance.
The PIT offers unparalleled perks for students:
YouTube page, Interview about the PIT with Scene Interactive, and Online Reel & Resume
