The 8th Annual 24 Hour Comedy Marathon

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-Saturday, April 6th @ 8PM-

until

-Sunday, April 7th @ 8PM-

Liquid Fun’s 8th annual marathon to benefit the GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK returns for another year!

Featuring groups from ImprovAsylum, ImprovBoston, over 8 local colleges and two high schools, plus LIQUID FUN!
Win prizes! The longer you stay, the better your prize!

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WHERE, WHEN, HOW MUCH?

DIRECTIONS

GROUPS

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THEMED HOURS
 HERE, WHEN, HOW MUCH? !

Where: BU Central – 775 Commonwealth Ave (Basement), Boston, MA, 02215
When: 7 PM on Friday, March 23rd to 7 PM on Saturday, March 24th
How Much: $5suggested donation for BU students and LF alum. $5 required donations for the public. Buy tickets now!

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ON the T train:
Take the GREEN LINE B (Boston College) to the BU Central stop.
ON the MBTA bus:
47 (Broadway Station via B.U. Medical Center) to Mountfort St @ Lenox St then walk north to Commonwealth Ave. and turn right, walking east.
47 (Central Square, Cambridge via Longwood & B.U. Medical Center) to Commonwealth Ave @ University Rd, then walk east along Commonwealth Ave.
57 (Watertown Yard via Brighton) to Commonwealth Ave @ University Rd.
57 (Kenmore Station via Brighton) to Commonwealth Ave @ St Marys St, then cross Commonwealth Ave. and walk west.

DRIVING from GOVERNMENT CENTER:

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DRIVING from IMPROVBOSTON:

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SCHEDULE !

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BABY GIRAFFES (ImprovBoston) is an all-female sketch group from Cambridge’s ImprovBoston theater. They are Caitlin Durante, Amy Frizzi, Annie Kozakiewicz and Ashley Sorrenduguy. The Baby Giraffes have had several successful Sketch CageMatch runs at ImprovBoston, as well as performing at the theater’s SketchHaus, and as a part of their Sketch All-Stars.  Aside from performing sketch together, members of The Baby Giraffes have performed improv, sketch, and stand up in Boston and New York City.
callbacksThe original six members of The Callbacks auditioned for another comedy group at Boston University in Fall 2009. They were called back, but were not asked to join the group. Countless inside jokes, meetings and an Excellence in Student Activities Award for New Student Organization of the Year later they here today. The avant-garde of comedy, the pinnacle of college humor, The Callbacks.
First Impact is a fully improvised theater group who create, before your very eyes, fully realized linear story arcs. Sometimes they’re funny, sometimes they’re sad. They’re generally wild and always entertaining, but like, that good kind, the kind you feel good about afterwards you know? Yeah you know.. They perform regularly at ImprovBoston on Friday nights at 7:30.

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ImprovBoston’s Face Off
The fastest, highest energy competitive improv show in Boston. New England’s best comedians battle for your laughter and applause in a comedic duel to the death. Two teams enter: one tastes the sweet nectar of victory and takes home the coveted Cheapest Trophy in the World (trademark pending); the other eats their dust in an agonizingly hilarious defeat. Face Off presents fast-paced competitive improv comedy, improv games, scenes and team challenges, offering you a night of glory, bragging rights, and most of all, fun. You be the judge. Literally.

Friends of Gertrude: Two black guys, an albino, a chick, and a jew walk into a bar in Boston. After sharing one whole beer, Friends of Gertrude is born. Their fun and fast-paced shows have been described as unpredictable, smart, and hilarious by audiences and critics alike. Through face melting and irreverent sketches, glorious song, and impromptu break-dancing, FoG brings to the table a fresh, fearless, and funny brand of comedy that takes aim at art, life, pop culture, your mom, and everything else in between. FoG has been voted “Boston’s Best Sketch Group” by the Boston Comedy Examiner, featured in the Boston Comedy Festival and Philly Sketchfest. FoG is Quentin James, Laura Burns. Zach Eisenstat, Sam Ike and Dennis Hurley.

Jimmy’s Travelling All-Stars: Jimmy’s Traveling All-Stars is a comedy group based at Emerson College. For over a decade, Jimmy’s Traveling All-Stars has been bringing laughs, tears, and moments of discomfort to Emerson’s comedy scene. Jimmy’s is sure to bring a smile to anyone’s face – if that anyone happens to be someone that thinks whatever we do is funny. Sometimes it gets offensive, but that’s not our fault. Well it is, but, just laugh and don’t think too hard about it.
ImprovAsylum’s Just Suspects: Just Suspects is a sketch/improv group formed in early 2012. They have performed improv in venues such as Improv Boston, the Somerville Theater, Davis Square Theater, Coolidge Corner Theater, Emerson University and Suffolk Universities Modern Theater. The Suspects can be seen weekly headlining Woodstock Wednesdays at the Hideout in Faneuil Hall. Beginning April 5th Just Suspects will be present their own sketch show midnights on Fridays at the Improv Asylum.

Improv Jones: Improv Jones specializes in unique home brewed long form and classic fan favorite short form. You can find Jones performing regularly at IB’s Studio 40, and with their youth group the Jones Juniors one Friday a month in Arlington.

Kitsch In Sync: With a wide age range and a variety of experience, Kitsch In Sync brings the funny with a mix of short form games and long form narrative that spans the generations. We also make one heck of a bread pudding muffin. We perform on the first Friday of every month at the Castlebar in Brighton.

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NU & Improv’d has been Northeastern University’s premiere college improv group for over 8 years. NU & Improv’d are the 2012 ImprovBoston College Comedy Beanpot champions.
The Peapod Squad: In 1997, a group of fun and adventurous individuals founded (The Seven Hills of Worcester! Which would later be called) the Peapod Squad at Clark University as a(n alternative theatrical outlet which turned into a) short-form improv group. Since then, the squad has embraced free-form, long-form and theater sports, and they have recently found themselves obsessed with a free-form-meets-short-form-games format that allows them to embrace their love for guessing games and musical improv. The squad currently consists of Alex Tennant (Ten Antz, ’13), Wyndham Maxwell (Chedda Man!, ’14), Tyler Rosati (Brosati, ’14), David Bertoldi (Teddy, ’15), Caraline Connor (Carafine, ’15), and Alex Hayes (Hayzer Beam, ’16).
Roadkill Buffet: We are Roadkill Buffet, MIT’s premier improv comedy troupe! We hold shows every month or so, which are free and a lot of fun! So come on over, sit back, and enjoy some fine dining for the mind.

Seriously Bent- We are Suffolk University’s improv troupe, specializing in both long- and short-form improvised comedy. Since we our establishment in 2000, we’ve dedicated ourselves to making you laugh harder than you’ve ever laughed before, and presenting the very best in comedy we made up just now.
Show and Tell: Show & Tell is 4-man  improv team performing an impromptu “day-in-the-life” form that heavily  involves the audience by interviewing people about their awkward high  school experiences. Come ready with your own uncomfortable stories or  sit back, relax and enjoy the schadenfreude!

 

Stroopwafel: Stroopwafel was founded by members of various Emerson comedy troupes on a study abroad trip to the Netherlands during the Spring 2009 semester. After five grueling weeks of performing short-form improv on the streets of Amsterdam, Stroopwafel finally amassed enough spare change for airfare back to the USA. Since then, Stroopwafel has been performing short-form both on campus and around the city of Boston.
Sweaty
The Sweaty Toothed Madmen: Short-form Improv! College Comedy Festival Champions from Gordon College!
Swomo
Swomo: A long-form improv troupe from Emerson College. We also do sketch, and write an original play every semester. We love free things! If you know of any free things, let us know. We’re probably hungover right now..
Tomily: Thomas Towell and Emily Holland are a two-person improv team from Cambridge, MA. On Saturday nights, they perform with Face Off at ImprovBoston.
What Up D’oh: What Up D’oh? is an improv/sketch comedy group based in Boston, MA. All of the members have
been trained at the Improv Asylum Training Center in the North End of Boston.Team members include Rob Anderson, Alex Kagy, Bill Connolly, Eric LaMonica,
Corey O’Rourke, Christian Roberts and Colin MacDonald (Sketch/Production).

WNBA: WNBA is a group of talented, long-form improvisers… who just happen to be all women.  They are not associated with the actual WNBA.  Please don’t ask them to scrimmage.

The Yellow Submarine Improv Troupe, founded some time ago at the prestigious/pretentious Boston Latin School, showcases some of the best improv in the entire high school. Made up of students from grades 8-12, they have performed both longform and shortform improv together for more than three years. One of them is actually thirty seven years old. Can you guess which?

THEMED HOURS !

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Alumni Hour (6:30 pm)
The grizzled and world-weary Funners of yore return to their alma mater to impart the wisdom of their years.
Jam Seshes (11 pm, 2am, 4pm, and 6pm)
Long form improv jams. Do what you want, just have fun with performers you don’t usually mingle with
Ammunition Round (3am)
Line up! In this round, groups of improvisers take turns doing line games such as sex with me, worlds worst, ect. to a crowd of audience members who have purchased ball pit balls to throw at jokes they don’t like or improvisers that just look “hittable”. All proceeds go to the Greater Boston Food Bank
DRAGprov (4:30am)
Don’t forget your high heels or false mustaches! Dragprov is an improv jam with short form and montages where the performers shake up their clothing choices and their scene partners while not mentioning their wardrobe. (Some clothes can be provided but its better to bring your own)
Lights Off (5:00am)
Also known as “The Bat”. Why not give some of our audience a chance to sleep by doing some improv in the dark? It’s an improv radio show.
Stand Up Hour (5:30am)
Want to try out a new joke? Or perhaps showcase your polished stuff? Jokes get a whole new twist at 5:30am. It’s an intimate time to do stand up sets or just tell a funny story. Just email how much time you would like
MusicalProv (6:30am)
Listed above as Musical Hour, this is a set of musical improv games. Email to perform in or to donate your instrumental talents too.
Bath Time! (7:00am)
Rise and shine! To wake up we bring out a wonderful marathon tradition called Sensory Deprivation. In this game we see two person scenes performed by 3 people. One person must have their head in a cooler of water the whole time, when someone can no longer breathe, they raise their hand, get tagged out by someone in the scene, and try it pick up where the scene left off as the character who they just subbed in for. Afterwards we’ll dry off with a game of clothes pins in which whenever people break, a host puts a clothes pin somewhere on their body. We’ll finish with a game of Best Day Ever. Bring a towel, no need to do anything you don’t want to do.
Half Time Show (Whose Line Tribute) (8am)
“You do improv? Like Whose Line is it Anyway?” At 8am we do! We’ll be honoring that wonderful show by playing games where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter.
Family Breakfast (9am)
Hungry? A long form jam much like a “living room” where a group of characters eat breakfast togerther and go in and out of scenes from their lives. The audience gets food too. The breakfast is donated by local businesses TBD.
Ammunition Round (3 am)
An instant audience favorite when introduced at Running On Empty 2011, Ammunition Hour at last allows the audience (YOU!) to avenge those groan-worthy one-liners and horrible puns. A donation of $1 to the Greater Boston Food Bank arms you with three plastic balls to pelt the Funners as we play our best/worst line-games like 185, Sex With Me, Dear Diary and Wingman (a Liquid Fun original!).
Newbie Hour
This year’s crop of green Funners show the vets what they’re made of. They just grow up so fast.