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Fracas! Improv Festival
The Fracas! Improv Festival (commonly known as Fracas!) is a three-day (formerly a two-day) annual improvisational theatre festival held at The University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. The festival is hosted by Second Nature Improv, one of USC's improv troupes. In addition to performances, the festival hosts discussion panels with professional improvisers currently working in television, film, and/or theatre, as well as improv workshops. While the performances and panels are open to the public, workshops are available only to registered festival participants. History Fracas! I (2004) The first Fracas! Improv Festival was held on April 16 and 17, 2004, about a year and a half after Second Nature was formed. Noting the lack of attention given to college-aged improvisers at larger national festivals, founder and director of Second Nature, Nick Dazé, started Fracas! as a way to connect with other collegiate improv troupe Eight troupes attended the inaugura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fracas Improv Fourguys
Fracas may refer to: * Fracas! Improv Festival, an improvisational theater festival held at the University of Southern California * Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action Systems A failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action system (FRACAS) is a system, sometimes carried out using software, that provides a process for reporting, classifying, analyzing failures, and planning corrective actions in response to those fail ... * ''Fracas'' (video game), a 1980 Apple II video game by Stuart Smith {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ImprovOlympic
iO, or iO Chicago, (formerly known as "ImprovOlympic") is an improv theater and training center in central Chicago, with a former branch in Los Angeles, called iO West and in Raleigh, North Carolina called iO South. The theater taught and hosted performances of improvisational comedy. It was founded in 1981 by Del Close and Charna Halpern. The theater has many notable alumni, including Amy Poehler and Stephen Colbert. The theatre closed briefly in 2020, though the building was purchased in 2021 and reopened on November 3, 2022. Description iO concentrated on "long-form" improvisational structures, in contrast to the "short-form" or "improv game" format of Theatresports, ComedySportz or the television show '' Whose Line Is It Anyway?'' The iO's signature piece is the " Harold", and the theater featured other forms of improvisation, as well as sketch comedy and stand-up comedy. The building had four performance spaces: * The Del Close Theater - This was the second-largest of iO's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSCR (USC AM Radio Station)
, mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.12 billion (2021)As of June 30, 2021. , budget = $6.2 billion (2020–21) , president = Carol Folt , students = 49,318 (2021) , undergrad = 20,790 (2021) , postgrad = 28,528 (2021) , faculty = 4,706 (2021) , administrative_staff = 16,614 (2021) , city = , state = , country = United States , campus = Large City University Park campus, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Onion
''The Onion'' is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news. The company is based in Chicago but originated as a weekly print publication on August 29, 1988 in Madison, Wisconsin. ''The Onion'' began publishing online in early 1996. In 2007, they began publishing satirical news audio and video online as the '' Onion News Network''. In 2013, ''The Onion'' ceased publishing its print edition and launched Onion Labs, an advertising agency. ''The Onion''s articles cover current events, both real and fictional, parodying the tone and format of traditional news organizations with stories, editorials, and man-on-the-street interviews using a traditional news website layout and an editorial voice modeled after that of the Associated Press. The publication's humor often depends on presenting mundane, everyday events as newsworthy, surreal, or alarming, such as "Rotation Of Earth Plunges Entire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Boys
''My Boys'' is an American television sitcom that debuted on November 28, 2006, on TBS. The show deals with a sports columnist in Chicago, Illinois, played by Jordana Spiro, and the men in her life, including her brother and her best friend. The show was canceled by TBS on September 14, 2010 after four seasons. Overview PJ Franklin (Jordana Spiro) is a professional sportswriter looking for love within her world, which is dominated by her group of male friends. Her "boys" are her family, which sometimes hinders PJ's dating life, as the men she tries to date do not know how to react to her unconventional interests and the all-important men in her life. Her tomboyish, upfront approach to relationships tends to intimidate potential suitors, which leads her only female friend to advise her to dress and act more feminine. Being "one of the guys" can mean a lot of great things: poker games, pick-up softball games, watching sports or just hanging out at a favorite bar. But for PJ being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Bunin
Michael Louis Bunin (born January 14, 1970) is an American actor, known for playing the role of "Kenny" on the TBS sitcom ''My Boys''. He is a prolific commercial actor having starred in at least 50 national commercials. He has also guest starred on several hit TV shows including '' Scrubs'', '' C.S.I.'', ''Without a Trace'', '' Charmed'', ''Rules of Engagement'', ''Las Vegas''. He is mostly known for his recurring role as Jeff on '' Superstore''. Though born in Norfolk, VA, most of his youth and young adult life was spent in the Las Vegas Valley, where he attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada. The campus is about east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the University of Nevada from 1957 to 1969. It includes th ... and studied theater arts. His improvisational skills were honed with studies at The Second City Players Workshop in Chicago and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Second City
The Second City is an improvisational comedy enterprise and is the oldest ongoing improvisational theater troupe to be continually based in Chicago, with training programs and live theatres in Toronto and Los Angeles. The Second City Theatre opened on December 16, 1959, and has since become one of the most influential and prolific comedy theatres in the English-speaking world. In February 2021, ZMC, a private equity investment firm based in Manhattan, purchased the Second City. The Second City has produced television programs in both Canada and the United States, including '' SCTV'', ''Second City Presents'', and '' Next Comedy Legend''. Since its debut, The Second City has consistently been a starting point for many comedians, award-winning actors, directors, and others in show business, including Del Close, Alan Alda, Alan Arkin, Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, John Candy, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Chris Farley, Tim Meadows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MADtv
''Mad TV'' (stylized as ''MADtv'') is an American sketch comedy television series originally inspired by '' Mad'' magazine. In its initial run, it aired on Fox from 1995 to 2009. After a one-off reunion show in 2015 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the series, one more eight-episode season was produced and broadcast on The CW in 2016. Development William Gaines, who owned EC Comics and published the American humor magazine '' Mad'' from 1950 until his death in 1992, refused to sell the rights to the magazine as he despised television. In 1995, following Gaines's death three years prior, EC Comics sold the rights to ''Mad'' to Quincy Jones-David Salzman Entertainment (QDE), which was owned by record producer Quincy Jones and television producer David Salzman. Fax Bahr and Adam Small began working as staff writers on the sketch comedy television series ''In Living Color'' in 1992 after David Alan Grier informed Bahr that showrunner Keenen Ivory Wayans had fired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keegan-Michael Key
Keegan-Michael Key (born March 22, 1971) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He co-created and co-starred alongside Jordan Peele in Comedy Central's sketch series '' Key & Peele'' (2012–2015) and co-starred in USA Network's '' Playing House'' (2014–2017). He spent six seasons as a cast member on '' Mad TV'' (2004–2009) and has made guest appearances on the U.S. version of '' Whose Line is it Anyway?'' on The CW. He also appeared alongside Peele in the first season of the FX series ''Fargo'' in 2014, and had a recurring role on ''Parks and Recreation'' from 2013 to 2015. He hosted the U.S. version of ''The Planet's Funniest Animals'' on Animal Planet (2005–2008), and hosted '' Game On!'' on CBS in 2020. Key has had supporting roles in several films, including '' Horrible Bosses 2'' in (2014), '' Pitch Perfect 2'' (2015), '' Don't Think Twice'' (2016) and '' Dolemite Is My Name'' (2019). He has provided voice-work for '' The Lego Movie'' (2014), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Caeti
Frank Caeti (born August 11, 1973) is an American actor and comedian, known for his time as a cast member on the FOX sketch-series ''MADtv'' from 2005 to 2007. Caeti is also an alumnus of The Second City and Comedysportz in Chicago. Early life Caeti was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 11, 1973. He graduated from Standley Lake High School in Westminster, Colorado, and from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. He trained at The Second City Training Center in Chicago and eventually became a cast member on a stage there. Career Caeti joined the cast of ''MADtv'' during the eleventh season as a featured cast member along with Nicole Randall Johnson, and was moved up to repertory cast member in season twelve. His contract was not renewed before the start of the show's 13th season. Caeti has appeared in the films ''Bad Meat'', ''UP, Michigan'', '' The Lake House'' and '' Stranger than Fiction''; has done multiple television commercials, and has worked as a sports ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Office (U
''The Office'' is a mockumentary sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, first made in the United Kingdom, then Germany, and subsequently the United States. It has since been remade in ten other countries. The original series of '' The Office'' also starred Gervais as the boss and main character of the show. The two seasons were broadcast on BBC Two in 2001 and 2002, totalling 12 episodes, with two special episodes in 2003, and an extra short spectacular ten years later. A German version titled '' Stromberg'' ran for 46 episodes over five seasons, starting in 2004, and the follow-up film ''Stromberg - Der Film'' was released in German cinemas in 2014. The longest-running version of the series, the US adaptation, ran for nine seasons on the NBC Television Network from 2005 to 2013 for a total of 201 episodes. The total overall viewership is in the hundreds of millions worldwide. According to Nielsen Ratings as of April 2019, the US version of ''The Office'' was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melora Hardin
Melora Hardin (born June 29, 1967) is an American actress, known for her roles as Jan Levinson on NBC's '' The Office'' and Trudy Monk on USA Network's ''Monk'', and Tammy Cashman on Amazon Prime Video's '' Transparent'', for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Hardin starred as magazine editor-in-chief Jacqueline Carlyle on the Freeform comedy-drama '' The Bold Type'', which aired from June 2017 to June 2021. Early life Hardin was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of acting manager, coach, and retired actress Diane (née Hill) and actor Jerry Hardin. She is the sister of former Flock CEO Shawn Hardin. She moved to San Francisco, California at age five and later attended middle and high school in the San Fernando Valley at Patrick Henry Junior High School and Ulysses S. Grant High School, respectively. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. Career 1976–1999 Hardin started her acting career as the young star of the television series ''Thunder'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
