Established troupes work together to create comedy without a script. See long-form improv from two different groups who know and love each other and creativity. Who knows what they'll come up with on the spot, but we know it will take all of them working together to do it!
The femme performers of Big Couch are spreading joy through imaginative improv comedy! They'll take the stage without a script and create everything from nothing. You'll discover their worlds and characters as they do. Experience the singular creativity of improvised comedy elevated by talented femme performers at 1045 Desire Street. Tickets available here or at...
Improv comedy is difficult enough. Why would anyone make it more challenging? Because watching comedians trying to perform while eating progressively spicier hot sauce is hilarious. Spicy Bits is a unique hour-long comedy show featuring improvisers performing short-form games and eating food covered in hot sauce. As the show goes on, the games get harder,...
Newly trained and long-time improvisers combine to invent characters and worlds in the moment. It's a showcase show never seen before and never to be seen again. Tickets available here or at the door.
Join host Joe Tolpi and local comedians for a night of laughter and stories as part of a new monthly show. With a Little Feeling is storytelling and standup comedy featuring a different roster of local comedians talking / joking about how they are (or are not) coping in the world. It really is a...
This improvised comedy show takes inspiration from the awesome things that have happened to anyone that comes to the show. Got a job promotion? Cheers! Landed a new gig? Cheers! Kissed someone? Cheers! Got out of bed? Cheers! We’ll take whatever anyone wants to celebrate and improvise the ever-lovin’ heck out of it. Inspired by...
8 Comics! 3 Rounds! 1 Crown! Experience your favorite standup comics working together like you’ve never seen before, live and video sketch comedy, and the sweetest honey roast you’ve ever tasted! Save the date! Tickets coming soon! Produced by Jade and Daniel Brontè-Bullard, “At The Top: A Collaborative Comedy Competition” appears at the Big Couch...
The immersive, trivia, puzzle competition Detective Game Show returns with a new set of cases. This time, it’s up to YOU to SOLVE them! DGS takes live murder mystery to the next level where trivia meets escape room. Devised and hosted by the puzzle-making, storytelling minds of some of New Orleans most talented creatives, DGS...
Newly trained and long-time improvisers combine to invent characters and worlds in the moment. It's a showcase show never seen before and never to be seen again. Tickets available here or at the door.
Big Couch has asked some of its favorite improvisers to partner up in this unscripted comedy show. Two pairs will perform long-form improv comedy separately, and then mash-up for a double duo. It's two times the laughs for one night only.
Storytelling with a comedic edge Two performers will tell a series of short stories that define their lives. Featuring Mich Gonzalez & Erica Lang Hosted by Lee Glass
Your favorite New Orleans satirical podcast - WRYAT Public Radio - presents a live, interactive improvised "ceremony" honoring those things which we revere, sometimes unnecessarily. The Ritual combines elements of rites and exaltation with short-form games and long-form improv to create an entire induction celebration for a new member. It's got a vaguely veiled lovecraftian...
What if you could preserve a whole place in a time capsule and open it years later just as it was? This whole world would be full of people with extraordinary personalities inhabiting unique worlds and in their feels about what’s happening where they live. That’s what talented performers will explore in “Time Capsule” an...
A Comedy Show And Modeling Competition Rolled Into One Do You Have What It Takes Become The Next Supermodel Of The Comedy World? Join us for a night of laughter, fashion, and fierce competition as some of the city’s best comedians share their funniest jokes, But that’s not all! A few lucky audience members will...
Join us for a fun evening of improv comedy for the whole family! Sunday Funnies is an improv comedy show geared towards ages 8 and up. An amazingly friendly and talented group of improvisors trained in performing for kids and teens will present an interactive set of improv comedy games. They'll take your kids' imaginations...
This fully improvised showcase show will celebrate the hard work our students have put in over 8 weeks of class. Featuring Destinie Jones, Armando Leduc, Lili Daly, Kathryn Lanier, Tj Sebastian, Katy Maddox, and Je’Men Daniels. Following the students’ set, Anubis Improv faculty will perform.
A stacked stand-up show at Big Couch with host Lee Glass! Laugh at/with long sets from Laura Sanders, Geneva Joy, and Isaac Kozell. Headliner Laura Sanders has had a real bruiser of a 2023, you too? Come laugh in the face of missing teeth, grief, and everything in between. Laura is thrilled to have her...
The femme performers of Big Couch are spreading joy through imaginative improv comedy! They'll take the stage without a script and create everything from nothing. You'll discover their worlds and characters as they do. Experience the singular creativity of improvised comedy elevated by talented femme performers at 1045 Desire Street. Tickets available here or at...
Our musical cast leads the audience in a singalong with onscreen lyrics, then our improv cast creates an all-new narrative based on the hit songs!
A Comedy Show And Modeling Competition Rolled Into One Do You Have What It Takes Become The Next Supermodel Of The Comedy World? Join us for a night of laughter, fashion, and fierce competition as some of the city’s best comedians share their funniest jokes, But that’s not all! A few lucky audience members will...
Following its immensely successful Halloween sketch comedy show, Big Couch will deck its halls with holiday humor. Some of the funniest folks in New Orleans have combined creativity and joy for a ho ho ho ha ha ha night of live performances and videos. Don't miss your chance to get merry for one night only...
