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Free Comedy Jam for Improvisers

Big Couch 1045 Desire Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

Just because improv is unscripted, doesn’t mean you can’t practice it! We welcome improvisers of all levels to join us weekly to hone their improv skills, learn new ones, and connect with fun folks. An improv jam is an opportunity for anyone to perform and watch scenes. You can have an awesome time while developing...

Free

Improv Class: 201 – Crafting Characters

Big Couch 1045 Desire Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

When improvising, characters help filter ideas, emotions, and actions to move through a scene. This goes beyond looks or accents to motivation - their wants, needs, and perspectives. Characters in scenes build a unique world through their eyes, and this course will support you in utilizing traits, physicality, emotions, relationships, and specificity. Improv 201 is...

$200

Improv 501: Practicing Performance

Big Couch 1045 Desire Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

Getting comfortable with using your imagination in front of an audience is critical to improving your improv skills. This 8-week course combines coaching toward personal goals in developing a well-rounded approach to improvised comedy as well as performances to adapt to audiences and collaborate toward a complete set. Improv 501 is only open to those...

$200

Improv Class: 301 – Inside the Scene

Big Couch 1045 Desire Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

If you've ever wondered how improvisers make their performances look like they are scripted, then you'll want to take a deeper dive into scenework. From inside the scene, you can make choices that take you off in one direction or other choices to head off in another. This course will help you identify and play...

$200

Improv Class: 101 – Free Fundamentals

Big Couch 1045 Desire Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

We think improv is an awesome foundation for connecting with others and the world, and we want to share that with folks all over the New Orleans area. Just like a college course, Improv 101 provides the basic concepts of a subject so that you can build upon it. Your participation in this four-week session...

Free

Spicy Bits: Hot Sauce + Improv Comedy

Big Couch 1045 Desire Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

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,...

$10

Joie des Femmes Improv Comedy

Big Couch 1045 Desire Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

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...

$10
Event Series Free Comedy Jam for Improvisers

Free Comedy Jam for Improvisers

Big Couch 1045 Desire Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

Just because improv is unscripted, doesn’t mean you can’t practice it! We welcome improvisers of all levels to join us weekly to hone their improv skills, learn new ones, and connect with fun folks. An improv jam is an opportunity for anyone to perform and watch scenes. You can have an awesome time while developing...

Free

Cheers! An Improvised Comedy Celebration

Big Couch 1045 Desire Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

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...

$10

You’re Invited – An Improv Comedy Party

Big Couch 1045 Desire Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

Consider this your official invitation to "You're Invited," an improv comedy show by an all-female troupe that transforms each performance into an uproarious celebration. With boundless creativity and infectious energy, these talented comedians seamlessly blend humor and spontaneity, crafting a dynamic atmosphere reminiscent of an unforgettable party. The stage becomes a lively gathering where the...

$10

Double Duos: Improv Comedy in Pairs

Big Couch 1045 Desire Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

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.

$10

Instant Ensemble: Long-form Improv Comedy

Big Couch 1045 Desire Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

Instant Ensemble demonstrates the power of collaborative creativity through improv comedy. We'll gather 10 improvisers who may or may not have performed together, assign them as a team, and give them a stage for a show. What will happen? Who knows! But you won't want to miss it and the laughs you'll get from joining...

$10