When looking for something to spice up your weekend, ComedySportz Philly may be the best display of improv comedy in the city.
Set up in a “Whose Line is it Anyway?” type competition, two teams, The Philadelphia Fighting Amish and the New Jersey Turnpikes, battle to be the funniest team on stage. This show is completely interactive for the audience, as well as absolutely hilarious.
The first time you visit ComedySportz in The Playground at The Adrienne Theater, don’t be turned off by what you see. Their space is a traditional ‘black-box’ theater with a small stage and only four rows of chairs.
But once the show begins, you begin to realize that fancy props and classy sets are not important to the quality of this performance.
At the beginning of each show, you are welcomed by a referee who explains the rules of the game for the players and for the audience.
The audience plays a strong role in making sure that each game continues to run smoothly. Throughout the show, the audience is responsible for coming up with the content of the each game. Their suggestions are become the content of each game. The referee might ask for a favorite book or something within the trunk of your car, and the game begins.
Some audience members are even brought on-stage for take a stab at improv comedy for themselves, and others are called to be guest judges. The best suggestion of the night wins a complimentary ticket to come back to ComedySportz as well.
Another great aspect of this show is that it is completely family friendly, which is hard to find in a comedy show. The referee even pulls a flag for any questionable content or word choice. The content is humorous, but not dirty or crude, and is guaranteed to have the whole family laughing. It’s really a great option for some good, wholesome fun.
In a typical showing, the audience is greeted with a referee that goes over the rules and what you are going to see. After this short introduction, the two teams come running onto the stage, the Philadelphia Fight Amish and the New Jersey Turnpikes, and you are introduced to the two-team captions for the night.
Each game is completely different from the game prior. While some games involved singing or even rapping, others simply involved character development from the comedians.
If familiar with “Whose Line is it Anyway?” then you would remember some of the games played at ComedySportz. They do their own version of a dating show game but the game of Five Things is by far the best games they play in a night.
This game is played for the team that is falling behind in points to have a chance to catch up.
When the referee steps out to explain the rules of the game it sounds simple. The team sends one player out into the lobby and the audience shouts of five ideas for five different events. Then the game seems like a regular game of charades.
But the rules are much more complicated than that. After coming up with an initial event, the referee then changes the event into something more interesting.
For example, if giving the activity of playing chess, the referee would then ask what they are playing chess with or whom they are playing with, and changes the activity to something harder to guess.
To make it even more interesting, the team may not speak English during this game, only gibberish and use mime to portray the activity and they also cannot just do the activity, like regular charades, but need to give the guesser the tools to do the activity and get them to go through the motions of the activity.
From then the member will come back into the theater and the other members of the team will try and get them to guess the changed activity and a point is awarded for each right guess.
When watching a show such as this, the audience is always looking for something hilarious, as well as filled with energy. This is a completely high-energy show from start to finish. At no point do you see the players loose their characters or tire out on the stage. This is a complete package from start to finish.
The best part about ComedySportz is you can never see the same show twice. This is a show made up of complete improvised comedy, which means that nothing about the show is scripted or rehearsed. It is completely based on what thoughts or ideas fly into the players’ head at any given moment.
The players in this company are made up of both trained actors, as well as regular people who are simply funny individual. These people are well trained to make this show as comedic as possible.
ComedySportz also offers several options for them to come to you. They can be hired as entertainment for any event, as well as hold corporate team-building workshops for any type of office or place of business.
ComedySportz shows take place every Saturday at 7:30 pm and 10:00 pm, as well as special events such as a New Years Eve show, and tickets are regularly $15, but with a student discount of $12.When looking for something to spice up your weekend, ComedySportz Philadelphia may be the best display of improv comedy in the city.
Set up in a “Whose Line is it Anyway?” type competition, two teams, The Philadelphia Fighting Amish and the New Jersey Turnpikes, battle to be the funniest team on stage. This show is completely interactive for the audience, as well as absolutely hilarious.
The first time you visit ComedySportz in The Playground at The Adrienne Theater, don’t be turned off by what you see. Their space is a traditional ‘black-box’ theater with a small stage and only four rows of chairs.
But once the show begins, you begin to realize that fancy props and classy sets are not important to the quality of this performance.
At the beginning of each show, you are welcomed by a referee who explains the rules of the game for the players and for the audience.
The audience plays a strong role in making sure that each game continues to run smoothly. Throughout the show, the audience is responsible for coming up with the content of the each game. Their suggestions are become the content of each game. The referee might ask for a favorite book or something within the trunk of your car, and the game begins.
Some audience members are even brought on-stage for take a stab at improv comedy for themselves, and others are called to be guest judges. The best suggestion of the night wins a complimentary ticket to come back to ComedySportz as well.
Another great aspect of this show is that it is completely family friendly, which is hard to find in a comedy show. The referee even pulls a flag for any questionable content or word choice. The content is humorous, but not dirty or crude, and is guaranteed to have the whole family laughing. It’s really a great option for some good, wholesome fun.
In a typical showing, the audience is greeted with a referee that goes over the rules and what you are going to see. After this short introduction, the two teams come running onto the stage, the Philadelphia Fight Amish and the New Jersey Turnpikes, and you are introduced to the two-team captions for the night.
Each game is completely different from the game prior. While some games involved singing or even rapping, others simply involved character development from the comedians.
If familiar with “Whose Line is it Anyway?” then you would remember some of the games played at ComedySportz. They do their own version of a dating show game but the game of Five Things is by far the best games they play in a night.
This game is played for the team that is falling behind in points to have a chance to catch up.
When the referee steps out to explain the rules of the game it sounds simple. The team sends one player out into the lobby and the audience shouts of five ideas for five different events. Then the game seems like a regular game of charades.
But the rules are much more complicated than that. After coming up with an initial event, the referee then changes the event into something more interesting.
For example, if giving the activity of playing chess, the referee would then ask what they are playing chess with or whom they are playing with, and changes the activity to something harder to guess.
To make it even more interesting, the team may not speak English during this game, only gibberish and use mime to portray the activity and they also cannot just do the activity, like regular charades, but need to give the guesser the tools to do the activity and get them to go through the motions of the activity.
From then the member will come back into the theater and the other members of the team will try and get them to guess the changed activity and a point is awarded for each right guess.
When watching a show such as this, the audience is always looking for something hilarious, as well as filled with energy. This is a completely high-energy show from start to finish. At no point do you see the players loose their characters or tire out on the stage. This is a complete package from start to finish.
The best part about ComedySportz is you can never see the same show twice. This is a show made up of complete improvised comedy, which means that nothing about the show is scripted or rehearsed. It is completely based on what thoughts or ideas fly into the players’ head at any given moment.
The players in this company are made up of both trained actors, as well as regular people who are simply funny individual. These people are well trained to make this show as comedic as possible.
ComedySportz also offers several options for them to come to you. They can be hired as entertainment for any event, as well as hold corporate team-building workshops for any type of office or place of business.
ComedySportz shows take place every Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., as well as special events such as a New Years Eve show, and tickets are regularly $15, but with a student discount of $12. Tickets can be pre-ordered on their website or bought at the door.
