Improv Jones

Its tough to review improv because the cast and material are always changing. I remember seeing Improv Jones about 8 years ago and thought it was great. However, a recent show I went to was cringe-​worthy. Out of 4 performers it seemed like one completely lacked a sense of humor, another wanted to be the center of attention and would do anything to get there, one knew they were bombing, and the last girl was pretty funny. Due the nature of long form improv as opposed to the more common type of improv they got stuck with terrible audience suggestions that they had to use for an hour. Note to performers– next time an audience member suggests a character that has an obsession with clocktowers… keep asking for suggestions.
The performance was bad enough that my friends and I didn’t even feel like continuing our night afterwords. One of the exchanges between two of the performers lasted about 10 minutes and was so bad and lacking laughs that I almost felt bad for them. The girl in this particular scene about a mutual love of clocktowers knew that they were going down in flames. I must give the guy in that scene credit though, anyone who’s job it is to make people laugh who fails to do that even once during the course of an hour yet continues to get up in front of crowds deserve at least some praise for guts.