Brian Stack (most recently a writer for Conan) shot this interview with Del Close in 1986.

Jesse Thorn of The Sound of Young America says:

When [Brian Stack] was 19, he was an intern at a public access station, and he made this video report. The subject is Del Close, with whom Stack had just started his first class at the Improv Olympic. [...] The video is in black and white, because Brian accidentally set the camera to "monitor" mode, but it's a totally amazing time capsule and about 10 minutes of wisdom from the greatest guru of improvisation.

In included footage of performances caught glimpses of Dave Pasquesi and Mick Napier (with hair!).

(via Boing Boing)

Has it really been almost a year since I've updated this long-suffering site? Yes, it has. Thanks to everyone who keeps sending in their improv groups to be listed, despite the quiet here. And double thanks to people who let me know about defunct groups—the size of the list is well past the point where I can double-check each link every year or so (as I used to do in the early days) to see if groups are still active.

Here then are the groups I've just added to the United States, Canada, and World Improv Groups Pages:

• Acid Reflux Comedy Troupe (Batavia, IL)
• ActingOut (Keene, NH)
• The Amish Monkeys (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Attention Deficit Disorder (Los Angeles, CA)
• Blackout (Chicago, IL)
• Bring Your Own Improv (Providence, RI)
• Changing Jennifers (Adelaide, SA, Australia)
• Cheap Sox (Medford, MA)
• Choke Comedy Improv (Limerick, Ireland)
• Don't Break the Streak (Harrisburg, PA)
• Don't Mind Us (Saskatoon, SK)
• Fill in the Blank Improv (Sault Sainte Marie, MI)
• A Fish Called Improv (Brighton, UK)
• Gay/Straight Alliance (Minneapolis, MN)
• Got Jokes? (Tampa, FL)
• Guys In Ties (Rock Island, IL)
• HiJinks Improv Comedy (Salt Lake City, UT)
• Improfessioneel (The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)
• ImproNow (Willunga, SA, Australia)
• Improsant (Zurich, Switzerland)
• Improvável (Brazil)
• ImprovCity (Tustin, CA)
• The Improv Effect (Jacksonville, FL)
• Improvisaatioteatteri JOO (Jyväskylä, Finland)
• ImproZoo (Riga, Latvia)
• K.A.R.L. Improv (St. Louis, MO)
• Klancyk (Warsaw, Poland)
• Knights of Comedy (Los Angeles, CA)
• Kwik - Kameralna Wielka Improwizacja Kabaretowa (Wrocław, Poland)
• Locked Out Comedy (Dallas, TX)
• Mikomiko Improv (Honolulu, HI)
• No Drama Theatre Improvlova (Dublin, Ireland)
• Now Improv (Los Angeles, CA)
• OKC Improv (Oklahoma City, OK)
• The Ones Your Mother Warned You About (Oklahoma City, OK)
• Out of the Basement Improv (Denver, CO)
• Panda Smackdown (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
• Pitt Improvers (Bradford, PA)
• Portable Reality Show (Poulsbo, WA)
• Positively Funny, Inc. (Birmingham, AL)
• Rosa Parks Improv (Vancouver, BC)
• San Ramon Improv U (San Ramon, CA)
• The Scat Pack (London, UK)
• Search Engine Improv (Rochester, NY)
• See Spot Run (Columbus, OH)
• die Spielzeugen (Freiburg, Germany)
• Spontaneous Insanity (Perth, WA, Australia)
• Steel City Improv Theater (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Teater Liksom (Oslo, Norway)
• Teatro a Molla (Bologna, Italy)
• Tremebundo (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Twisted Gray Matter (San Ramon, CA)
• Unleashed! Improv (Rochester, NY)
• The Wait List (Los Angeles, CA)
• W Improv: Ultimate Improv in Toronto (Toronto, ON)

The Calgary Improv Brier: “Improv, Hurry, Hard!” will be March 12 and 13, 2010 in The Epcor Centre. There's an open invitation to improv teams to compete for a cash prize and the winner gets a showcase appearance in the Calgary International Improv Festival, September 30-October 3, 2010. If you'd like to submit a team, please email crhilton@shaw.ca.

USA

• Chaos Comedy (Phoenix, AZ)
  
• Fool Disclosure (Fort Collins, CO)
  
• FORK (Denver, CO)
  
• The Box Performance Space (Albuquerque, NM)
  
• Convoy (Los Angeles, CA)
  
• SkyPunch! (Newport, RI)
  
• Sea Tea Improv (Hartford, CT)
  
• USS Rock N Roll (Los Angeles, CA)
  
• Caca Happens! (Croton on Hudson, NY)
  
• ComedySportz Sacramento (Sacramento, CA)
  
• Cult of the Stage Monkey (Lafayette, LA)
  
• Friends of the Museum (New York, NY)
  
• Rhonda (New York, NY)
  
• Helicopter Dance Off (Long Branch, NJ)
  
• ICU - Improv Comedy Underground (Mobile, AL)
  
• The Improv Society (San Francisco, CA)
  
• Village Idiots Improv Comedy (Rochester, NY)
  
• Jonny Whiteboard (Los Angeles, CA)
  
• La Nuit Theater (New Orleans, LA)
  
• Laughter For A Change (Los Angeles, CA)
  
• Improv-Ka-Bob (Tustin, CA)
  
• One Night Stand: An Improvised Musical (Los Angeles, CA)
  
• Portland Playback Theatre (Portland, ME)
  
• Pull The String Productions (Columbus, OH)
  
• Spontaneous Combustion (San Francisco, CA)
  
• The Escapists (Portland, ME)
  
• The Gentleman (Phoenix, AZ)
  
• The Unmistakables (Mount Vernon, WA)
  
• Trapped In A Rumor (Concord, CA)
  
• Twinprov (Oklahoma City, OK)
  

Canada

• Dangerous Portion (Vancouver, BC)
  
• Montreal Improv (Montreal, QC)
  
• KCVImprov (Kingston, ON)
  

World

• W Goracej Wodzie Kompani (Gdansk, Poland)
  
• Belgische Improvisatie Liga (Vlaanderen, Belgium)
  
• The Improvements (Stockholm, Sweden)
  
• The Lunetics (Utrecht, Netherlands)
  
• Taichung Improv (Taichung City, Taiwan)
  
• Stupid Lovers (Bremen, Germany)
  
• The Party Quirks (Islamabad, Pakistan)
  
• The Improvisors (Wellington, New Zealand)
  
• TAP - Theater am Puls (Bern, Switzerland)
  

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