The Monday Night Mash Comedy Improv Night at Kick Butt Coffee does long form improvised pieces.

What is long form improv? Most people know short form improvisation, like the popular show "Whose Line Is It Anyway." Short form improv tends to have a game or gimmick associated with a 3-7 minute structured, improvised game. Suggestion are requested from the audience before each game.

Long form improvisation involves a group of anywhere between 2-10 people getting a single suggestion from the audience and exploring that suggestion through a series of connecting scenes, games, songs, and monologues that can last up to an hour. At no point do the improvisers stop to plan or discuss what is happening or what has happened. The product is usually a piece that has realism and comedy and takes the audience through a roller coaster of emotions and laughter until they find themselves cleverly at the beginning. With its overlapping storylines, the best way to describe it - it's like the popular show Seinfeld... ...but improvised.

There are many "forms" to long form improvisation. They all stress different techniques to explore the suggestion and process the scenes as they happen. Of them, we teach and perform the Expansion Tree, Armando, the Harold, the Deconstruction, the Movie, the Musical, the Bat, the Soupy, and Free Form.

Our Incubator team focuses on the basic expansion tree developed by One Group Mind. Our House team learns elements of the Deconstruction and a freer version of the Harold, developed by ImprovOlympic. Our Main Stage and Resident Teams explore more complex forms that few professionals have even heard of.

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