GCI celebrates its championing with roller skating!

HORIZONS skate park was our destination tonight as we took some well-deserved time off from the grueling tasks of improvising.

LIAM rolls like a mutha, y'all.
JOANNA glides into action.
PAUL -- farthest to the left -- gets into the groove with a conga line o'skaters! Just like the old days of disco and skate parties...when PAUL wasn't even alive!!!
MIKE and BRIAN tackle the air hockey table -- BRIAN triumphed!
TIM -- just before nearly falling! Again!
LIAM and BRIAN take a breather.

Thanks again to everyone that voted us best blog in Rochester, and runner-up in best theatrical performance! How did we celebrate? Well, re-read the title of this post!

You are viewing the best blog in Greater Rochester!!!

Oh my God! You must have just read in City Newspaper that this is the best blog in Greater Rochester and, being an internet-surfing citizen of Monroe county, you immediately raced to your computer and navigated your way here!

Welcome! This is the blog of Geva Comedy Improv, Rochester's finest in late-night comedy entertainment. On this blog you'll find:

-Photos from and announcements about our shows.

-Illustrations of futuristic athletic competitions.

-Photos of what the cast members of Geva Comedy Improv do when they're not living the life of fabulous super comedy all-stars at one of our delightfully rambunctious performances.

-Personal gripes and insight into the lives of people you normally would only see on stage.

-Messages from one Improvisor to another. Example: Tim, now that we have THE BEST BLOG IN GREATER ROCHESTER it might be time to make with some more pictures, punk. I would do it, but my computer sucks and you know this.

Who knows what else may get posted?! Visit us often! Remember, we are the most reliable source in western New York for monekys, pirates, and giant robots.

Thanks to City Magazine for this unmatchable honor, and thanks to all our fans who filled out a ballot on our behalf. This is a great week for democracy.
Another Democrat will soon be in city hall (DISCLAIMER: GCI has no political agenda though we did get a great picture with the mayor-elect a few months ago!) and not only have we been voted BEST BLOG but we were also the RUNNER-UP for BEST LOCAL THEATER PRODUCTION just behind A Chorus Line.

Thanks to all who voted!

-Nellis

FIASCO -- the LAKE BOAT season -- Starts Monday!

This Monday the 7th GEVA COMEDY IMPROV begins the regular season of FIASCO, their improvised soap opera!!! You'll see all the intrigue, mystery, deceit, passion, and fun of your fancy-pants t.v. "stories," but this time it's made up on the spot!

And the best part is, it's playing for five straight weeks of Mondays. Head out to the Ballroom in the Seymour Student Union at SUNY Brockport and join in the fun! Tickets are $2, $1 with student I.D. The show starts at 9:30 pm!!!

Thanks to Brockport's Student Government and the theatre club Harlequins for helping us put it together...see you Monday!

GCI shows you how to get rid of zombies at brian and mike's halloween party.

enjoying yourself? with a pint in your hand and a cricket bat at your side, the party's your oyster. bring on the board games and slightyly-tipsy revelrousness!
but what's this? ohhh, dear! one of the party's citizenry has decided that you, dear friend, are looking quite tastier than that bowl of alcohol-drenched gummi bears.
those of you less prepared -- say, those dressed as gnomes or yoda -- might fall prey to this creature of the night, this duke of hazard, this evil puppy. but with some quick thinking, and abstainment from the path of panic-strickenry, you can start to beat the shit out of the approaching zombie. remember: go for the head! it's where they're the weakest.
ahhh, raise the roof, indeed! you've destroyed the zombie, saved the party, and have won the praise of those less destructive than you! huzzah, good friend! huzzah! on to those gummi bears!

shots from kevin leas' camera!

We'd like to send a mad shout-out to Kevin Leas for these great photos of our Improvathon...he took over 1,000!!! More to come!

Friday Night Shot!

I know the Insider was at the show on Friday night. Here's a secret, advance sample!



ROCK!

Tales from the Improvathon!

It begins....

Oh so very, very soon!

What's awesome about the 25.5 hours of improv hilarity? Well, there is the original, Rochester-created formats that will be performed: Mookie & Brian's City Council, Johanna's Characterprov, Swithun's Happy Fun Kids Show, Brian's Britaprov, Paul's Nellis Presley and so very much more! There will be guest stars from University of Rochester's In Between the Lines truope coming down at 8 AM to play a little Micetro and trying to be crowned GRAND MICETRO CHAMPION in the spirit of former winners Shawnda Urie and Adam Litz! Let's not forgot the IN-CRED-IB-L-E DEBUT of LAKE BOAT, GCI's Improvised Soap Opera. Costumes + Entrance Music + a whole lot of sleep deprivation = WOW.

So, hopefully you heard about the show somehow. Perhaps it was on WBEE, Fickle, MIX 100.5, WBER, City Newspaper or on any number of other places. What matters is we want you there - starting tonight! Got some time tomorrow? HEAD ON DOWN. Need a haircut? We'll gladly do that too. Just ask for Beki and bring your own Sissors! ROCK ON.

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GCI gets in with MIX 100.5 fm.

GCI-ers will make radio history as they talk about The 25 1/2-hour Improvathon at MIX 100.5 fm Tuesday the 18th! Tune in as they get some time between 7:30 and 8:oo am!

Got your tickets yet? Well, get 'em at www.gevacomedyimprov.org!

We invite...YOU! To Season III!

BRIAN and friend-of-GCI ADAM invite you to enjoy the benefits of Geva Comedy Improv's Season III!

Get free tickets to the Improvathon!!!

Wanna get an all-day pass to GCI's 25 1/2-Hour Improvathon? Go to www.gevacomedyimprov.org and fill out a CREATE-A-CHARACTER sheet...we'll pick one lucky entrant to win all-show passes! It could be you! And if you stay the whole time? Then you get SEASON PASSES TO EVERY GEVA COMEDY IMPROV EVENT FOR SEASON III AT GEVA THEATRE CENTER!!!

GCI grabs some air time at WBER!

Hey -- to get the word out about our 25 1/2-hour improvathon, members of Team GCI will trek down to 90.5 fm WBER Friday, October 21st to talk up the Improvathon!

We'll be on from 7:05 am to 7:20 am, chatting with the likes of such luminaries at Joey Guisto and SGT Pepper. Tune in, y'all!

The Improvathon starts at 10:30 pm October 21st and goes all the way to the end of Saturday the 22nd! Go to www.gevacomedyimprov.org for all the details!

-tim

Geva Comedy Improv presents
The 25 1/2-hour Improvathon!
shows subject to change!

Go to www.gevacomedyimprov.org for tickets prices and purchasing

21-Oct
10:30 PM
Theatre Sports -- root for your fave, boo the judge! Two teams vie for improv supremacy as they take your suggestions and make improv mince meat out of each other!!!

22-Oct
12:30 AM
Improv Karaoke -- just like singing in your favorite bar, but…well, without the singing. Take the stage and improv with GCI!

2:00 AM
Nellis Presley -- Let GCI's Paul Nellis tell you the tales of his world tour and other adventures! Featuring live music from Nellis Presley!

4:00 AM
Campfire Improv -- Bring your strange and fantastically unexplainable personal stories to the Nextstage and discover the truth about what goes bump in the night through the magic of
improv!

6:00 AM
Micetro with U of R's In Between the Lines Improv troupe -- see the improv next-gen as U of R's troupe battles for individual improv supremacy!

8:00 AM
The Morning Musical -- what better way to keep the improvisors going than a rousing, heart-warming musical?

10:00 AM
Gorilla Theatre -- See the improvisors duke it out by directing each other in scenes of hilarity and genius! Give them a suggestion! Help them out! The winner gets the prize…to take home the coveted gorilla!!!

12:00 PM
Britaprov -- We've filtered all the minerals out and left only the delicious pure improv for your viewing pleasure. No sets, no preconceived characters, no rules! It's Britaprov!

2:00 PM
Swithun's Happy Fun Kids' Show -- This family-friendly, happy fun time show will teach you life lessons, how to play well with others, and you might even learn a thing or two!

4:00 PM
City Council Improv -- Got a problem? Take it to city council! See what happens when the citizens of Anywheresville air their grievances, and how the smallest change in the laws can create hilarious results!

6:00 PM
Joanna's Character Improv -- did you fill out your character sheets? See what happens when Team GCI takes your character suggestions and turns them into instipituously fantabulistic theatre!

8:00 PM
The pilot episode of Lake Boat -- Mystery…passion…deceit…the improvised soap opera FIASCO begins as the crew and passengers of this fast ferry take on dangerous waters and dangerous-er…uh, danger!

9:30 PM
pizza party!

10:30 PM
Theatre Sports -- Yeah, we've made it all the way!!! More hilarity as two more teams trump each other with scenes and games made up from audience suggestions!

Promoting the Improvathon at WBER!

Hey, radio junkies, Team GCI will be sending representatives down to 90.5 fm WBER Friday, October 21st. Tune in from 7:05 am to 7:20 am and hear live discussions and light chat about our most ambitious project yet, The 25 1/2-hour Improvathon!!!!

-tim

THE IMPROVATHON!!!

ghosties, ghoulies, and the improvathon.

Have you heard about our 25.5-hour improvathon? We're kicking off SEASON III with a day-and-a-skosh of improv antics! Details will be here when we get them, but get your coffee makers ready and get ready to see some exciting improv! Has this ever been done in Rochester's history? Not that we know of! Come see a Rochester first!!! Come see the 25.5 hour improvathon...maybe you'll see Sarah, the Geva Ghost at some point in the night...it is close to Halloween, you know!!! www.gevacomedyimprov.org for more deets!

paul nellis, also known as nellis presley.

rand. summer pics

Some funny pictures that Tim Goodwin took this Summer.



Paul Nellis' gift to Tim.


Mookie attacks!


The lovely couple embraces in a British sort of way.

no shame in the game.

You know, being a record store snob and all, I alll-ways have to remind myself: I'm only human. So I thought I'd take a moment from the constant exaltation of bands like Nine Inch Nails and The Decemberists and expose those albums that, come Hell or high water, I'll never, ever part with.

1_Phil Collins, NO JACKET REQUIRED. "Sussudio" and "Take Me Home?" Classics, my friend, classics. And the video for "Don't Lose My Number" was da bormb.
2_Janet Jackson, DESIGN OF A DECADE. I got this CD after not checking off the "don't-send-me-the-bmg-pick-of-the-month" box on my monthly bmg club thingy. So I got this, and then realized that Janet Jackson was the [scum bib] back in the day, but is nothing but [scum bib] now.
3_Extreme, EXTREME II: PORNOGRAFFITTI. If Nirvana and that whole Seattle-thing had never happened, then Nuno Bettencourt would no doubt have become the next Eddie Van Halen. But then again, after seeing what's happened to Eddie Van Halen, that might not be so savory a title.

-tim

available soon for your bumper.

Mass hysteria.

We're gonna be on the radio and television this Thursday the 22nd!!! Make your morning ten, eleven times better as Geva Comedy Improv invades 90.5 fm WBER from 6am - 7am, Channel 13 WHAM from 5am - 8am, and 100.5 fm The Mix from 5am - 8am as well! How can GCI be in THREE places at once? Well, tune in to find out!!!!

-tim

CITY COUNCIL IMPROV starts September 23rd!

We're building us a new improv format, and are getting it ready to show you out at Daily Perks coffee shop on September 23rd!!! Stay tuned right here for more details!!!

City Newspaper's BEST OF ROCHESTER!

You can now vote for the Best of Rochester in the current issue of City Newspaper. And you can even vote online here. If you could spare some love for your favorite improv troupe, for whatever category you deem fit (my personal fave is "best place to take a first date"), that'd be awesome. Help us conquer Rochester by being the best at something!!!

-tim

Pix from the Tournament!

ADAM, PAUL NELLIS, and TIM had a fantastic time down in Atlanta learning how improv is done at Dad's Garage's DESTROY ALL IMPROVISORS TOURNAMENT!!! Above you see Dad's Improv Guru TIM as he readies to take us to the airport after the traditional all-night post-tournament party! Teams from Austria, Toronto, Edmonton, L.A., Atlanta...it was a great time, and we have so many people to thank: TIM and everyone else at Dad's, all the improvisors who showed us so many things and taught us so much, ALISTER for showing us how to really play dodgeball...too many to name. We were very lucky to be invited, and hope to see evryone again some day. As for us? 6th place!!! We'll show off our proudly-taken trophy to you soon. Thanks again, Atlanta...next year? Look out, 5th place!!! Here's how the deal shook out:

6th Place -- Team Rochester, from Geva!!!

5th Place -- Dad's Garage, from Atlanta!!!

4th Place -- Team L.A.: Joseph of Acme Theatre (he's actually one of the founders of Dad's)

3rd Place -- Team Toronto, Iron Cobra!!!

2nd Place -- Team Edmonton, from Rapid Fire Theatre

1st Place -- Team Austria!

One-half of the Tournament's Championship team -- JACOB of TEAM AUSTRIA -- hangs with GCI after the last night of the tournament!!!

Here's ALISTER, offspring of Dad's Garage legends GEORGE and LIZ, who's also quite the master of dodgeball!!!

Here's your sixth-place finishers, TEAM ROCHESTER!!! DAN, TIM, PAUL NELLIS, and ADAM. Who's DAN, you might ask? A Dad's Garage fella who grew up in the Roc, making Greece-Olympia his high school home!

Does eBay sell second-hand proton packs?

Our friendly neighborhood psychic investigators have conclusive documentation of ghosts at Geva Theatre!

WARNING: not for the faint of heart!


Seeing ghosties while looking toward GCI's inner sanctum: the Nextstage green room!


The afterlife: regular or decaf?

And this is only part (20%) of the evidence...

Posts from the International Theatresports Tournament in Atanta Georgia.