Crossword clues for improv
improv
- Specialty for many college acting groups
- Some Second City skits
- Some comedy
- Show where all you need to start it is one suggestion of anything, anything at all! Can you believe it? What a deal
- Second City staple
- Second City specialty
- Quick-thinking skill
- Off-the-cuff routine, for short
- Off-the-cuff bit
- Comedy style, for short
- Comedy style based on "yes, and"
- Ad-libbed comedy format, for short
- Ad-libbed comedy
- Ad-lib comedy style
- 53rd Street comedy club, informally
- 53rd Street comedy club (with ''The'')
- "Whose Line Is It Anyway" technique
- "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" style
- Off-the-cuff stuff
- Comedy specialty
- Unscripted comedy, informally
- Spontaneous skits
- Finish off better stand-up routine
- Finish off better stage technique
- Better cut the off-the-cuff humour
- Unprepared stuff the writer's both for and against
- Comedy genre
- Comedy club offering
- Stand-up routine
- Comedy style
- Ad-libbed bit
- Acting exercise
- Unscripted theater, briefly
- Unscripted comedy, for short
- Unpredictable comedy style
- Theater type where ad-libbing is encouraged
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1970 as colloquial shortening for improvisation. The New York City comedy club, founded in 1963, was, in full, The Improvisation.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context informal English) improvisation 2 a form of live entertainment characterized by improvisation and interaction with the audience
Wikipedia
Improv may refer to:
- Musical improvisation
- Improvisational theatre (includes improvisational comedy)
- The Improv, a chain of U.S. comedy clubs
- Lotus Improv, a spreadsheet program
- (Rarely) Improvisation, an act of spontaneous invention
Usage examples of "improv".
Two months earlier, the Workshop had opened in the hip Montrose section of Houston as an improv theater, but they had recently decided to try out stand-up comedy on Mondays and Tuesdays, their "off" nights.
He got stage time in Manhattan right away, at Caroline's at the Seaport and the original Improv, and he was writing constantly.
Meanwhile, a bunch of comics from the Improv had rushed over when they got word that Hicks was on fire at the Firm and they were lining the back wall of the club.
Bill couldn't believe his eyes when he walked into the Improv and saw Credico doing his real material: radical political satire.
Bruce Hills scribbled in his notebook as he sat at the Irvine Improv in a strip mall outside Los Angeles in November 1990, watching Bill pace the stage.
The warm-up show the night before at the Brea Improv had been less stellar, but tonight Bill intended to go out strong.
Once InterActors really got into improv to fit a good say-so, they tended to add in those possibilities the next time as if they were part of the hardline.
Perhaps life was like improv, becoming hardline when no one paid attention.
With anything I write, the first draft is basically a series of improv scenes building on one another.