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Baltimore’s got a new improv comedy troupe (simply called Baltimore Improv Group) that performs sketches and games sorta like “Who’s Line Is It, Anyway?”. I checked out the February show and had an awesome time — it’s cool seeing these guys (actually girls mostly, with a few token dudes) thinking on their feet and working as a team.

Before each scene they go out and ask the audience for a suggestion that becomes part of the scene. The first part involved a man and a woman acting out an on-again, off-again relationship called “It’s Not Me It’s You” which was more like a dramatic play than comedy, but was still fun to watch all the directions they went in. The second part was straight-up comedy…the best scene we saw was a game called “Playbook”, where an audience member picked a play out of a pile of books. One person had to read all of her lines out of the book while everyone else had to justify the crazy things she was saying and put them in context. They also played a cool game called “Interrogation” where two “interrogators” had to convince a “criminal” that they were guilty of a nonsensical crime suggested by the audience while the guesser was out of the room. I guess it’s easier to understand if you actually see it, but trust me it was dope.

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