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New clean comedy club ComedySportz rocks the house
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The majority of comedy shows in the world today tend to be rather inappropriate for many audiences. Dirty and insulting jokes characterize those shows. ComedySportz, a chain of comedy clubs with 20 locations worldwide, just opened a new club in Boise at the Overland Edwards Spectrum Plaza. The new club prohibits dirty jokes, providing a clean, all-ages comedy show.
ComedySportz was started in 1984 in Milwaukee to provide an
alternative to dirty comedy.
The performances consist of many different mini-games
in which two teams (red and blue) compete for the audience’s laughter and approval.
The entire show is unrehearsed and improvisational, meaning that the performers make up their material as the show progresses, usually on the spot.
At the end of each mini-game, points are given to the winning team that best-performed the skit, based on audience approval. The team with the most points at the end of the show wins the competition.
The audience plays a major role in the competition since suggestions are taken directly from it and dictates the nature of certain parts of the mini-game. So generally as long as the audience offers clean (joke) suggestions, the performers will perform accordingly to give the audience good, clean fun.
If an audience member or a performer uses a dirty joke or suggestion, the referee will call a “brown bag foul” on them. If someone has a brown bag foul called on them, they must wear a brown paper bag on their head for the rest of that mini-game.
ComedySportz is similar to “Whose Line Is It Anyway,” an improvisational comedy television show hosted by Drew Carey. The reason Carey says on the show, “the points don’t matter,” is because the ultimate goal is comedy.
Many people who watch the show are familiar with ComedySportz, where the points do matter.
The performers have been practicing improvisational comedy for more than a year now, so now the audience will certainly receive its money’s worth when it attends a show. Also, every show is entirely different than the last because each audience comes up with its own suggestions.
The club is still putting together some final touches, but by January it plans to have everything complete and ready to go.
However, the club as it stands now looks great and provides the audience with good, clean laughter.
Admission is $10 per person to see the show, but the performers make it worth your while offering witty, on the spot humor.
This is certainly the type of comedy show you can go to with anybody and not feel awkward. Regular shows are Friday and Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.
Overall, ComedySportz offers comedy and forces laughter out of you. Laughter has always been a way to bring people together.
MATTHEW BOYLE
Culture Writer