Go Comedy! Improv Theatre Announces Their Summer Schedule

With just six months under its belt, Go Comedy! Improv Theatre has proven that it has what it takes to keep Detroiters laughing. The 80-seat cabaret theatre & bar in a former Secretary of State building in Ferndale garnered the title of Detroit's Best Comedy Club for 2009 by both Metro Times and Real Detroit.

Go Comedy! Improv Theater
is the brainchild of Pj Jacokes (Ferndale), Chris DiAngelo (Ferndale), Tommy LeRoy (Ferndale) and Gerald Knight (Ann Arbor). While Go Comedy! is the first business venture for this comedy quartet, Jacokes, LeRoy and DiAngelo have spent the past ten years collectively working in various capacities for The Second City (Detroit, Cleveland and Chicago), The Planet Ant, The Improv Inferno, The Purple Rose, Meadowbrook Theatre, The Furniture Factory, The University of Michigan's CRLT Players, and Totally Unrehearsed Theater at The Comedy Castle, among others. Knight, the president and majority partner, is a retired high school teacher, currently co-owner of Heat Controller, Inc and President of Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation.

Friday & Saturdays

The Go Comedy! All Star Showdown

Dark Matter
Anchoring the theaters' weekly schedule is the Go Comedy! All Star Showdown, which runs Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00pm and 10:00pm. In the All Star Showdown, two teams of Detroit's best improvisers go head to head in an improv competition tailored to challenge their abilities, think on their feet, and give audiences a roaring good time. The cast also plays for audience members who take home fabulous prizes when their team wins. It's a night of hilarious laughs and great times at the Go Comedy! All Star Showdown.

After the 10:00pm shows on Friday & Saturdays, the cast of the All Star Showdown, returns to the stage for the no-holds-barred improv show, Dark Matter, where the game show format is gone and the stage is completely open for suggestions.

Tickets for the Go Comedy! All Star Showdown are $15.
Tickets for Dark Matter are $5
(Free with a ticket to the Go Comedy! All Star Showdown.)
Tickets are available by calling (248) 327-0575 or in person at 7:00pm Wednesday - Sunday.

Wednesdays

The Golden Hour featuring Generation Gap & the Go Comedy! Launch Box

Proving Grounds

Fresh Sauce: The Open Improv Jam

Wednesday nights at Go Comedy! are a showcase for Detroit's Improv artists. The night kicks off at 8:00pm with The Golden Hour featuring Generation Gap and the Go Comedy! Launch Box. Generation Gap brings multiple generations of improvisers together to improvise across the troupes' various age gaps. They're followed by the Go Comedy! Launch Box, Go Comedy's own team of up & coming improvisers.

At 9:00pm, Go Comedy! presents The Proving Grounds, an opportunity for three local improv troupes to prove their stuff. Participating troupes present a variety of performances from basic improvised games to new and experimental material. The line-up of troupes will be posted at the theatre and on the Go Comedy! website at www.gocomedy.net. Interested troupes should contact Chris DiAngelo at chris@gocomedy.net for an open spot on the Wednesday night line up.

Wednesday evenings conclude with the exciting show, Fresh Sauce: The Open Improv Jam hosted by Pete Jacokes. Fresh Sauce gives anyone the opportunity to step up and improvise with the pros. Sign ups are available immediately following the 9:00pm show.

Tickets for Wednesday nights are $5 for the evening.
Tickets are available by calling (248) 327-0575 or in person at 7:00pm Wednesday - Sunday.

Thursdays

Sketch Comedy Night at Go Comedy!

Travel Earth Timeshares

Love and Other Urban Legends

Silent

Thursday nights at Go Comedy! feature original sketch comedies written by the Go Comedy! cast or by talented improvisers from around Detroit and across the country. . In July, the Thursday night line-up will feature the following shows.

8:00 PM - Travel Earth Timeshares a new comedy about time share salesmen by Go Comedy! resident cast member Garrett Fuller, and Detroit improviser Jeremy Conn, both of Garden City.

9:00 PM - Love and Other Urban Legends, a revue-style comedy that tackles how dating, love and relationships affect our lives in the funniest of ways. The show has been written through improvisation by Go Comedy! resident cast members Anne Faba (Clinton Township) and Suzan Gouine (Ferndale) with Marke Sobolewski (Allen Park), and direction by Tommy LeRoy & Michelle LeRoy (Ferndale).

10:00 PM - Silent, an original one-man show by Go Comedy! resident stage manager Peter Jacokes (Ferndale).

Tickets for Thursday nights are $10 for the evening.
Tickets are available by calling (248) 327-0575 or in person at 7:00pm Wednesday - Sunday.

Sundays
Sunday nights at Go Comedy! feature three original shows that highlight our talented casts as well as local artists, musicians, comedians, and community leaders.

8:00pm - Soapbox Derby, an improvised show featuring local musicians, comedians and community leaders. Each week's special guest presents stories, comic routines, or songs which the Go Comedy! cast uses to create on-the-spot scenes. Past Soapbox Derby guests have included Ferndale Mayor Craig Covey, WDET radio host Craig Fahle, Between The Lines publisher Jan Stevenson, and 97.1 FM The Ticket's Terry Foster.

Upcoming guests for Soapbox Derby include:
Sunday, June 28: Marc Meyers, winner of Stagecrafters' Battle for the Mic contest
Sunday, July 19: Detroit area band, Mahoney www.mahoneyband.com
Go Comedy!
is looking for community & business leaders, bands, musicians, and artists who have great stories to tell to appear as Soapbox Derby guests. Please contact Pj Jacokes at pj@gocomedy.net for more information.

9:00pm - Rock-o-Matic, the fully improvised rock opera that takes the Go Comedy! stage by storm every Sunday night. Using only audience suggestions, the cast creates an on-the-spot musical comedy accompanied by a live band featuring Mikey Brown (Ferndale), and Ryan Parmenter (Plymouth) with Matt Naas (Ferndale), Pj Jacokes (Ferndale), and Jaime Moyer (Hamtramck).

10:00pm - Elemenopy an improvised show featuring the improv power-duo, Go Comedy! co-founders and producers Pj Jacokes and Chris DiAngelo.

Sunday Tickets are $5 per show or $10 for the evening.
Tickets are available by calling (248) 327-0575 or in person at 7:00pm Wednesday - Sunday.

Go Comedy! Improv Theater
is located at 261 East Nine Mile Rd in the building formerly occupied by the Ferndale Secretary of State office. A shining new addition to downtown Ferndale, Go Comedy! offers the finest in improv and sketch comedy, a training center, road shows, classes and workshops for private parties, corporations and schools. For more information, call (248) 327-0575; visit our website at www.gocomedy.net or e-mail Producer, Pj Jacokes directly at pj@gocomedy.net.

 

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