Nice Show!

At "Nice Show!" John Dardenne improvises with his funniest friends. We're talking house teams, indie teams, special guests, & literal kids.
About this Event

JOHN DARDENNE improvises with house teams, improv rockstars, and FOUR ACTUAL KIDS this Friday!!!!

Special guests 5/22/26:

DEAN SHARPE (Curb Your Enthusiasm) One of the funniest, most genuine, and badass people on planet earth. Don’t miss this opportunity to see him improvise—it’s unforgettable!! Dean is a talented writer, actor, and improvisor who I’ve had the pleasure of performing sketch and improv with, and I can’t wait to see how Dean responds to the chaos that the kids bring to the stage!

S.O.F.T. (Quinn Boyes, David Donella, Kurt Maloney, Cara Myers, Vanessa Lynne Smith, Jess Uhler, Alli Wulfert, Tao Yang) aka Standing Ovation For Therapy is a UCB Harold Team featuring some of the best, hand-picked improvisors in Los Angeles. We’re talking vine-ripened, organic, non-GMO improv superstars assembled like Avengers to dazzle audiences with The Harold across the known universe. I welcome them to play with the four Tiny Titans of Improv.

DREAMWAVE (Erin Candela, Holly Celeste, Chad Fisher, Peat Hurst, Natalie Marceau, Matt Tice, Chloe Tuck) Known for their interactive and imaginative take on the mind-bending, Chicago-style form JTS Brown (originally directed by Craig Cackowski), Dreawmave is coming to Nice Show to melt our brains with a one-way ticket to improv Nirvana. I am so excited for them to share their unique style and form with four kids who barely understand the difference between long and short form improv!

GIN BELLY (Vince Yap, Luis Jimenez, Carlos Santos, John Dardenne) My OG improv indie crew!—all former UCB house team performers who are best known as “THE KINGS OF THE CLUBHOUSE.” We’ve been dormant for a minute and this will be the second time the group plays together in over a year! Literally anything can happen. These guys play like wild animals fixated on humiliating me and it's worth the cheap price of admission.

PLUS! (As always)

LINZY AND THE BOYS (Linzy Beltran (UCB Maude, UCB Betty alum), Sanjay Rao (Netflix's HIT MAN), David Danipour (UCB Harold), and John Dardenne (wrote TV jokes for Wanda Sykes, UCB Maude/UCB Mess Hall alum). This may be the best improv team no one's heard of because I just made up the name without consulting the rest of the group. I LOVE THIS GROUP because they’re my dear friends! We all met on a house team at The Pack and boy am I glad that happened. Come to the show and YOU WILL SEE WHY!

ANNNNND:

***LITERAL CHILDREN (I teach kids improv and have invited FOUR TINY TITANS to join me) (This is UNMISSABLE) Winona! Anna!! Milo!!! Advaith!!!! This is first so you gotta get there at 7pm if you wanna see the INCREDIBLE KIDS….

Whether you are a friend, enemy, or neutral observer this is a high-stakes opportunity to see John Dardenne succeed or fail. Be there.