Nice Show!

JOHN DARDENNE improvises with house teams, improv rockstars, and FOUR ACTUAL KIDS this Friday!!!! FIRST SHOW OF 2026

Special guests 1/23/26:

HOLY SHIT IMPROV (Mash-Up of L.A.’s finest improvisors!) Curated by Casey Feigh, Holy Shit started as a pandemic phenomenon and has established itself as one of the best live improv shows in L.A. with regular slots at UCB, The Elysian, and festivals around the country. Holy Shit features mash-up groups of the best comedy talent in LA. Fast, funny, silly, smart, and as consistently hilarious. A show so funny, it’ll have you screaming, “Holy Shit!” Featuring your favorite comedians from TV, Dropout, Comedy Bang Bang, Ben Schwartz and Friends, and more! We are soooo excited to play with Holy Shit and introduce them to the four Tiny Titans of improv.

ALL ABOARD (David Danipour, James Jelin, Toni Adeyemi, Jasmine Lewis, Sanjay Rao, Sarah Baggott, Andrew Sprogue, Ryan Hitchcock, Jessica Sproge ) An all-star improv team from The Shared Experience featuring long-time friends of mine and absolute stone-cold comedy killers. I know almost everyone on this team and I can’t wait to play with them! I think half the team has played a Nice Show! before, so look for them to show NO MERCY to the kids on stage. This is gonna be an epic set.

CHONK (Patrick Shen, Emily Jacob, Jocelyn Johnson, Faith Nagel, Richard Feliciano, David Neale, David Danipour, Koschka Barr, and John Dardenne) House Team at The Pack that I've been playing with (in different incarnations) since spring 2022!! This new version is CHONK-ier than ever before and so worth your time. Don't miss their unique brand of funny make-em-ups because in this show they meet the final bosses of L.A comedy: little frickin kids.

HOI POLLOI (Jesse Kruger, Cassie Grilley, Hanna Barlow, Joseph Elston, Russell Carter, DarylJim Diaz, Elyse Ruppert, Bennett Cohen, Jubilee White) House team at WGIS featuring some hilarious improv geniuses (you gotta be at the World’s Greatest Improv School)! I know some of them and they really make me laugh, and I can’t wait to meet the rest of the team and share with them the joy of improvising with not one, not two, not three, but FOUR CHILDREN with moderate SELF-CONTROL and above average improv TECHNIQUE. The stage is set for greatness!!

PLUS! (As always)

LINZY AND THE BOYS (Linzy Beltran (UCB Betty), 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!

***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.

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