Improv is Dead

Support the pod and join our Patreon for bonus scenes, our entire backlog, and even more premium content! Just easing into Improv is Dead? Check out our Starter Platter and Best of Playlists on Spotify! Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠ , ⁠Tim Lyons⁠ It's Tuesday and what a fun way to start off the day than with our pals Keller Paulson and Kelly Foy of The Tuesday Goodies!? You can see them perform every Tues...

The last of our in person LA recordings and this one is with our very good friends and long time prov buddies Clare Ruddy and Shand Thomas! We chat'n'prov about our emotions, ham plates, sandwiches and more! Support the pod and join our Patreon for bonus scenes, our entire backlog, and even more premium content! Just easing into Improv is Dead? Check out our Starter Platter and Best of Playlists o...

Support the pod and join out Patreon for bonus scenes, our entire backlog, and even more premium content! Trevor Haaker and Will Stiles , A couple of the Mud City boys, stop by the pod for a little chat'n'prov about liminal spaces, low level judges, and alien invasions! We're doing Mud City on June 6th and you can get your tickets now! Mud City Improv Festival is a Chicago-based improv festival th...

Support the pod and join our patreon for bonus eps, back log eps, and exclusive premium content! Dan Lippert is in the house alongside LA's very own and pod favorite Caroline Cotter! We chat'n'prov about the 13th Warrior, call in radio shows, getting stuck in the bathroom, and blood girls. We've got a LIVE show this Saturday night at LSI and its only $5! Listen to ManDog Pod for more Lippert goodn...

Support the pod and join out Patreon for bonus scenes, our entire backlog, and even more premium content! *WORM HOLE OPENS* GAHH! Finally, after a full year of kicking around the prov-verses, we're back as Improv is Dead. This is no joke! While it is related to April Fools, because of the April Fools paradox, we really are Improv is Dead, the REAL audibly enhanced improv podcast. We sent those FUD...

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Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! Mark Ratterman pops by the pod again for some chat'n'prov about getting our cards read, running for fun, and new hip haircuts. Check out Marks pod with Cook County Social Club "Get it to Dutch: A Screen Writers Journey Sign up for Marks Cook County Workshop at iO Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠...

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! Elim Almedom and Daniela Aguilar are Women of a Certain age every Thursday night at LSI in Chicago. They pop by the pod to chat'n'prov about being fashionably late, making yourself at home, and a club for bad dreams. Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠ , ⁠Tim Lyons⁠ Sound Design by Nick

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! Our guest today is a producer and performer on one of the hottest shows in Chicago, the consistently SOLD OUT Friday show at LSI ft. Holy Goat. Not only is she a hilarious improviser, she’s also an incredible illustrator who’s done work with The Chicago Bulls, White Sox, Bears and more! You...

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! The fellas get into talking Blink 182, how much life is left and what we want to do with it. It sounds deeper than we get unfortunately. Sound Design by Nick Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠ , ⁠Tim Lyons⁠ , and Dan White

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! Lauren Frost is back to get her prov on! Lauren does shows all over Chicago including the famous Wednesday night free show at iO with Birdlady and Dumb John. She also co-hosts one of the hottest spots to get your indie team up to play at Open Stage Thursdays at The Western Bar and Kitchen. S...

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! This week we've got two folks making their pod debuts in a big way! Grace Goze Grace is a self proclaimed improv pervert and alumna of The Second City’s 2024 Victor Wong Fellowship. She performs weekly with High Stakes Productions and currently her Harold team and first all-POC house team at...

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! Our guest today is hitting his record 6 time appearance on the pod which means we get him roughly once a year and even that blows my mind. You’ve seen him in countless Film and TV projects from The Great and Powerful OZ to Get Hard. He’s one half of an iconic improv duo you can show to you p...

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! This week we FUDGE out to chat'n'prov about Tim's foot health, Dan's VR obsession and Damian being Mandela effected by Avatar. Minnesota Ways to Help Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠ , ⁠Tim Lyons⁠ , and ⁠Dan White⁠ Sound Design by Nick

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! The Minneapolis Edit Ways to Help Stand with Minnesota A Minnesota Built, constantly updated resource hub connecting you with mutual aid, funds, legal supports, food assistance, rent help. and volunteer opportunities, MN NOICE Statewide directory of organizations that support immigrants and...

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! If you’re a true improv pervert you’ve seen this episodes guests perform in every out house, pent house, hen house and dog house around the country. You’ve seen their work in TV and Film from Southside, and Work in Progress to SHRINK and Trial of the Chicago 7. They’ve produced countless liv...

Improv is Dead is an immersive comedy podcast hosted by Damian Anaya, Tim Lyons, and Dan White. Every week we chat 'n prov, then apply some slick post-production effects, to create a totally unique audial comedy show where all of their biggest comedy perversions freely penetrate your gentle, delicate ears.

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! It's our annual NYE Spooktacular where we grab a bunch of scenes that really made us chuckle hard from 2025 and slap them all into one neat little back to back package for you to consume and enjoy! Thanks to Nick McMillin for putting this together and to all the improv perverts who sent us t...

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! All the boys are back home for the holidays! Dan White returns for our Holiday spooktacular where we talk about the gifts we would've given had we actually bought each other gifts and then we prov it out one last time for 2025! It gets grinchy! Sound Design by Nick McMillin Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Da...

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! This week on the pod we have the return of good friend Kyle Bethea and making his pod debut, local Chicago improv titan Bill Arnett joins us to chat'n'prov about your first sip of beer, alpha dogs, Hannibalesque bears and more! Listen to Bill on his own podcast MPZ Listening Party Follow 3 A...

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! This week on the pod we have the fantastically funny duo of Dina Facklis and Abby McEnany to chat'n'prov about bad hair cuts, costume parties, and more! Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠ , ⁠Tim Lyons

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! This week on the pod we welcome back Andrew Lemna and Devin Henderson to chat'n'prov about Black Friday deals, Friendsgivings, and giving the perfect gift to your nieces and nephews that won't drive your siblings insane. Sound Design by Nick McMillin Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠ , ⁠Tim Lyons...

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! We're taking the week off from the main feed for the holiday, but wanted to give a little episode to gobble up! If you're not on the Patreon, this was one of our most recent bonus episodes with our friends Lauren Frost and Erin Washington! Follow Erin and Lauren as Lerin on socials for live...

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! This week on the pod we do a little holiday chat'n'prov with two of the best and Mandog Pod hosts Dan Lippert and Ryan Rosenberg! We talkin' buffet's, frying turkeys, and more! Listen to Dan and Ryan on their podcast Mandog Pod! See them perform live as Big Grande at UCB! Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Dami...

Support the pod and ⁠join our Patreon ⁠ for bonus scenes, back log episodes, and exclusive premium content! This week we're chat'n'provin with 2/4's of Chicago's Dumb John Mike Geraghty and Linda Orr! We get into it about first jobs, fartin' on the pepperoni, and impossible word problems. Check out Mike and Linda at iO Chicago every Wednesday night for the free show! Hosts: Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠ ,...