For those of you that couldn’t check it out, Rooftop Comedy, one of the sponsors of the College Improv Tournament, has posted videos and pictures of the West Coast Regional Finals that Second Nature participated in.  All the videos and pictures can be found at rooftopcomedy.com.  And don’t forget, we’ll be in Chicago on November 15 competing in the National Finals of the College Improv Tournament for a performance slot at the Chicago Improv Festival and The Aspen Comedy Festival.  For more info on the tournament, check out their website.

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Yesterday, Second Nature competed against five formidable opponents from ComedySportz LA, Loyola Marymount’s Laser Squad Bravo, The National Comedy Theatre San Diego, CalPoly’s Smile and Nod, and The Knights of Comedy from Chapman University to win the West coast regional finals of the Chicago Improv Festival’s College Improv Tournament.

We made it through the first round as winners and won the final round by unanimous judges decision.  As the winners, we have earned ourselves a slot in the national competition in Chicago on Saturday, November 15, 2008.  We’ll be challenging improvisers from Illinois State University, Northwestern, and Suffolk University.  Winners of the national finals will be awarded a performance slot at the prestigious Chicago Improv Festival, as well as the Rooftop Comedy Festival.  For full info, visit the Tournament’s website here. You can also watch video of our performance at rooftopcomedy.com

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We’ve been invited to compete in this year’s College Comedy Competition, sponsored by ComedySportz.  We’ll going up ‘against’ old friends from Fracas!, including: CalPoly’s Smile and Nod, Chapman’s Knights of Comedy, and LMU’s Laser Squad Bravo, as well as ComedySportz La’s College Team and the National Comedy Theatre: San Diego’s College Team.  Winners of the competition will be invited to move on to the National Finals and a chance to perform at the Chicago Improv Festival.  Come check us out on Friday, October 25 at 4pm.  We’ll be performing at the Westside Eclectic in Santa Monica.

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We’ve decided to add a special format show in honor of the many parents travelling from around the world to visit us here at USC.  We’ll be doing a ‘Bat,’ an all in the dark improvised show. We’ll be meeting outside Ground Zero on Friday, October 10 at 10:42 pm and leading people to the special performance venue from there.  Leave your flashlights at home and come enjoy the show!  For all the info, check out our shows page.

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Second Nature’s own Dan Lippert will be performing in the USC School of Theatre production of the french farce, ‘A Flea in Her Ear’ this weekend.  The play opens Thursday, October 9 and runs through Sunday, October 12.  For more info and tickets, check out the School of Theatre website .

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We’ve announced our schedule for the Fall 2008 semester! We’ll be performing weekly at USC’s Ground Zero Performance Cafe.  We’re working on doing some new and interesting special format shows every month, along with old staples like the Facebook Show. For our entire schedule, check out our shows page.

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FIASCO! is a brand new improv group composed of Second Nature alumni:

• Jacqueline Gabardy
• Clay Larsen
• Tom McMillan
• Justin Michael
• Jacob Reed

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We’ve officially announced our lineup of guests for our three special shows at the San Francisco Improv Festival. Here’s the schedule:

Thursday, July 24
Midori
(Sexuality Columnist and Fetishism Expert)
www.planetmidori.com

Friday, July 25
Andrew Leland
(Managing editor of The Believer)
www.believermag.com

Saturday, July 26
Daniel Handler
(aka Lemony Snicket, author of “A Series of Unfortunate Events”)
www.lemonysnicket.com

All three guests are Bay Area natives, and we’re really excited for them to come out for these special shows.

All shows are at 8pm in the festival’s “Union Square Stage” at the San Francisco Playhouse.

So, if you or anyone you know is in the Bay Area, reserve tickets now by visiting:

www.sfimprovfestival.com

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