Rare Bird Show Improv Comedy
General Info
Genre:
Improv / Improv / ImprovWebsite
rarebirdshow.comBio
We're an improv comedy group in Philly. We ask the audience for one suggestion and then we improvise scenes. It's kind of like improvised sketch comedy.Members
Matt Holmes,
Alexis Simpson,
Nathan EdmondsonInfluences
Latest Blog Entries
- Jun 16, 2009 6:12 PM Check out this event: Day of Improv in Scranton
- Jan 14, 2009 5:50 PM Mailing List - keep us in touch with you
- Jun 30, 2008 6:31 PM Watch our videos!
- Jun 6, 2008 12:58 PM What’s up with you?
- Oct 7, 2007 3:56 PM Nathan’s in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Music
Blurbs
About me:
Matt Holmes | Alexis Simpson | Nathan Edmondson
Entertaining your face so hard since 2003. We turn one word into a whole improv comedy show.
Notable performances include:
The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater's Del Close Marathon,
the Philly Fringe Festival, the Baltimore Improv Festival,
the Dirty South Improv Festival in Chapel Hill, NC,
the Philadelphia Improv Festival, the DC Comedyfest,
the Toronto International Improv Festival,
the Chicago Improv Festival performing at Second City Skybox,
and performances at
the Magnet Theater and the PIT in NYC, and WIT in DC.
"A realistic, down-to-earth show... that's totally off the wall
...and swarming with magic robots." ..
Who I'd like to meet:
sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wasteoids, dweebies, dickheadsDetails
- Status: Swinger
- Hometown: HILARIOUSville {Mountaintop PA, Franklin PA, Guam}
- Body type: 8' 11" / Some extra baggage
- Zodiac Sign: Cancer
- Occupation: IMPROV COMEDY
Interests
General
Improv, Comedy, Philly
AND JUSTICE!
and cake.Movies
Caddyshack, Blues Brothers, Animal House, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, This Is Spinal Tap, The Graduate, Amelie, Broken Wings, Go, Pulp Fiction, Office Space, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spaceballs, Shaun of the Dead, Billy Madison, Dirty Dancing, Blazing Saddles, The Big Lebowski, American Graffiti, Big, Overboard, Adventures in Babysitting, Back to School, The Shining, Back to the Future, Heathers, The Muppet Movie, Teen Wolf, The Jerk, A Clockwork Orange, They Live, The Princess Bride, The Wizard of Oz, Breakfast Club, Coming to America, Sixteen CandlesTelevision
Simpsons, South Park, Saturday Night Live - SNL, Upright Citizens Brigade - UCB, Kids in the Hall, The State, Monty Python's Flying Circus, SCTV, Mr. Show, Family Guy, Reno 911, Jackass, MAD TV, Wonder Showzen, STELLA, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Puppet Up, You Can't Do That On Television!, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Chapelle's Show, Get A Life, Thank God You're Here!, The Carol Burnett Show, MST3K - Mystery Science Theater 3000, Sifl and Olly, Adult Swim, In Living Color, Beavis and Butthead, Trigger Happy TV, The Whitest Kids You Know, Crank Yankers, Seinfeld, Strangers With Candy, The Ben Stiller Show, The Muppet Show, The Tracey Ullman Show, Laugh-In, Human Giant, King of the Hill, Futurama, Andy MilonakisBooks
Truth in Comedy, Impro, Something Wonderful Right Away, Directing Improv, Improvise, Jill Bernard's Small Cute Book of Improv, www.whiteninjacomics.com, www.creasedcomics.com, www.toothpastefordinner.com, www.pbfcomics.comHeroes
the Upright Citizens Brigade, the Lonely Island, Broken Lizard, Monty Python, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Compass Players, Second City, Del Close
Schools
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Haverford College
- Haverford, PA
- Graduated: 2003
- Student status: Alumni
- Clubs: The Throng
(improv and sketch comedy)
originally the Sketchy Players
1999 to 2003 -
Cabrini College
- Radnor, PA
- Graduated: 2002
- Student status: Alumni
- Major: Communications
- Clubs: On the Spot
(improv comedy)
originally Cavalier Attitudes
1998 to 2002 -
Oberlin College
- Oberlin, OH
- Graduated: 2002
- Student status: Alumni
- Major: English / Theatre
- Minor: Film
1998 to 2002