Spontaneous laughter for improvised gags
STAND-UP comedy is full of tired comedians rehashing the same show, with little room for off-the-cuff humour, save occasional banter with a heckler. Improvised comedy is a welcome antidote. It’s an hour of comedians performing on their wits, hatching gags, sketches and storylines on the fly, with suggestions from the audience. The Stephen Frost Improv Allstars, who are back at Electric Picnic this weekend, are among the best improv comedians.
“We travel the world. We go to China, to Hong Kong, New York, to Ireland, and journalists always ask who we get the craziest suggestions from. I’m not telling you a lie: it’s the Irish,” says Frost. “They always throw the Brits, especially, in the show. You have a fantastic, weird sense of humour. Especially when we go to the Róisín Dubh in Galway, we get really strange stuff.
