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The Improv

3.3 (32 reviews)
ModerateComedy Clubs, Bars
Closed 7:00 pm - 12:00 am (Next day)

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Moderate noise
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Aaron S.

Came here to see a show during my last trip to South Lake. The venue was alright, but nothing special. The staff was nice and helpful. One annoying thing, however, was that we were seating on the right side facing the stage, near the door. Throughout the show people, would leave the room to go use the bathroom outside, but the door would lock behind them so people locked out would just start knocking on the door. As you can imagine, that is distracting when you are trying to watch a comedy show. No staff member was stationed by the door to open it, so audience members kept getting up to let each person back in. Seems an easy fix would be to unlock the door, or keep someone staffed there throughout the show to make sure the door is opened when it needs to be. Other than that, it was nice that there was no drink requirement and the local comic who MC'ed was pretty funny. The headliners were good too, and change every few days, so I would check it out again next time I come to town...I would just sit far from the door.

Chris B.

WTF?! This was the worst comedy show that I have ever been to. The opening guy was ok, the second woman was horrible! We didn't laugh once. The headliner was just as bad and we walked out along with several other people

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I went to Improv last night and saw Gene Pompa, John Camponera and a great female MC. All three were fantastic, I hope they come back.

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Good fun on a Saturday night! A little tuff to get tickets during the day but worth the frustration.

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This was awful. The were no funny and they allowed a female in the audience to interject on early every joke and mess up the flow.

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It's a great show and Kathleen who works at the box office is the nicest and most helpful employee at Harveys!!

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