Improv is Dead

Oh its another glorious episode of Improv is Dead featuring two hilarious Chicago based performers James Dugan and Paige Maney! We chat'n'prov about the perfect dating profile, accidentally sending that text, and scratching your body in the background of a loved ones zoom. There's also robots in this.

If you're local to Chicago or visiting:

See James as part of the Armando at iO Mondays at 7 pm

You can also catch him at Blueprint at iO Wednesdays at 10 pm

Check out Paige & James with Hitch*Cocktails Fridays at 9:30 at The Annoyance

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,https://www.instagram.com/lyonheart/⁠Tim Lyons⁠

We made it to our Halloween Spooktacular, simply our most anticipated episode of the year according to us! This year we are joined by our friends Lindsey Smith and Lawrence Collerd for a long discussion about where we all land on ghosts before getting into the scareprov featuring vampires, draculas, mediums, and more!

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Check out Lindsey with Real Angels!

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Just earsing into Improv is Dead? Check out our Starter Platter and Best of Playlists on Spotify!

Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠,https://www.instagram.com/lyonheart/⁠Tim Lyons⁠

We've got everyone's favorite Riddlemaster and Mandogger JPC and Dan Lippert on today's episode to talk Halloween candy hot takes, temp jobs, movie mice and more!

Listen to Hey Riddle Riddle and Mandog Pod wherever you get your pods!

Be sure to check out Big Grande if you're in Santa Monica!

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Just easing into Improv is Dead? Check out our Starter Platter and Best of Playlists on Spotify!

Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠,https://www.instagram.com/lyonheart/⁠Tim Lyons⁠

Long time friends and favorites Ariel and Lawrence are back on the pod and we open the show up with yet another one of our patreon user submitted scene requests and then chat'n'prov about the horrors of de-aging technology, couples costumes, and way to familiar household appliances.

See Ariel Fridays at LSI with Holy Goat

Check out Downpour around the city!

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,https://www.instagram.com/lyonheart/⁠Tim Lyons⁠

We're back from out Autumn break and ready to scareprov! It's like scare actors at Six Flags except just our raspy, semi-sick, getting over a cold voices!

Cadence Messier and Grace Goze are back to chat'n'prov about the do's and don't of scary movies, haunted bathroom ghosts, and cons for panopticons!

Come see us LIVE at LSI October 10th at 10 pm!

See Cadence with The Carries October 29th!

See Grace with Hitchcocktales or Clued in! Also check her out in Dare Dropouts at iO

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,https://www.instagram.com/lyonheart/⁠Tim Lyons⁠

We're on autumn break!

While we're kicking back, please enjoy episode 1 of 2 of some of our best spooky scenes to get us ready for the Halloween Season! If you want to listen to a full episode, you can click to the episode via the show link below:

Lazy Susan's

The DVD with Lauren Frost

Trapped with Franksteins Monsters ExWife

TFRTC with Trent Dozier and Jesse Kendell

Hotel Killafornia

Halloween Spooktacular 2020 with Shadee Vossoughi

It Swallows with Avery Ford and Ryan Bowman

Lost in Random with Mani Lopez

We're on autumn break!

While we're kicking back, please enjoy episode 1 of 2 of some of our best spooky scenes to get us ready for the Halloween Season! If you want to listen to a full episode, you can click to the episode via the show link below:

The Fog That Makes You Shit with Thomas Lennon

Vampyr with Brian Holden and Meredith Stepian

Skibbity Costume Party

Halloween Closet

Doug Gut

Dante’s Inferno with Brad Pike and Gretchen Eng

Him’s Family

We're on Autumn Break! We'll be back October 2nd with an all new episode, but for now enjoy an unlocked episode from the backlog typically only available to Patreon members!

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,https://www.instagram.com/lyonheart/⁠Tim Lyons⁠

Tim's best friend Laurel stops by the pod to hang with Damian and our good friend George Elrod makes his pod debut! We chat'n'prov about shooting guns but not loving it, video game girlfriends, and brain swaps.

Follow George on the gram!

See Real Angels every Wednesday at LSI!

See us LIVE Saturday September 12th at LSI!

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,https://www.instagram.com/lyonheart/⁠Tim Lyons⁠

Two of Improvs finest are back on the pod today, Kyle Bethea and Ollie Hobson! We chat'n'prov about snacks at a funeral, learning new workouts and the best way to sell a couch.

Check out Kyle and Ollie along with Mike Brunlieb as 3 Actors Living in a Cave during their LSI run from September through October at 9:30 pm

See us LIVE at Logan Square Improv in Chicago September 12th!

See Process Saturdays at 6 pm at LSI

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,https://www.instagram.com/lyonheart/⁠Tim Lyons⁠

A big old welcome back to the pod to our good friends Caroline Cotter and Shand Thomas! We chat'n'prov about the return of pumpkin spice, an unwillingness to be dare devils, and no being a cheater.

See Caroline and Shand Together on Goat Sauce

Listen to Stinkers Pod!

Improv is Dead LIVE August 29th!

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,https://www.instagram.com/lyonheart/⁠Tim Lyons⁠

The absolute GOATS are back on the pod and we get into our Burger King orders, what's still good at Mircocenters and getting duct taped on a plane.

Get tickets to our Live show at iO on August 29th

Follow Amir and Ivan on GOAT SAUCE

Amir on the Gram

Ivan on the Gram

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,https://www.instagram.com/lyonheart/⁠Tim Lyons⁠

A week of fixing the internet connection, sexy dentists, and customer support, it's the debut of Matty Vergun and Adonis Holmes on the pod!

See Adonis as part of Devil's Daughter at iO

See Matty with Creamboy at iO

Adonis on the Gram

Matty on the Gram

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,https://www.instagram.com/lyonheart/⁠Tim Lyons⁠

It's simply been too long since we've had good pals Alonso Ramirez and Kristen Aviles on the pod so we said, ok lets do it! We chat'n'prov about having a little fun at the funeral, gnarled toe nails, and how beautiful The Village is.

Check out Kristen and Alonso on Birdlady for FREE Wednesdays at The iO Theater in Chicago.

Follow ESCÁNDALO! for information on when their Hispanic Heritage Month show goes on sale!

Edited and Sound Designed by Nick McMillin

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,https://www.instagram.com/lyonheart/⁠Tim Lyons⁠

Improv is Dead Survey Spooktacular

Claire Favret joins us to chat'n'prov about sexy chefs, late life crushing, and the incredibly talented and very athletic Banana Ballers.

Follow Claire on the Gram!

Follow Downpour for upcoming shows!

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: Tim Lyons⁠ and Damian Anaya

Improv is Dead Survey Spooktacular

Yet another rift in the proverse has brought us an episode with the highly pod trained and hilarious Adal Rifai and Matt Young. If you're familiar with their work on Hello from the Magic Tavern, The Word Association and Hey Riddle Riddle then you're gonna like what we've got going on here. We chat'n'prov about canoe reunions, being toilet bound by cold brew, and famous spiders.

Subscribe to The Nightly to have Matt lull you to sleep when his episodes drop and look for him on WTTW!

See us live with Erin Keif and Laurel Krabacher at iO Fest Saturday July 25th at 8:30 pm

Sound Design by Nick McMillin

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: Tim Lyons⁠

Improv is Dead Listener Survey Spooktacular

Etsy Witches, Spiders, Snakes, and Billy Zane OH MY! Tim is joined by the hilarious duo of Erin Keif and Olivia Nielsen to chat'n'prov your week into overdrive! Follow them together on the gram to check them out at their live show in LA Quality Time monthly at Lyric Hyperion.

And as always listen to Erin on Hey Riddle Riddle!

Sound Design by Nick McMillin

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,https://www.instagram.com/lyonheart/⁠Tim Lyons⁠

You ever find yourself trapped in the Ether Place or super sure you can take everyone in a fight while lounging in a ball pit at McDonalds? Then this weeks ep is for you featuring the insanely funny Mani Lopez from The Mud City Improv Festival and Swamp! Follow both of the IG accounts to keep up to date with live shows and the 2027 festival!

Tickets for LSI this Saturday at 10 pm

Sound Design by Nick McMillin

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,https://www.instagram.com/lyonheart/⁠Tim Lyons⁠

It's Mr. Deli Boys Season 2 himself Jake Prizant back on the pod this week for another mic cackling episode! We chat'n'prov about clay therapy, going viral, commenting for clout and getting on Fallon the wrong way.

Watch Jake on Deli Boys, Season 2 now streaming on HULU

See Jake improvise with Cream Boy at iO

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

Sound Design by Nick McMillin

On the pod this week it's the debut of the very funny Avery Ford and Ryan Bowman! We get chat'n'provin on whales, rent-a-sons, and more!

See Avery and Ryan as part of Blue Print at iO Thursdays at iO

You can also see them at the 11 pm show Fridayst at iO

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!

Guests: Avery Fordand Ryan Bowman

Hosts: ⁠Damian Anaya⁠ and ⁠Tim Lyons⁠

This episodes was Sound Designed by Nick McMillin