VDay Comedy Shows

Don't be alone on Valentines Day with a pint of Ben & Jerry's, instead drown your sorrows with laughter at Wesleyan's Comedy Shows!

What? Desperate Measures improv(e) comedy show
Where? Nic Lounge
When? 7-8 PM, Saturday, February 14
Why? Because its Valentine's day and you want to see our boobies. And improv... I guess...

What? Gag Reflex: The Valentines Day Show
Where? WestCo Cafe
When? 8 pm, Saturday, February 14th
Why? A veritable smorgasboard of musings about love, loneliness, relationships, and things of similar ilk. Come on down with either your sweetheart or your sorrows.

What? Lunchbox is having its 258th annual Valentine's day show
Where? Nic Lounge
When? 9 PM, Saturday February 14

Gag Reflex's Reading Week Show

Mary Lauran Hall '10 sends in some info about the tomorrow night's GR show:

Gag Reflex is once again having a reading week show, which should maybe be called a "reading two days and then two days of exams and then reading weekend then more exams" show. Come on down to the science center lobby at 9:30 on Tuesday night! There will be improvisation, there will be laughing, there will be a battle about who has the most stuff to do. And the most work-laden audience member wins a bottle of SoCo. What more could you ask for?

What: Gag Reflex reading "week" show
Where: Science Center lobby
When: Tuesday night, 9:30 PM
Why: 'Cause we all need a little Southern Comfort
How: Swimmingly

Gag Reflex: Thanksgiving Show

GAG REFLEX IMPROV COMEDY is putting on a Thanksgiving Show this Saturday. I imagine that they improvise comedy better than I improvise event write-ups, so I'm done here. Look below for what you need to know.

Date: Saturday, November 22
Time: 9pm
Place: World Music Hall, Free*
_{*Laughter is the greatest form of thanks.}

Gag Reflex, Bring the Family

Catch Gag Reflex tonight:

WHAT: Gag Reflex family weekend show!
WHY: More fun than family game night.
A recent study by the esteemed researchers at the Institute for Family Hilarity (UC Davis Division) revealed that family dynamics benefit enormously from joint viewing of improv shows. They found that embarrassment about parents also decreased by up to 34% when said improv was of the "long form variety." A select few research participants even experienced orgasm during periods of extended laughter.

Clearly you should come to the Gag Reflex improv show tonight.

Date: Friday, October 17
Time: 9 pm
Place: Westco Cafe, FREE!

Gag Reflex show

Mary Lauren Hall '10 and the rest of Gag Reflex would like to kick off your break with a laugh:

I'm sure we all know that Aristotle once said, "Comedy is the best form of study break." And I know we have all read the most recent American Bureau of Adolescent Science study that decisively proved that endorphins released during laughter provide exponential benefits to the studying, paper-writing student.

So...

Come to Gag Reflex's pre-break show, tomorrow night (Thursday) at 8 PM in the Nicholson lounge! It'll be an hour of hilarious improv comedy, all completely free of charge and devoid of trans-fat.

What?: Gag Reflex improv comedy show
Where?: Nicholson Lounge
When?: Thursday (tomorrow!), 8PM

Gag Reflex Show!

Mary Lauran Hall '10 brings us science! Sort of:

Researchers at the American University in Cairo recently published a study in which it was found that humans aged 18-25 experienced drastically improved study skills (heightened concentration, increased brain activity, especially acute memory) for up to seven days when exposed to moderate to high levels of long-form improvisational comedy. Researchers determined that the study group with the most benefits had witnessed long-form type improvisational comedy in an environment with two elevators and a marble floor and then experienced prolonged exposure to short-form improvisational comedy (also known in some English vernacular as "improv").

Clearly, in order to improve performance during exam time, everyone should come to the GAG REFLEX READING WEEK SHOW TONIGHT, at 8 PM, in the SCIENCE CENTER LOBBY. The person who is most fucked with work to do wins a bottle of Southern Comfort!

Date: Tuesday, Dec. 11 (Also known as tonight!)
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Science Center Lobby

Gag Reflex Show this Friday

Gag Reflex will be having their first show of the semester this Friday. This will be a special show for two reasons:

1. It will be the first Gag Reflex show ever to have more females in the ensemble than males.

2. You can bring some dollars and cents to donate to Gag member, Jessalee Landfried '07's bike trip for Habitat for Humanity! (Clean out under your bed! Bring a sock full of nickels!).

Jessalee writes:

The show is free, but we'll be collecting voluntary donations to support my ride. I need to raise $2,000 to participate in the bike trip (the other riders need to raise $4,000, but as one of twelve student leaders I'm also charged with planning the entire trip, so my fundraising load is lessened). so far i've raised $1,100, and every little bit extra will help me SO much. Last year, we (the Habitat Bicycle Challenge, that is) raised $430,000 - enough to build eight homes in the new haven area - and we're hoping to do even better this year!

Date: Friday, February 23
Time: 8-9pm
Place: Nic Lounge
Bring: Moneyz for Jessalee (free admission regardless but you should bring the moneyz for Jessalee)

Gag Reunion

Gag Alum Jesse Young '06 has told me that it is of the utmost importance that you all attend the 15th anniversary reunion of Gag Reflex tomorrow night.

From the goat-herder himself:

Although anthropologists trace Gag Reflex's origins back to a small group of totally bored 17th century monks in the Basque region of Spain, Gag Reflex came into being on the Wesleyan campus some 15 years. It was the first improv group on campus, pre-dating DM by a few years (and New Teen Force, which sprung from DM). A celebratory fete is clearly in order, and thus was planned the Gag Reflex 15th Anniversary Improv-Spectacular for the Year of Our Lord 2006. OMG.

Basically, craploads of alums are coming up to campus for two days of wackiness and fun, capped off by an awesome Saturday-night show. Former gag alums have spread far and wide. Some write for TV shows like Weeds, some created TV shows ("How I Met Your Mother") some are big players at improv theaters (The Washington Improv), and some are members of the Blue Man Group (for serious). We are hell of talented folks. Except those that work in politics for no money like me. Um, crap.

The show will be, for lack of better word, mega-sweet-awesome-face. It'll be at 8:00 in the Chapel, and full of delicious improv from people who have actually, uh, had legitimate life experiences outside of collegiate education.

We had a 10-year show 5 years ago (you can find it the Argus archives somewhere), and it was apparently a huge blast. This is easily one of the biggest comedy events at Wesleyan this year, and possibly ever (with the exception of Ralph Nader's lecture last year).

COME. IT WILL RULE. WHOOO!

Date: Saturday, October 7
Time: 8pm
Place: Chapel

Gag Reflex Reunion Show

Gag Reflex is turning 15! Alums will return. Etc., etc., etc...

Date: Saturday, October 7
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Memorial Chapel