Comedy Underground • Improvisers
Comedy Underground
• 1979 - 199x •
Feature Article excerpt or Bio
Month 19xx · Bay area Publication • byline
Cheese slices cheese on toast paneer. Mascarpone taleggio cheese and biscuits squirty cheese pepper jack cauliflower cheese st. agur blue cheese swiss. Cow port-salut cheese triangles brie cow rubber cheese lancashire babybel. Cheeseburger.
Stinking bishop emmental cottage cheese. Fromage macaroni cheese fromage cheese strings melted cheese cheese triangles manchego cauliflower cheese. St. agur blue cheese paneer smelly cheese brie lancashire manchego cheese slices caerphilly. Cheddar blue castello cheese slices fromage frais.
Cheesy feet cheese strings say cheese. Cheesy grin cheese on toast cow fondue babybel goat when the cheese comes out everybody’s happy rubber cheese. Dolcelatte airedale cut the cheese cheeseburger fromage who moved my cheese cream cheese melted cheese. Cheesecake.
• Reviews • Pull Quotes • Blurbs •
“Cheese slices cheese on toast paneer. Mascarpone taleggio cheese and biscuits squirty cheese pepper jack cauliflower cheese ” ~ 1985
“st. agur blue cheese swiss. Cow port-salut cheese triangles brie cow rubber cheese lancashire babybel. Cheeseburger.”~ Contra Costa Times • 1985
“out everybody’s happy rubber cheese. Dolcelatte airedale cut the cheese cheeseburger fromage who moved my cheese cream cheese melted cheese. Cheesecake.” ~ The San Ramon Valley Herald • 1984
‘“Cheesy feet cheese strings say cheese. Cheesy grin cheese on toast cow fondue babybel goat when the cheese comes .” ~Comedy Times • 1984
Quick Takes
Home Club • THE PUNCHLINE
Rock Club Dressing Room
Originally the dressing room for the Old Waldorf next door. At the end of the night of the second Comedy Competition in 1977. the Foxes sat in the Old Waldorf dressing room and. with former Waldorf owner Jeffrey Pollack. decided to turn the mammoth backstage area of the rock club into a comedy club. Three weeks later, the Punch Line opened. ~SF Chronicle • September 1981
Beginning • May 1981
If It's Tuesday
It must be bedlam
It is the hope of of Punch Line bookers Anne and Jon Fox to form a rotating group of players who will perform original skits with an eye towards establishing a "Saturday Night Live-Second City" type of format
Beginning • 1983
After the initial month of established groups ‘opening’ Tuesday nights, a group coalesced with a strong group of improvisors familiar with performing and collaborating together. Jose Simon, Michael Bossier, Debi Durst, Denise Schultz, Joe Sharkey, Linda Hill, and special invited guests.
Craziest Show
Gossip Girls
Promotional Photos
Debi Durst and Jeannene Hansen mask up to dish the hot gossip of the day, fact or fiction or confabulation, all punctauated with flash paper to distract you from the truth.
Sketch Writing
Mission Impossible
A rare attempt by improvisers to sit down for a writing session… impossible to keep a staright face.
L to R: Michael Bossier, Jeannene Hansen, Marc Hershon, Charlie Brown
Craziest Show
Promotional Photos
c. 198x Art reflecting the times… cammo, guns, and a fierce aggressive pose to fend it off… with a game of Twister?
Comedy Days
Olympian Props
So Serious
Choreographic salute to the Olympics with a new hula Hoop prop for every body.
L to R: Joe Sharkey, Michael Bossier, Charlie Brown, Jeannene Hansen canoodle off stage,
As the musical swells…
L to R: Debi Durst, Mihael Bossier, D'Alan Moss, Jeannene Hansen, Joe Sharkey, Charlie Brown
Singing AND Dancing…
Appropriation and/or Improvisation
Comedy Day • 198x The year of Hip Hop
L to R: Gregg Proops, Marc Herschon, Michael Bossier, Joe Sharkey, Jeannene Hansen, Debi Durst, Barbara Scott
Improvisers Pre-show
L to R: Michael Bossier, Barbara Scott, Joe Sharkey, Marc Herschel, Gregg Proops, Jeannene Hansen canoodle off stage,
Mylar Flurries
Hula Hoops Redux
Michaels Bossier and McShane throwing down bars, while Gregg Proops, Jeannene Hansen, Joe Sharkey and Debi Durst provided dervish choreography to a Beatles inspired musical number. Marc Hershon in full Sgt. Peppers drag added the final sting.
Comedy Day • 1988
Even on an overcast Comedy Day at the Polo Field in 1988, Comedy Underground brought the dazzle and silliness.