National Comedy Theater March 20, 2009

Similar in style to Drew Carey's 'Whose Line is it Anyway,' the National Comedy Theatre (NCT) presents a 90-minute improvisational comedy show based completely on audience suggestions. As a twist, NCT plays its improvisational comedy played just like a competitive sport. Two uniformed teams go head-to-head on stage in a battle for laughs. A referee oversees the action and calls "fouls" such as the "groaner" (if a person tells a pun that makes the audience groan) and the dreaded "brown bag foul," called if a player says anything not suitable for a family audience, in which case a brown paper bag is placed over the offenders' head.