improvised comedy
Made-up-on-the-spot laughs
Improvised comedy is comedic performance created spontaneously without a script, where performers invent dialogue, characters, and scenarios on the spot.
Often shortened to improv.
The form typically involves audience suggestions and ensemble techniques: We took an improv class together.
The show was entirely improvised comedy—no two performances were alike.
- standupSolo comedic performance
- sketchHasty informal drawing
- witClever, inventive humor
- spontaneousArising without external cause
- audienceGathered viewers collectively
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- Italian theaterHarlequin, stock characters, scenario, scenarios, theatrical companies
- comedyjokes, humor, puns, sarcasm, stand-up
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Short comic performances
sitcom · theatrical comedy · stand-up comedy · comedic play · monologue
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Tartuffe's comic creator
drawing room comedy · comedy of manners · theatrical revival
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