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Improv Everywhere - We Cause Scenes

Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 80 missions involving thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.

Basically, they are a huge improv troupe that causes crazy scenes in crazy places.

Improv Everywhere...

What's this all about?

Well, a group of Actors/Improvists known as agents go out on what they call missions. Improv Everywhere's missions might be defined by some as obscure events designed to make people laugh. 'Improv Everywhere' are believers in what they call "organized fun." They take funny ideas and bring them to life. For example, Improv Everywhere once had over one hundred agents dressed in blue shirts and khaki pants walk into a 'Best Buy' and simply stand around like employees. One mission saw Improv Everywhere bring several hundred people to Grand Central Station and simultaneously freeze for five minutes, then continue on as if nothing has happened. Improv Everywhere have been known to greet strangers at the airport with a hero's welcome, stop a suicide jumper (from a 2 foot ledge) and bring a dozen old-style desktop computers into a Starbucks (with free WiFi, of course).

They are... Improv Everywhere

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Improv Everywhere

Operation Best Buy

Check this out, a bunch of Improv Everywhere 'agents' went into a 'Best Buy' wearing blue shirts and khaki pants and stood around for a while. Actually, Improv Everywhere did a better job then their actual employees. Where is Chuck when you need him?

This really cracked me up...
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Improv Everywhere Spoofs Aspen's Lack Of Racial Diversity With 'Meet A Black ...
Improv Everywhere, a self-described New York City 'prank collective,' decided to highlight Aspen's lack of diversity in a recently released video. Titled, "Meet a Black Person," the two-minute clip features a man at a booth in Downtown Aspen greeting ...
Did Budweiser exploit beer league hockey players in its Super Bowl commercial hit?
Brian from Regular Guy believed Budweiser lifted the idea from Improv Everywhere. That was a quibble. Did the brewing company fail to fairly compensate the beer league players, and the crowd watching them, in its ad? According to Tristan Hopper of the ...
Improv Everywhere's Fake Subway Wedding Comes with Fake Subway Wedding Crasher
By Drew Grant 2/02 3:56pm This ?Blessed Event? video reminds us of how far the whimsical comedy group Improv Everywhere and its ilk have come since their inception?and not in a good way. It used to be that Charlie Todd's gathering of merry pranksters ...
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Food Court Musical

Don't you hate it when you are minding you own business at the food court and one of those darn annoying musicals just breaks out. Out of nowhere! Just when you think it's over...
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Welcome Back

Isn't it nice when you get back from a vacation and someone meets you at the airport? What if it was a whole group of 20 strangers and they did it Improv Everywhere style?
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Frozen Grand Central

So you're on your way to work through Grand Central Station and all of a sudden over 200 people suddenly freeze in their tracks. What does this mean? Is the world coming to an end.. or is a new one just beginning?
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Well... If you live in New York City and want to participate...
Click Here to join Mailing List and sign up to be on their agent list!

You can also sign up for their news letter (about 2x a month)!
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The Amazing Hyponotist

This is one of my favorites! The group pretends to get hypnotized. They pretend to do ridiculous things. They pretend to make a woman break up with the boyfriend and fall in love with another man (it's OK she actually 'fell in love' with her real boyfriend) but the crowd did not know. They were not pleased!
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Best Game Ever

This is a little league game that the Improv Everywhere troupe treated to the 'major league' experience. They brought fans, cheerleaders, announcers, a huge scoreboard and yes... the blimp! This is one game the kids will never forget!
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Suicide Jumper

Maybe we can save a life today, as the Improv Everywhere team of agents talk down a suicide jumper. Crowds gather as one agent challenges death as he threatens to jump from a three foot high ledge. Can our agents save him?
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No Pants Subway Ride

It's one heck of a day, when over 1200 New Yorkers ride the subway on a freezing winters day... with no pants on!
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Mobile Desktop

Do you know how many Starbucks offer free WiFi for your laptop computer? Well.. who said it had to be a laptop? As a dozen or so Improv Everywhere agents enter a New York Starbucks with their huge desktop computers and old time huge monitors and set up shop!
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Redheads Protest Wendy's

A group of about 50 redheaded Improv Everywhere protesters stand outside a Wendy's to protest the logo. As 'Wendy" does not accurately portray the modern redhead according to the NAARP (National Association for the Advancement of Redheaded People). A must see of you have red hair (or blonde, black, brown gray or are bald)!
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No Shirts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdeBp8J0rqs

Over 100 Improv Everywhere agents walk into an Abercrombe & Fitch store in Manhattan completely shirtless. Just like the company has in their logo. Let's just say that the management of the store was less than thrilled. They wouldn't even let the gentlemen purchase shirts from the store in order to remain in the store. They had to leave, get shirts and return if they wanted to purchase one. Brilliant logic! Rock on Abercrombe!
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    lil_muchang Jan 11, 2010 @ 11:40 am | delete
    I loveeeee Improv Everywhere!! :) They are so funny
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    lil_muchang Jan 11, 2010 @ 11:40 am | delete
    I loveeeee Improv Everywhere!! :) They are so funny
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    arncyn Dec 21, 2009 @ 8:35 am | delete
    As a former ad person, I had learned of Improv Anywhere a few years ago when we were exploring non-traditional advertising so it was a pleasant surprise running into this excellently-crafted lens on them! Fantastic tribute to such a groundbreaking movement. (:
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    Greekgeek Nov 16, 2009 @ 3:15 pm | delete
    Great lens! Even if I am wistful!
    I was building a lens on Improv Everywhere, got to picking the URL and -- wait, someone already though of it! I came here expecting to find a lens Under Construction -- the claimed URLs usually are -- only to find you did an excellent job, just the sort of thing I had in mind. I can't top that; it would just be duplicating your work!

    So I've sprinkled a rating and enjoyed some of my favorite vids again (The Best Game Ever is my favorite).

    Note: when you got the code for my "Shameless Plug" widget, you also hotlinked to icons I have stored on my own server. I don't mind, but in return, you gotta visit the lens I made instead, on the background behind the Antwerp Train Station Sound of Music stunt which I bet you know about -- but I found out a little about where it came from. :)

    http://www.squidoo.com/sound-of-music-train-station-antwerp
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    rlmodranski Jun 5, 2009 @ 11:18 pm | delete
    I heard of them when they were in Grand Central, but didn't realize it was a "group". This is absolutely tremendous!!! Thanks for sharing!
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Best Funeral Ever

The prank of all pranks...

On April Fools Day (April 1st), 2009, Improv Everywhere was at it again... but who was the prank really on? The group decided to attend a random funeral and pretend that they knew the dearly departed... Well, not exactly. The "family members" were actually part of the troup as well, however CW11, the news crew that filmed the prank, didn't know that.

People were quite outraged by the prank... until they realized that the entire thing was staged. You can read the commentary on You Tube or at Improv Everywhere's Website.
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The Best Funeral Ever... The Outtakes

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