Improv comedy is a powerful tool for personal growth, connection, and mental health, allowing people to challenge comfort zones, build community, and experience joy through shared creativity.
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More than just a joker: a review of Sal Vulcano’s PAC show
Hundreds of students excitedly waited outside of the Performing Arts Center for their face-to-face experience with Sal Vulcano, the stand-up comedian most well-known for his work on Impractical Jokers, podcasts and improv shows. Whether students were bandwagoning off their friends or were actually aware of the comedian’s stardom was unclear.
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Get Ready to be “Scared Scriptless” this Saturday Night with the PAC’s first show of the season!
Cal Poly arts season’s first week is starting off with a bang. Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood, known for their roles on the popular 1980’s comedy series “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” are stopping by Cal Poly’s Performing Arts Center (PAC) on Oct. 16 on their “Scared Scriptless” tour. Attendees can expect an evening full […]
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Smile and Nod adds two new members to its team
Smile and Nod, Cal Poly’s comedy improvisation team, watched over 70 students audition for new spots on their team Sept. 22 and 23. Despite a sprained ankle and a first-time audition, Jade Sigmund and Grace Trotta made the final cut. Sigmund and Trotta had different experiences in terms of their auditions. Communication studies sophomore Sigmund […]
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Smile and Nod brings more than humor to Cal Poly
Smile and Nod does more than just shows at Cal Poly, the group travels internationally for competitions.
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The Second City to bring in Smile and Nod members for PAC show
Our city meets The Second City.
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5-Minute Update: Smile and Nod Edition
Mustang News anchor Julian Del Gaudio speaks with a member of Smile and Nod in this special Mustang News broadcast.
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Smile and Nod meets greek life, hemlock and condoms
“Am I boxing using condoms as boxing gloves, but instead of the condoms, I’m creating a religion based around ‘Mean Girls’ and instead of my opponent, I’m fighting the saying, ‘that’s the way the cookie crumbles?’”
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Smile, nod and fall off your chair laughing
Allison Montroy amontroy@mustangdaily.net Not a single person is still. All around there is hopping, jumping, clapping and chanting. Kanye West’s “Ni**az in Paris” fills the small, curtained room with energy. Three groups form, laughing, shaking and shuffling their feet against the concrete floor. They make up skits, jokes and stories. To an outsider, it may […]
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Improv comedy groups to bring laughs to Chumash
The Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade Theaters will perform off-the-cuff and sketch comedy in the first improv series on campus the next two Friday nights. Cal Poly’s own Improv group, Smile and Nod, will open for UCB January 29.