ComedySportz
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Description
This is a Game. It is in the following categories:
ComedySports was started by Dick Chudnow in 1884 in Milwaukee. It's a format of competitive improvisational comedy that resembles Keith Johnstone 's Theatresports . The format is currently played by a dozen-plus teams all over the USA, united in the Comedy League of America.
In a ComedySportz show 2 teams complete for points given by the audience. A referee oversees the match, times the games, calls fouls and gets audience suggestions. A match consists of something like 7 to 12 games, drawn from a repertoire of over a hundred games (you'll find most of these games in the Games section of Improv Encyclopedia).
In terms of gimmicks, you have the 'brown bag foul', which is a brown paper bag placed over the offending player's head.