Death By Improv

Do it, dooooo it.

Hi all,

It looks like all of us current and past troupe members have some secret admirers! Are you looking for me? ;) I’m NOT looking for you! :‘(

Recently, I decided to review our site statistics. (OMG, is that ALL we blog about?!) The number one search engine term that has brought people to our website is, of course, “Death By Improv,” but there are some other interesting terms, explainable and unexplainable, that have brought folks here.

Terms such as “DBI,” “improv classes NJ,” “Death by Improv reviews,” and “Tiger Force Forever: Unleashed,” are all understandable. A lot of people search our names, too. We’ve all been ‘googled’ at least once. (Props to Mick Murtha and Chris Brown for breaking the double digits) Our names all frequent the list, however, I’m becoming increasingly worried about.. well, me. The following terms have been searched one time each: 

“Michelle Baker, NJ”
“Michelle Baker, Middlesex”
“Michelle Baker, Woodbridge NJ”
“Michelle Baker, improv comedy”
“Michelle Baker, comedy”
“Michelle Baker, theatre”
“Michelle Baker, improv”
“Michelle Baker, Death by Improv”
“Michelle Baker, Facebook”
“Michelle Ann Baker, MURDER”

UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…. !?!?!?!?! What r u doing? Who are you!? Why are you!?!? WHERE are you!?!?!?!? Please don’t be under my bed collecting my hair and dirty socks. You are a repeat offender of creeping me the fuck out.

I understand the name Michelle Baker is pretty common, and of course I’m being overly paranoid, but if I see anyone at our next show (March 30 BTW) wearing a trench coat and sunglasses, I’m OUT.

Love and oversized jumbo cupcakes,
Michelle

PS: Leave your guns and nunchucks at home, and come see us at home at Main Street Theatre on March 30 and April 6.

PPS: My middle name isn’t Ann. RIP Michelle Ann Baker 

…..or at least across across a section of the Mid-Atlantic.

We’ve got some exciting news-in the next month or so, you can potentially see DBI 4 times in 4 different states.

First off, we’re at the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival on February 16, at the Arts Center West End at 8pm. If you’re in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area (or, as we locals* call it, “the Triangle”), you can get tickets right here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2730142931 Seriously, though, if you’re in the area, I highly recommend checking the festival out. It’s a tremendous amount of fun.

Next stop on our World Tour 2012 is a return to Queens. Last summer, we were thrilled to perform in the Scrimmage, a super fun show with the MishMash! Well, we’re going back to compete against the MishMash! once more, and this time, I promise, there will be casualties!** The show is at 6pm on March 11 at the Creek and the Cave  in Long Island City.

Also, thrilled to be making our Philadelphia debut! We’re performing as a part of Polygon Comedy at L’Etage in Philadelphia on March 13. The show starts at 8pm, and we’re performing with 3 other teams to be determined. Barring another yellow fever outbreak, it should be a good time.

Finally, we’re back home for our regular spot at the Main Street Theater on March 30 at 8pm. We’ll have the DBI Improv Foundations Class under the tutelage of Professor Timothy Norek doing their class show. And we’re back just a week later on April 6 for our April show at the Main Street Theater. Stayed tuned for (hopefully) a really cool announcement about the April show.

* In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve spent maybe 5 days, total, in North Carolina in my entire life.

** No, there won’t.

Before I joined Death By Improv, I was a big fan of Death By Improv (which is not to say I’m not still a fan, I am, but it would be really egotistical of me to come out and say “I’m a huge fan of what I do”, even if I am. I’m a prick, but not that much of a prick”). Y’see, I go way back with DBI, all the way back to the magical autumn of 2004. It was a momentous time for our nation-the Montreal Expos announced that they were moving to Washington for the 2005 season, Belarus approved a constitutional amendment lifting presidential term limits, China had won a remarkable 141 medals at the Paralympic Games, future DBI member Michelle Baker was a high school freshman (Christ I’m old), future other DBI member Eric Lipton was preparing for his 32nd birthday (but not THAT old), and I was entering my second semester at Middlesex County College.

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If you’re anything like the headline to this post, you’ve been wondering what’s going on with DBI?  Well boy howdy, I’ll tell you what’s up with DBI!

First of all, last week we had our January show at the Main Street Theater. If you missed it, you’re shit out of luck…except if you have a working internet connection, which, if you’re reading this, there is a 75% chance you do! Because if you do, you can watch the show over an internet website! Just look a couple inches below for the sweet, sweet improvised goodness!

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