page_title: Friday Nite Improvs
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caption_attribution_description: English: The Studio Theatre, a black box space, in the basement of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. The Studio Theatre serves as the home of the Friday Nite Improvs and the Pitt Repertory Theatre, among other groups, at the University. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 75001608 More images
context_page_description: Friday Nite Improvs, or Friday Night Improvs, was a long-running weekly improvisational comedy show staged on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The show functioned as an improv jam, performed by improv actors who don't normally work together. FNI was unique in that, in addition to the audience's providing improv suggestions, the performers are all pulled from volunteers in the audience. FNI ended in 2014. A student improv group, Ruckus, has succeeded FNI as a resident improve group on the University of Pittsburgh's campus.
  Friday Nite Improvs was the longest-running theatrical/comedic production in the city of Pittsburgh. The show regularly featured actors from every improv group in Pittsburgh, and alumni have gone on to act, write, and produce for television and film.
  Readers of the Pittsburgh City Paper ranked Friday Nite Improvs as the 3rd best place to see comedy in Pittsburgh in the 2004 "Best of Pittsburgh" survey behind the professional stand-up clubs The Improv and The Funnybone.
  College Prowler ranked Friday Nite Improvs as the ninth best thing about Pitt.
context_section_description: Friday Nite Improvs, or Friday Night Improvs (FNI), was a long-running weekly improvisational comedy show staged on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The show functioned as an improv jam, performed by improv actors who don't normally work together. FNI was unique in that, in addition to the audience's providing improv suggestions, the performers are all pulled from volunteers in the audience. FNI ended in 2014.  A  student improv group, Ruckus, has succeeded FNI as a resident improve group on the University of Pittsburgh's campus.
  Friday Nite Improvs was the longest-running theatrical/comedic production in the city of Pittsburgh. The show regularly featured actors from every improv group in Pittsburgh, and alumni have gone on to act, write, and produce for television and film.
  Readers of the Pittsburgh City Paper ranked Friday Nite Improvs as the 3rd best place to see comedy in Pittsburgh in the 2004 "Best of Pittsburgh" survey behind the professional stand-up clubs The Improv and The Funnybone.
  College Prowler ranked Friday Nite Improvs as the ninth best thing about Pitt.
caption: The Studio Theatre in the basement of the Cathedral of Learning is the home of Friday Nite Improvs
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