Third Annual San Francisco Improv Festival

As producer of this festival and with no ill will to Massive Creativity…
I actually concur with the following statement in the last review. I only wish you would have stayed for 15-​minutes from San Jose.
As for the rest of the festival from last year, I only wish he was not shy’d away from improv. With incredible ensembles like Razowsky and Clifford, True Fiction Magazine, Nation of Improv, Dad’s Garage, The Second City’s The Group it was one incredible overall festival.
Rick H. I offer you tickets for our opening weekend to SFIF07 We would love to have you have a great experience seeing improv comedy.

I’m all for alternative arts, theater and entertainment, improv comedy being one of those alternatives. Entertainment would consist mainly of sports, movies and television if it weren’t for the many colorful entertainment choices available to us lucky smug little San Franciscans. However, I have to say that watching the group that I saw (Massive Creativity), was just downright uncomfortable and an exercise in awkwardness. This is an improv group from Houston, Texas, comprised of 5 young women. It seemed to me that the personality conflicts, petty frictions and animosity of the players was being played out through the skits, and created a feeling of amateurism (not to mention the fact that they just weren’t funny). I realize that such stage quirks are typical for improvisational comedy, and the truly clever and quick-​witted can make this part of the fun, but in this instance, it seemed to get too personal and a little ugly. I endured 60 minutes of this scene and then, expecting more of the same from the second act, used the break between groups as my ticket to slink out the back door.