Holiday Parties, Office Parties, Team Building Fall 2021 menu

We are already starting to book out for holiday parties. December 2021 is going to sell out early. After a year or more without in person bonding moments, teams are eager to get together for holiday cheer and laughs.

We have two major options: our interactive improv comedy shows deliver much needed laughs and while Improv workshops provide powerful team building, or of course, a combination of the two is always recommended if time/budget permits.

EMAIL us to discuss dates and rates. We also have virtual programming for remote teams. Read below for more options, including catering at our Times Square comedy club. See menu links for upcomimg public shows and classes.

Improv Comedy Workshop

Teams from JP Morgan Chase, HSBC, Ernst & Young, Coach, Louis Vuitton and many others have used our workshops to help launch new teams and uplift on going projects.

Our teaching artists lead a series of games. While learning how to improvise we break the ice and build both individual and team skills – listening, focus, communication, presentation skills etc. (Great for team building, leadership, sales and service training.) Simply playing the games pits these skills in the body, simply laughing breaks down walls while building new connections, but we also include tidbits on why we do and how to apply every day in the office and personal life. Our #1 rule: HAVE FUN but never at another’s expense!

$500 includes one teacher up to two hours. Book two or more teachers, or two or more sessions/month and pay just $400/teacher/120 minutes. Rates do not include rental fees or catering at our theater. (See below)

Interactive Musical Comedy Show

The cast of EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH has entertained 7000+ audiences in Times Square and touring nationwide since 2002, including teams from Morgan Stanley, Home Depot, Edy’s Grande, BAML and dozens of more companies.

Four teaching artists, all professional, experience comic actors, many with TV credits, create a series of skits and songs improvised based on your teams suggestions and participation. Similar to WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY but now NYC flavored. At it’s worst, PG-13 rated, this show is perfect with an edgy flavor, due to its fast pace and high energy, but clean/PC enough for both corporate and even family audiences. No one leaves feeling uncomfortable due to content. The show itself can be a powerful team building activity as we get a few of your group on stage.

Rates: Just $800 for a salon style performance 45-60 minute show anywhere in Manhattan. $1500 for our full main stage show (five performers 75 minutes, full sound etc).

Our most popular package: Show/Workshop combo!

Seriously, American Express, Master Card, Johnson and Johnson, NYC Schools Teachers, (Professional Development), Medicare /Medicaide, BDO, and dozens more have all gone all in to deliver laughs and team work.

Rates: $1200 includes 4-person cast and one teachwr for second hour. Just $300/additional hour of workshop OR add a second teacher for larger groups

Virtual Programming

We continue to offer online programing via zoom, or we are happy to use you platform of choice should you decide to host. We have presented multiple programs for Accenture, Milbank, Datadog, HSBC and so many more.

Rates are considerably less AND you can bring teams together from around the world.

  • Workshop $150/hour/teacher
  • Show $350 up to 60 minutes
  • Combo packages: as per your needs we will build a program and budget to suit your needs.

BRING these programs ANYWHERE

We can deliver these programs ANYWHERE. Turn your conference room, office lobby or favorite private room at your fave restaurant into a comedy club. We have even delivered amazing salon shows in the living rooms of large, and a few not so large houses/apartments. We don’t need much. That being said, we have also filled 1000+ seat theaters at colleges, etc. Very flexible. Bring us to you allows more booking options including times, catering etc.

LET US host you in Times Square NYC.

Full disclosure, we woke out of the Broadway Comedy Club. It’s got a great vibe but it’s not fancy. Also we are often limited on booking times, especially with short notice. The comedy club sells out nightly so there is a high premium to shut down for private events after 7pm.

That being said, the space is amazing inexpensive for say time events and a great off campus field trip for many teams. We have hosted groups from JP Morgan Chase, NYC DOE, Twitter, Coach, Louis Vuitton, Ernst & Young, BAML, Johnson and Johnson and dozens more for shows and / or workshops.

Evening rates vary depending Email us your request.

Daytime rental rates at our location start at $200 space fee ($400 for the larger room) for the first two hours. Or, this is absorbed into various catering packages.

Our top three catering options:

Rates  below are on top of artist fees listed above, but include space rental, service and tax. No additional fees when you choose a catering package (except potential higher minimums for evening events). We work with a number of local establishments to cater any cuisine based on your tastes and budget.

  • Happy Hour MOST POPULAR for Corp Teams includes a 2-hour Open Bar plus various finger foods, dips and chips (sliders, wings, fries, hummus, guacamole, salsa, chips, crackers, and some additional vegetarian options. For larger groups this includes a salad) $600/10ppl, $60/additional guest
  • Pizza Party includes the best NYC pizza in midtown and unlimited soft drinks$300/10ppl, $30/additional guest
  • Italian Buffet (Think Tony and Tina’s wedding but MUCH better food) includes Open Bar, Trays of pasta (usually red AND white sauce options), salad, rolls, assorted cookies and desserts (I have a great relationship with the best bakeries on Arthur Ave) and at least one entree (usually chicken parm or marsala but for larger groups we can add a second option) $1000/10ppl, $100/additional guest. A former Opera Singer, our Artistic Director, Walt Frasier, takes his Italian food VERY serious. Also, before turning pro full time performer in 2005, acting career was shared with 10 years in restaurants, including a maitre d’ for 5-star italian. 

Write off team building as a Marketing Expense

***NEW*** Proposed to us by some HR experts from SHRM, bring our programs to the entire company, booking multiple shows and workshops. We will hold the perfect package for you AND provide marketing,.listing you as a sponsor of our public programing, shows and classes, at the theater, on our websites AND social media.

10/17 Sunday 3pm Stand-Up Comedy Show

  • $20 cash at the door. Just $10 in advanced. CLICK HERE or use form below
  • WHEN: Sunday October 17 at 3pm
  • WHERE: Broadway Comedy Club 318 West 53rd Street, NY NY 10019 Between 8th and 9th Avenues. Most Sundays you can find FREE parking on the street near club, garage across the street at 31 West 53rd Streett has discounted rates via SPOTHERO app.
  • TICKETS: $20 cash at the door, Just $10 in advanced. CLICK HERE There is a TWO drink minimum per guest.
  • GO VIP: $100 includes TWO of the BEST seats in the house, TWO drinks (First round from the bar, no restrictions except bottled wine etc) and Snacks (Share any one food item off the menu) No additional purchase required for VIP ticket holders.

LINE- UP

  • MC: Jose D Varela
  • Featuring: Carolyn White, named “America’s Funniest Kid” by Kenan Thompson. Carolyn wrote the forward for Walt Frasier’s book on Stand-up Comedy.
  • Headlining:
    Walt Frasier, TV credits include MTV, Letterman, Friends of the People, Billions, Blue Bloods, Lilyhammer and Royal Pains.
  • Additional Comics TBA

Walt Frasier has been performing professional since the mid 1990s. Since 2002 he has mostly called the comedy stages of New York home as well as touring colleges, corporate events. Frasier made his TV debt in 2006 on MTVs Stankervision, followed up with his first appearance on Letterman and NICK’s Naked Brothers Band along side George Lopez. In 2011, Frasier opened his own comedy school. Now Walt has international credits in TV, comedy, theater and music. During Quarentine, Frasier published the first of three books on comedy, all available for FREE via KindleUnlimited as well as paperback on Amazon. Frasier is also a Producer, Director and Promoter.

Jose D Varela was born and raised in Queens, and being very fortunate having access to the city, the theater district has given Jose an opportunity to better understand theater and it’s many art forms. Jose started in Comedy as a bar back, then a server and now appears a numerous NYC comedy stages, calling Al Martin’s Broadway and Greenwich Village Comedy Clubs home. “Stand Up Comedy has a huge impact for the recovery and a state of claim in effort to have New York City fully back. So I have taken the full time job & responsibility “that’s right no unemployment for me “ on making everybody laugh and having a life changing experience show.”

Today 3pm LIVE Times Square NYC Off-Broadway Improv Comedy

COME BE A PART OF THE SHOW!!!!

The cast of EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH is back Off Broad LIVE in Times Square starting April 10. Since 2002 the troupe has delivered 7000+ shows to audiences Nationwide with their unique brand of short form improv. Think Theater Sports (Comedy Sports/Whose Line Is It Anyway) but instead of the fake competition, cheesy game show theme, the show flows more akin to an Off-Broadway Musical Sketch Comedy Revue (For example: “Forbidden Broadway”, “Newsical”, “I Love You, Your Perfect, Now Change”).

  • WHERE: NEW YORK IMPROV THEATER at the Broadway Comedy Club, 318 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019
  • GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS: $25 plus a one drink minimum
  • VIP SEATING: $50 includes TWO of the best seats in the house AND TWO drinks (Tax/Tip inclujded) NO ADDITIONAL PURCHASE REQUIRED for VIP guests.
  • EMAIL for information regarding group sales and private events including corporate teams, college comedy and k12 educational outreach.

Stand-Up Comedy Workbook

Stand-Up Comedy Workbook

DEVELOP A FIVE-MINUTE ROUTINE IN FOUR EASY STEPS

By WALT FRASIER

Empower yourself using comedy to develop your creative, community and leadership skills! While having a ton of fun, you will build self confidence, presentation/public speaking skills, creative writing, critical thinking, listening and focus.

At each step, you will prepare yourself using the worksheet in the book and links to companion videos, get on stage, then analyze your work.

Walt Frasier has 25+ years professional experience in live performance that also includes TV (Letterman, Billions, Blue Bloods, MTV), commercials and Indy films. His Times Square comedy school not has online classes available for students worldwide.

Each step of the four step process requires stage time to work out your material. The first 100 purchases will include a free class online with Walt ($25 value). Share your routine and get some feedback.

Walt Frasier’s #1 rule is to “HAVE FUN!!!”, a philosophy that rules on and off stage and screen.

In the past decade Frasier has appeared on TruTV’s “Friends of the People”, Showtime’s “Billions” CBS’s “Blue Bloods”, USA’s “Royal Pains” and Netflix’s “Lilyhammer”. Frasier got his start on TV via Sketch Comedy bits on Stankervision (MTV) and Late Night with David Letterman (CBS) as well as appearances as a Life Coach on Hair Trauma (WE) and a Comedy Club owner on Naked Brother’s band (NICK). Out of numerous commercials, Walter is most recognizable as FAT PANTS from a 2013 series of Dr. Oz promos.

The DC area (Gaithersburg, Maryland) native has also performed theater & music off-Broadway, regional, and touring internationally since the 1990s. Since 2002, Walt Frasier has been mostly busy performing & teaching in Times Square and touring nationwide (colleges, corporate events) with EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH Improv Comedy. Formerly the director of instruction for the Comedy Hall of Fame, Walt Frasier opened his Times Square Comedy School in 2011 where he has classes for kids, teens and adults in improv Comedy, Stand-Up Comedy and Sketch Comedy. During Quarantine, Frasier launched his online programming and authored two books: Improv on Zoom and Stand-Up Comedy, both textbooks designed for K12 school students and teachers. Now students form around the world join in the fun.

A NYC DOE Vendor Walt Frasier can be found weekly in NYC area schools offering comedy shows, workshops, residencies and professional develop for teachers and staff. Walt also works closely and through Arts Horizons.

Considered a specialist in corporate team building, using comedy to teach team, leadership, sales and service skills, Frasier’s clients include JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Twitter, Johnson & Johnson, Coach, Louis Vuitton, HBO, HSBC, Ernst & Young, Master Card, AMEX, US Medicare/Medicaid, Edy’s, Home Depot, Edible Arrangements, Milbank, Accenture, Datadog HQ, and 100s more.

ONLINE Improv 4 Kids October/November 2021 Classes

  • Mondays 6pm Improv 10/4-11/15

About this event

Check out more shows & classes from Improv 4 Kids, EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH and New York Improv Theater.

  • WHERE: Online via Zoom, links revealed after registration.
  • WHEN: Mondays October 4, 11, 18, 25 November 1, 8, 15
  • 6pm Improv Comedy
  • 7pm Stand-Up Comedy Open Mic (Optional)
  • RATE: $125 (or AUDIT first class for just $25)
  • WHAT: Each session includes an hour of playing improvised theater games that are a ton of fun and teach valuable life skills., followed by optional open mic for kids & teens at 7pm.

16+ Teens Check out the Adult Class

Teacher: WALT FRASIER

Walt Frasier has been with EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH Improv Comedy since the beginning in 2002. In that time he has hosted over 5000 shows and workshops in Times Square and touring Nationwide. Now considered a specialist in corporate team building, Walter embraces Psychological Safety and tries to teach the world to smile. At every workshop, Walter gives his students homework “Now that you have taken my classes, you are now comics. It is your job to make the rest of the world smile. Don’t wait for the world to make you happy first. Wake every morning and force yourself to smile and see how your world changes.” He has run workshops for JP Morgan Chase, IBM, Morgan Stanley, Master Card, American Express, NYC Schools (DOE VENDOR), Microsoft/BING, Twitter, Louis Vuitton, Coach, Home Depot, Enrst & Young, GM, KRAFT, UBS, UNILEAVER and 100s more smaller/local firms as well as training corporate trainers.

TV: Letterman, Friends of the People, GMA, Royal Pains, Blue Bloods, Lilyhammer, WE, MTV, NICK

FILM: Various Indy/Short Films

Commercials/Industirals: Dr. Oz’s Fat pants, Culligan Water, etc

Musical Theater – Off-Broadway, International Touring, Regional including 2nd Nat’l tiyur Scarlet Pimpernel

ALSO Opera, Church Choir Ringer and can often be found entertaining as Santa, The Blues Brothers, Abbott & Costello or as Piano Singer.

ONLINE Comedy Class Adults Improv & Stand-Up Comedy Monday Nights October 4-November 15

  • 7:30pm Improv Comedy
  • 8:30pm Stand-Up Comedy
  • 16+ Welcome
  • $25 to audit the first class
    $125 for full session – unlimited access to both hours for seven weeks.
    OR pay just $75 for IMPROV or STAND-UP COMEDY only.
    CLICK HERE to REGISTER or use form below
    SIGN UP TODAY and get the rest of September for FREE!!!
  • Check menu links for additional shows and classes in Times Square, Touring nationwide and online WORLDWIDE!
  • EMAIL to get more info on private events for corporate teams, college comedy and k12 educational outreach.

Empower yourself using comedy to develop your creative, community and leadership skills!

  • Mondays 10/4-11/15
  • 7:30 Improv Comedy
  • 8:30 Stand-up Comedy

After registration you will have access to ZOOM LINK, EBOOK on stand-up comedy (Develop 5-minute routine in 4 easy steps) for FREE, and more.

If participating in the Stand- Up Comedy portion, please read up through step one: Brainstorming Ideas before 10/4 class.

7:30 Improv Comedy

Come play with us. Our #1 goal is to have fun, playing a series of games while developing creative skills, listening, self-confidence and even empathy.

8:30 Stand-Up Comedy

This session is run like an open mic, but with some feedback. Use the EBOOK for basic preparation lessons so save class time for presentation.

BONUS – Private Session with Walt Frasier

New for this session, around the end of October, schedule a 15-20 minute session to get more specific feedback on your work away from the class.


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Teacher: WALT FRASIER

Walt Frasier has been with EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH Improv Comedy since the beginning in 2002. In that time he has hosted over 5000 shows and workshops in Times Square and touring Nationwide. Now considered a specialist in corporate team building, Walter embraces Psychological Safety and tries to teach the world to smile. At every workshop, Walter gives his students homework “Now that you have taken my classes, you are now comics. It is your job to make the rest of the world smile. Don’t wait for the world to make you happy first. Wake every morning and force yourself to smile and see how your world changes.” He has run workshops for JP Morgan Chase, IBM, Morgan Stanley, Master Card, American Express, NYC Schools (DOE VENDOR), Microsoft/BING, Twitter, Louis Vuitton, Coach, Home Depot, Enrst & Young, GM, KRAFT, UBS, UNILEAVER and 100s more smaller/local firms as well as training corporate trainers.

  • TV: Letterman, Friends of the People, GMA, Royal Pains, Blue Bloods, Lilyhammer, WE, MTV, NICK
  • FILM: Various Indy/Short Films
  • Commercials/Industrials: Dr. Oz’s Fat pants, Culligan Water, etc
  • Musical Theater – Off-Broadway, International Touring, Regional including 2nd Nat’l tour Scarlet Pimpernel, Fiddler on the Roof, Rocky Horror, etc.
  • ALSO Opera, Church Choir Ringer and can often be found entertaining as Santa, The Blues Brothers, Abbott & Costello or as Piano Singer.

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Comedy is cheaper than therapy!

Perhaps you cannot teach funny, but you can teach anyone to get on stage and have fun sharing some stories and much needed laughter. This program can be a fun launching point for those with dreams of becoming a professional comic, but my focus is teaching others to use comedy to develop your sense of self awareness, build your confidence and develop powerful team and leadership skills.

Getting on stage is a cathartic experience. I live on the edge of a cliff, and at any point I could fall flat on my face. I rip the band aid of fear off every time I jump in front of a microphone. Right before stepping into the spotlight, I replace the thoughts of THIS COULD GO TERRIBLY BAD with THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN. Take a few HUGE breaths and GO FOR IT!

New York Improv Theater: Times Square NYC Comedy School

HAVE FUN! but never at another’s expense – Walt Frasier, Artistic Director of the New York Improv Theater.

Empower yourself using comedy to develop your creativity, community and leadership skills!

Drop by a class this weekend…

We have sessions starting up year round. Many sell out while many allow you to drop in and play to audit our programs. A single comedy class can be a ton of fun and enlightening. A class allows continued growth while sharing much needed laughter.

improv class
Sam Van Wyk works with team from JP MORGAN CHASE

ONLINE CLASSES

While we love being back live, we continue to offer online programming, including public sessions for kids, teens and adults, corporate team building and more. Online session allow participants form around the world to easily and safely play and in most cases at a huge discount over live in person programming. Remote teams need bonding too!

9pm Night All Star Stand-Up Comedy

Get Tickets

  • Click here for $10 tickets to shows Sunday-Thursday regularly priced $20 at the door
  • Click Here to get $25 tickets to shows Friday/Saturday
  • EMAIL for groups sales, private events and more

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2021 – 8:00PM

  • Laurie Kilmartin (The Conan O’brien show, NBC’s Last Comic Standing, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, VH-1’s Best Week Ever, Comedy Central’s Presents, Showtime, CBS, BRAVO)Jared Waters (Comedy Central)
  • Pedro Gonzalez (CBS Late Night with Stephen Colbert Show)
  • Joe DevitoTroy Bond (NBC, NetFlix)
  • Drew Tessier (Yaaas! Fest).

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 6TH, 2021 – 9:00PM

  • Aaron Berg ( Comedy Central Roast Battle)
  • Troy Bond (NBC, NetFlix)
  • Harris Stanton (Opening Act for Tracy Morgan, Numerous appearances on Late Night TV.)
  • Steven Rogers (CBS Late Show)

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 7TH, 2021 – 9:00PM

  • Mike Somerville (The CBS Late Show)
  • Alingon Mitra (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson)
  • Troy Bond (NBC, NetFlix)
  • Plus surprise drop-in comedy stars nightly.