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Now That's What I Call Comedy

The Indiana Daily Student: Weekend - May 7th, 2008

ASC Goes to Oberlin Improv Conference

AwkwardSilenceComedy.Com - April 20th, 2008

Troupe Member Kind-Of Pissed About Ellipses

AwkwardSilenceComedy.Com - April 8th, 2008

Awkward Silence Creates Four Improvised Musicals

Indiana Daily Student - February 18th 2008

Making Up A Musical

Indiana Daily Student - February 14th 2008

Awkward Silence Comedy: The Improvised Musical Premiering February 14th

AwkwardSilenceComedy.Com - February 5th, 2008

Local and Visiting Comedy Troupes Entertain Audiences

Indiana Daily Student - February 4th 2008

Bloomington a Center for Comedy, New Acts and Old

The Bloomington Alternative - January 20th 2008

Triple Your Laughter, Triple Your Fun

Indiana Daily Student - January 14, 2008

The Tense Quiet of Awkward Silence

AwkwardSilenceComedy.Com - December 21, 2007

Awkward Silence Comedy: Third Best Place to Have Fun

AwkwardSilenceComedy.Com - November 20, 2007

ASC Stomps (Almost) Everyone in Chicago!!!

AwkwardSilenceComedy.Com - November 5, 2007

Student improvisation troupe gets laughs while making up every show on the spot

Indiana Daily Student - October 2007

Awkward Silence Comedy to host 'improv jam session'

Indiana Daily Student - January 2007

Skits & Giggles

Herald Times - April 2006

Jokes on the rise

Indiana Daily Student - February 2006

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ASC Goes to Oberlin Improv Conference

By Ryan Brown

Awkward Silence Comedy rocked the Oberlin College Improv Conference this past weekend, and boy, was it an adventure. When asked about the weekend, the group had much to say about what they had learned, sights they saw, and how EXPLOSIVE the local color was in the quaint town of Oberlin, Ohio.

On Friday night, the group arrived in Oberlin and were treated to a double bill show of professional improve troupes, The Irish Mutts and I Eat Pandas. Later that night, the inter-troupe mixer occurred, where Brian M. Frange’s own Quarter Bets made its debut to tremendous success with the PBR-wielding comedians. When asked about it, the group founder commented, "Put your pussy on the floor."

The next day, members of the group participated in three different comedy workshops in topics ranging from character monologues to free-form intensive lead by members of the professional troupes. Most workshops were wonderful and taught the group many new things about improv, such as Bibbins in the Con. "My hip just popped," said member Sean Liston.

That night, the group performed in front of the other student troupes at the conference and had a wonderful free-for-all of improv. Alex got humped by a toad. When the night was winding down, they decided to go back to their housing to settle down for the night, and Ryan emerged from the woods without his tie to join them.

The conference was concluded with a two-hour rap session that was so hot that Georgia performed "Puppetry with Penises," and Grace creamed her pants.