Posts by Kevin Miller
Tonight in Austin Improv: Wednesday, November 25
twitch.tv/coldtownetv 8:00 – Yeah But Are You Happy? ___ twitch.tv/hideouttheatre 5:00 – Pgraph ___ FACT OF THE DAY: One day after the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, psychology professor Ulric Neisser asked his students to fill out a questionnaire about their experience witnessing the disaster. Two years later, Neisser gave the subjects the same questionnaire.…
Read MoreTonight in Austin Improv: Tuesday, November 24
FACT OF THE DAY: Only one of the four ghosts in Pac-Man—Blinky, the red ghost—is always chasing Pac-Man himself. Pinky is always pursuing a spot four tiles in front of Pac-Man; Inky is pursuing a spot on the opposite side of Blinky; and Clyde runs to a corner when he gets within eight tiles of…
Read MoreTonight in Austin Improv: Monday, November 23
twitch.tv/819entertainment 7:00 – Nuked ___ twitch.tv/falloutcomedy 8:00 – Fuck This Week ___ FACT OF THE DAY: Humans are the only species affected by poison ivy.
Read MoreTonight in Austin Improv: Sunday, November 22
twitch.tv/hideouttheatre 11:00 – Hideout Kids ___ FACT OF THE DAY: The phrase “mind your Ps and Qs” comes from typesetting. Because the type being assembled is backwards, it was a very common mistake to mix up lowercase p and q.
Read MoreTonight in Austin Improv: Saturday, November 21
comedysportzaustin.com 7:30 – ComedySportz Web Show ___ twitch.tv/coldtownetheater 8:00 – Midnight Society ___ twitch.tv/falloutcomedy 9:00 – Fuck Marry Kill ___ twitch.tv/hideouttheatre 7:30 – Pgraph 10:00 – Maestro ___ FACT OF THE DAY: In 1859, a boy released a European eel into a well in Brantevik, Sweden. The eel lived for another 155 years, dying on…
Read MoreTonight in Austin Improv: Friday, November 20
twitch.tv/coldtownetheater 8:00 – CTTV Live, feat. DVD Players, Queerantine, and Protextor’s Playhouse ___ twitch.tv/falloutcomedy 8:00 – Bathtub Show ___ twitch.tv/hideouttheatre 7:30 – Put Your Lips Together and Blow ___ FACT OF THE DAY: The Eternal Flame Falls is a small waterfall in Chestnut Ridge Park near Buffalo NY. A grotto inside the waterfall’s base emits…
Read MoreTonight in Austin Improv: Thursday, November 19
twitch.tv/falloutcomedy 9:00 – Hardass Trivia ___ twitch.tv/hideouttheatre 4:00 – Hideout Kids 9:30 – The Free Fringe, feat. Once Upon a Rhyme (A Hip Hop Armando) ___ FACT OF THE DAY: Earth’s north and south magnetic poles have flipped 23 times in the last five million years, with periods lasting as little as a few thousand…
Read MoreTonight in Austin Improv: Wednesday, November 18
twitch.tv/coldtownetv 8:00 – Yeah But Are You Happy? ___ twitch.tv/hideouttheatre 5:00 – Pgraph ___ FACT OF THE DAY: The house in Washington DC where John Wilkes Booth planned the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is now a Wok & Roll restaurant.
Read MoreTonight in Austin Improv: Tuesday, November 17
FACT OF THE DAY: Fortune cookies originated in Japan; they are virtually unknown in China.
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