NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Improv Everywhere (commonly abbreviated IE) is a New York City-based humorous performance art ensemble founded in 2001 by Charlie Todd. The trio will now take a more constricted stage as they prepare to audition for 'America's Got Talent' Season 18.
Season 18 of 'AGT' auditions aired from May 30, 2023, until August 8, 2023. Each artist that performed in front of the judges was given 90 seconds to impress the four judges. An act was accepted for the next round if it obtained at least three "Yes" votes from the judges. Otherwise, they would be eliminated from the tournament.
Who is Improv Everywhere on 'AGT'?
Improv Everywhere is a New York City-based comedic troupe that delivers surprise public performances. Improv Everywhere, founded in August 2001 by Charlie, strives to surprise and amuse random individuals through good pranks.
We have produced hundreds of initiatives involving tens of thousands of undercover actors over the last 20 years. Highlights include stopping time at Grand Central Terminal, providing 100 more staff to Best Buy, and allowing random individuals to conduct a world-class symphony in the midst of Manhattan. Improv Everywhere puts on surprise performances for people of all ages in public places in order to "cause a scene" in the most captivating and joyous way possible.
For almost eight years, Charlie has been producing, directing, performing, and filming the group's work. He is also an improv comedy coach and performer with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. He also wrote 'Causing a Scene' (HarperCollins, 2009).
Since its inception in August 2001, Improv Everywhere has carried out over 100 missions involving hundreds of undercover operatives, including the renowned Grand Central Freeze and the notorious Best Buy blue shirt invasion. The group's videos have gotten over 100 million views on YouTube.
No Pants Tube Ride
The videos of Improv Everywhere have been shared all around the world and have been featured in mainstream media outlets such as 'Today,' 'Good Morning America,' and The New York Times. Improv Everywhere's comedic masterminds have employed flash mob-style tactics to break the humdrum of every day in NYC since 2011.
With the annual No Pants Tube Ride, they constructed a crazy time-travel scenario on a local train and embarrassed commuters all around town in 2016. For one of the newest Improv Everywhere missions, creator Charlie and his co-conspirators staged a fictitious graduation ceremony in Bryant Park, inviting individuals from the street to offer graduating speeches. The mission appears to have yielded fascinating results.
After a group of robed performers took their seats as graduates and faculty of the fictitious Big Apple University, ensemble member Ryan Karels went to the park with a poster that stated, 'Commencement Speaker Needed.' Then things started to get interesting. A wide range of speakers took the stage, including pre-schoolers, an adult who mispronounced Susan Sontag's name, and a speaker who spoke fully in Spanish.
A floating, socially separated workplace in the middle of the East River may sound enticing after quarantining and working from home in a cramped New York City flat. Your Zoom backdrop view would undoubtedly make your coworkers envious. In 202, astonished passersby on land and jet skiers and boaters on the river discovered a raft turned office just off the beach of Pebble Beach in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood. The stunt was inspired by the Institute's purpose of fostering culture on New York's waterways, as well as all of our attempts to keep people safe during the COVID-19 outbreak. It was created by Improv Everywhere and the Tideland Institute.
If you thought the bitter weather would keep New Yorkers from taking part in the 17th Annual No Pants Subway Ride, you were wrong. Improv Everywhere, the New York City-based comedy troupe responsible for the clever prank, has revealed photos and a video from this year's event, which took place in January 2018.
Improv Everywhere transformed the 23rd Street 6-train lift into New York's newest Apple Store in 2017. They put phony Apple Store staff and a queue of 50 people waiting for the new iPhone X on the edges of the glass cube construction.
Improv Everywhere on 'AGT' Season 18
Charlie created Improv Everywhere, a New York City-based improv group, in 2001. They have a sizable fan base. Their 1.88 million YouTube viewers characterize the group's operations as "massively organized stunts in public places." The ensemble has had multiple videos with over 10 million views on YouTube, including their most popular scene from 15 years ago, "Frozen Grand Central," which has 37 million views.
They will now compete in the final round of auditions for 'AGT' Season 18, which will air on August 8.
New episodes of 'America's Got Talent' Season 18 air every Tuesday on NBC at 8 pm ET.