Resolve to be Absolutely Hilarious

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You're already funny. We can teach you how to harness and sharpen your sense of humour. Our classes will teach you the keys to creating hilarious comedy, through improv and sketch comedy writing.

Live comedy every week.

The Impatient Theatre Co. has been performing live comedy in Toronto since 2001. Now, we have shows two nights a week. Sometimes even more. Our improv teams have been featured performers at more than a dozen North American improv and comedy festivals. View our schedule for show times and dates.

Some Things You Might Wanna Know

Facts, tidbits and marginalia about your favourite comedy company.

Our Weekend Warrior Intensive Series Rules. Period.

Our roster of visiting instructors features some of the most well-respected instructors and performers of improv comedy in the world. People like Charna Halpern (co-creator of the Harold), Armando Diaz (co-founder of NYC's Magnet Theater), SNL staff writer Pat O'Brien, former SNL staff writer Rich Talarico, author and screenwriter Jeff Griggs, and other amazing folks like Zach Ward, David Razowsky, Jill Bernard, and BASSPROV's Mark Sutton and Joe Bill. These are the best instructors in the world. Period.

We Created and Produce the Toronto Improv Festival

Since 2002, we have produced the Toronto Improv Festival, now in its eighth year. The festival has featured writers and performers from Saturday Night Live (Jason Sudeikis, Rich Talarico), 30 Rock (John Lutz), Cloverfield (TJ Miller) and many more films and TV shows. This year's festival takes place Sept. 21–27.

Our AD is an Internationally Renown Instructor

Our artistic director, Kevin Patrick Robbins, is an internationally respected teacher and frequent instructor at improv festivals throughout North America. He is a regular master class instructor at the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, one of the largest improv festivals in the world, and has also taught at the Chicago Improv Festival, the most respected improv festival in the world.

Impatient Theatre Co. was Founded in 2001

Yep, we've been around since 2001, influencing the way Toronto performs improv. While longform improvisation was being performed in Toronto before we came around, we were the first company to focus on it exclusively and to build a training program around The Harold, an improv form.