Cog
COG is a long-running IO West team, dedicated to an experimental approach to the IO’s signature piece, the Harold. Founded in 2004 by Dave Hill, Craig Cackowski and Bob Dassie, the original lineup of COG featured equal amounts of Chicago-trained veterans, L.A.-trained veterans and IO West students. COG has played in some the country’s most prestigious improv festivals, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix, and UCB NY’s Del Close Marathon. Members emeriti include Bob Dassie, Rachel Barber, Jason Pardo, Tami Sagher, and 30 Rock’s Jack McBrayer and Scott Adsit.
Brian Shortall, John Abbott, Nick Armstrong, Mike Bertrando, Mike Coen, Thomas Fowler, Dave Hill, Erin McGathy, Kate Purdy, Julia Wackenheim, Craig Cackowski
Sunday Mainstage Sketch Show POP! Sketch Cage Match Top Story! Weekly
Monday Cagematch: Omega Cherry Crush Hosted by Cherry The Armando Show
Tuesday USS Rock n Roll Sweetness Powerhouse Local 132 Gypsy Lou Fairfax Prep
Wednesday The Lottery DHT King Ten The Cartel Suckerbet Trophy Wife Bandit
Thursday Dasariski iO West Cage Match The iO Rep Presents: The Subject
Friday Big News Friday Forty Friday Write Club iO Jam Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!® Relationsh!t
Saturday Beer Shark Mice Dr. God God Squad The 313 The Lampshades
Mainstage Special Shows Advanced Harold Level 7 Grad Show Associates of Awesome BEANS! Big Bennessy BOOK CLUB Brides in the Alley Bro Squad 5 Celebrity w/ Zack and Miri Make a Porno’s Elizabeth Banks Chicken Scratch Daddy Warbucks DAZE OF THE ORB Deconstruction Desk Piece Nation Dr. God Revival with Dave Holmes EXTRA STRENGTH Freedom Snatch Friends Have Boundries Get Married Girls, Girls, Girls! Hell Baby Hill Jones Husbands and Pimps iO All Stars iO ld School Kick Drum Decade Kind Stranger Lusty Horde Mr. Wrong Screening Neutrino No Beaks One Hour Apart Operocka Oscars Schmoscars PETF Pool Boy Red Bicyclette Rigor Tortoise Rohan Will Answer Spirit Fingers Stand Up Showcase The Clubhouse of Dickheads The Cool Table The Devil in the Details The Dollhouse The Duckie Boys The Ginger Man The Irish Mutts The Jerks Tigerpants Token Boy TuskegeeXperiment Ultimate X-ecution Welcome to Morningview Wicked Fairytales and Friends
Special Events
All Skate B.R.O.T.O.R. Basic Training Benderdangle BillyHawk Bobby Hot Stuff Bright and Shiny Burning Sensation Cat Fancy Cherry Clusterfun Comedy Lab Live Cuban B Cuban B's Improv Fiesta w/ Special Guests Daddy Warbucks Daily Double Days of Passion Devil May Care Donut Video Drug Puppy Duck, Duck, Goose Dutch Eddie Haskell's Resume Elaine Elevator English Speaking Moose Everyone Meet Everyone Extra Shelves Fancy Ladies Fooschwa Good Cookie Good Kneivel Granny's Squares Grass Angels Hammerspace: CSI Happy Accident(s) Happy Time Rainbow Bunny Squad Harold Level 5 Harristotle Hey Neighbor High Roller Anarchists I Hate Greg Castle Intermediate Forms - Level 6 Jeff the Zombie Jeff, Jess & Co Johnny Astronaut Jonzetown Josh Tariff's Match Game! JOTORIOUS Juggernaut Killer Whale L. Ron Jeremy La Granja Ladies' Choice Lawrence of Arkansas Lesbian Prom Lester Diamond LobsterDust Macob Reimack Martha Stewart Is Crying MASH Match Game Me/Us/Him Milk and Cookies Miss Porter's School For Girls Monkey Butler I Monkey Butler II Monkey Butler III Monte Carlo Method Monte Christo Mr. Falcon MR. KNACK Myriad Pyramid Nantucket Serenade O.U.T.e Ok, Intriguing: The Experimental Comedy Show Omelette Open Mic Stand Up Orpheus Roy Our Show Pickle Duck and Friends Pitter Patter Pretty Bird Pretty Bird Presents: Two For the Show Project 305 Q & A with Dasariski Quillenesschez Riverboat Gamblers Robert Downey Jr., Jr. Robot Uprising Rocky Mountain Way Sausage Fest Say Something Funny...B*tch! Science Fair Scorpions Serious V-neck Sheriff Hunter Slappable Soul Slave Leia Sleepy Kittens Small Talk SOCIAL SUNDAY Soda Jerk Songs, Smoke, and Schmidt STS STU Student Cage Match Sumi & Sarah Summer Camp TAB Tall Boys Tanks and Guns Tarotdactyl TBA Tentatively Marty The Adrian Quihuis Experience The Armandito The Barrel The Bechtold Konowal All-Star Explosion The Farm The Hoot Show The Irresponsible Girls Guide to Dating The Jackass Penguins The Micks The Remix The Situation Room The Social The Wild Third String Kicker Those Who Oppose Us Will Stand Knee Deep in the Blood of Their Children Top Twending Topics Trans Fat Orchestra Trust Us- Film Screening Turtle Beer Two Night Stand Victor's Secret Wes On Fire Wizard St. Cloud Wonder Jackson Zombie Defense Plan 1954 Cakewalk Dark Horse Popular Science The Administration The List Upstate