“The first rule of improvisation is AGREE. Always agree and SAY YES.”
–Tina Fey
“Yes, And” is an online community where people create and watch improv comedy through real-time chat. Users, who can be anyone from career comedians to comedic novices, join a scene and get paired randomly with another performer to create funny hijinks on the fly.
Each performer is given a character, and the pair is given a prompt to get them started. Ten seconds after seeing the prompt and their characters, the performers are thrown into a custom chat room where other users can observe the improv scene in progress, show their “laughs” by tapping the screen. Since everyone’s screen updates instantly, everyone sees the same line at the same time, and feedback for a good punch line is immediate. When the performers decide that the scene has ended, the scene is saved for anyone to view and rate, making “Yes, And” a growing repository of funny sketches.
Come and have some fun, and stay tuned for upcoming social features!