Over the next five years, LaMarche's career would gradually progress, playing comedy clubs all over the U. S., with several appearances on Merv Griffin and " An Evening At The Improv ", but in spite of such interest, LaMarche always believed that, while his impersonations and stage presence were strong, he needed to develop funnier comedy material.

The following is a list of current Improv locations:

Lotus introduced what is likely the most successful example, Lotus Improv, which saw some commercial success, notably in the financial world where its powerful data mining capabilities remain well respected to this day.

Like Improv, Quantrix has been adopted primarily by the financial industry, where its ability to manipulate various “ categories ” or " dimensions " makes it easy to view forecasts, budgets, risk analysis, financial projections and all types of complex data modeling.

* Javelin, a multi-dimensional spreadsheet / modeling program which may have influenced the design of Improv

This period also saw the release of Manuscript, a word processor, Lotus Agenda, an innovative personal information manager ( PIM ), which flopped, and Improv, a groundbreaking modeling package ( and spreadsheet ) for the NeXT platform.

In March 1994, Lotus decided to attack this problem by re-positioning Improv as an add-in for 1-2-3, although the programs had nothing in common other than Improv's ability to read data in 1-2-3 files.

Improv was created by Viola Spolin when working with Neva Boyd at a Hull House in Chicago, Illinois.

Improv was created on the realization that adults do not play games.

" Improv Comedy " was born.

Also Altsys Virtuoso, version 2 of which was ported to Mac OS and Windows to become Macromedia FreeHand version 4, the modern " Notebook " interface for Mathematica, and the advanced spreadsheet Lotus Improv.

Lotus Improv was a spreadsheet program from Lotus Development released in 1991 for the NeXTSTEP platform and then for Windows 3. 1 in 1993.

Improv was an attempt to re-define the way a spreadsheet program should work, in order to ease the building of new spreadsheets or modifying existing ones.

Improv for NeXT was released in February 1991, resulting in " truckloads " of flowers from Jobs.

Lotus Improv for Windows v2. 0 ( there was no 1. 0 ) shipped in May 1993, running on Windows 3. 1.

Quantrix almost suffered the same fate as Improv when the company was purchased by Sun Microsystems and ( eventually ) turned into a developer of Java applications.

The core of what would become Improv was to separate the concepts of data, views of the data, and formulas into three portions.

was released September 9, 2008 and contains material recorded at The Improv in Ontario, California in January 2005.

He was a frequent featured performer on An Evening at the Improv and Caroline's Comedy Hour.

It was during this time that Patrick was studying how the game of " Improv " worked.

The LA Improv was the original site for the A & E Network television series An Evening at the Improv, which ran from 1982 until 1996, and was produced by Larry O ' Daly, Created by Larry O ' Daly and Barbara Hosie-O ' Daly, with Budd Friedman as a warm-up host.

The Improv was the place to see Richard Pryor, Robert Klein, Steve Landesberg, Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Jay Leno, and others when they were just starting out.

Comedian Eddie Murphy was a regular at The Comic Strip in New York City, but in California performed at the Improv when he was only 15 years old, Jeremy Ruder at 18, and Jim Carrey at 19.

The film was shown at several national improv festivals, including the 2004 Chicago Improv Festival, the 2004 Phoenix Improv Festival, the 2002 Del Close Marathon in New York City, and the 2006 LA Improv Festival.

Other commercial programs were released for NeXT computers, including the Lotus Improv spreadsheet program and Mathematica.

KCVI has a long and decorated history of competing in the Canadian Improv Games and is well known nationally for its success and great performances.

Embedded VLIW products are available from several vendors, including the FR-V from Fujitsu, the BSP15 / 16 from Pixelworks, the ST231 from STMicroelectronics, the TriMedia from NXP, the CEVA-X DSP from CEVA, the Jazz DSP from Improv Systems, and Silicon Hive.

Improv also flopped, and none of these products made a significant impact on the market.

Lighthouse went on to develop and acquire more software products, and marketed an office suite for NeXTSTEP, which included ParaSheet ( a traditional spreadsheet ), Quantrix ( a spreadsheet program based on Lotus Improv ), Diagram !, TaskMaster ( a project management program ), WetPaint ( an image editing / retouching program ) and Concurrence ( a presentation program ).

Flash mob activities share some ideas with Cacophony, as well as groups like Improv Everywhere and movements like Discordianism.

In the fall of 2005, Bravo showed a one-hour special of ASSSSCAT Improv with guest stars like Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, and Andy Richter.

While other dedicated comedy theaters like Chicago City Limits and Gotham City Improv decreased their shows or lost their spaces due to low attendance and dwindling profits, UCB grew and flourished.

Teams that performed the classic Harold improv format, like Mother Mother ( Improv ), Respecto Montalban, and The Swarm, developed their own forms and helped the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre become the place for great, cutting-edge comedy.

Lotus Improv on Windows 2000 ( click for an enlarged view ).

Lotus ' sales and marketing teams, well versed in selling 1-2-3, did not know how to sell Improv into the market, so they simply didn't, selling the well known and understood 1-2-3.

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* Lotus Improv, a spreadsheet program

* Lotus Improv

Quantrix is a spreadsheet program modeled after the pioneering Lotus Improv, and introduced by Lighthouse Design for NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP in the early ' 90s when Lotus stopped selling Improv.

* Lotus Improv

While working on a concept for a new program which would eventually become Lotus Improv, Salas realized that spreadsheets have patterns of data.

Lotus Development released Improv in 1991 on the NeXT platform.