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 found a strong following in certain niche markets, notably financial modeling, although it was not a commercial success in comparison to mainstream products like Lotus 1-2-3 or Microsoft Excel.

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.

Improv comedy techniques have also been used in television and stand-up comedy, in hit shows such as the recent HBO television show Curb Your Enthusiasm created by Larry David, the UK Channel 4 and ABC television series Whose Line Is It Anyway ( and its spinoffs Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza ), Nick Cannon's improv comedy show Wild ' N Out, and Thank God You're Here.

In March of 1987, Del mounted his first scripted show created by members of Close and Charna Halpern's Improv Olympics, from a scenario by Close entitled " Honor Finnegan vs. the Brain of the Galaxy ," at CrossCurrents in Chicago.

Improv Festival, or Fracas !, is an improvisational theatre festival created and hosted by Second Nature, and held annually at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles since 2004.

Improv Everywhere has stated that they do not identify their work with the term flash mob, in part because their site was created two years prior to the flash mob trend.

From the 1990s onwards a growing number of European Improv groups have been set up specifically to explore the possibilities offered by the use of the abstract in improvised performance, including dance, movement, sound, music, mask work, lighting, and so on.

In the United States, the Improv Olympics were later produced by Charna Halpern under the name " ImprovOlympic " and now as " IO "; IO operates training centers and theaters in Chicago and Los Angeles.

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.

With the opening of the original Improv by Budd Friedman in 1963, the club became a hangout for singers to perform but quickly attracted comedians, as well, turning it into the reigning comedy club of its time.

* Online recordings of Treatise by the Seattle Improv Meeting

Fullman has presented numerous lectures on her work including: the Songlines series, Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College ; and Improv: 21 a lecture series presented by Rova: Arts, San Francisco.

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.

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.

During the 1990s, a number of research projects began to appear, such as the Oz Project led by Dr. Joseph Bates and Carnegie-Mellon University, the Software Agents group at MIT, the Improv Project led by Ken Perlin at New York University, and the Virtual Theater group at Stanford, led by Dr. Barbara Hayes-Roth.

During that time, UCB were regular guests on stage at the New Variety hosted by the Chicago Improv comedy club.

While taking acting classes during off-times and burning the midnight oil in the pursuit of a new career as a novelist, Wirtz also realized a lifelong ambition to be a comedian by studying and performing at Hollywood's Groundlings Improv Theater, to eventually take his first steps onto the stages of Hollywood's comedy clubs, including The Comedy Store and The Improv.

Viola Spolin eventually handed both the children's show and the improv classes over to Forsberg, who continued teaching Spolin's work at the Second City from the mid-1960s on, leading to the creation of Forsberg's own improv school, Players Workshop in 1971, as well as the Improv Olympic and the Second City Training Center in the 1980s, all of which were based on Spolin's work.

Spolin can probably be considered the American Grandmother of Improv.

Spaghetti Jam performed Harolds while also turning Spolin games and Harold techniques into stand-alone performance pieces ... i. e. Short-Form Improv.

She also is a member of the Spolin Players Improv comedy troupe and acts as a drama and theater coach and teacher in Pacific Palisades, CA for various acting studios including Theatre Palisades.

In 1993, at the time when the Windows version of Improv appeared, Microsoft Excel 5 was already on the market with a new functionality called a “ PivotTable ”.

The college was the scene of early experiments in Improv Theatre when Keith Johnstone brought his troupe from the Royal Court Theatre Studio ( later to become the Theatre Machine ) to demonstrate his ideas to his Contemporary Theatre class.

Since the age of 12, Walsh has been working as a professional actor and dabbled in sketches and stand-up comedy, with numerous TV appearances and a gold medal win at the 2000 Improv Games in Quebec as a member of the " 8 People " troupe.

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

After his first divorce, Belzer relocated to New York City, moved in with singer Shelley Ackerman, and began working as a stand-up comic at Pips, The Improv, and Catch a Rising Star.