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Comedy Corner is part of the University Activities Board, which is responsible for scheduling and funding all events at the University of Arizona. Comedy Corner itself puts on an annual comedy festival, the S.I.C.K. Festival. S.I.C.K. is an Acronym for "Southwest Intergalactic Comedy Kermis ." The festival began in 1992 and is typically a showcase for Arizona college comedy groups, though occasionally has brought in professional talent to perform, such as comedians David Cross in 2001 and Lewis Black in 2003. Comedy Corner was the only comedy group on the University of Arizona campus until October of 1997, when the improv comedy group the Charles Darwin Experience, had its first show and had a subsequent rise in popularity. What followed was a surge in comedy group founding at the university, starting with the sketch/improv group Ambidextrous Armada in 1999 (defunct), the sketch comedy group Mechanically Separated Chicken in 2001 (defunct), the improv group New Kevin in 2002, and the improv group Street-Prov Theatre Collective (The S-PTC is not a College troupe they are an anarcho-collective arthouse open to the public) in 2005. Despite the surge in the number of comedy groups, Comedy Corner remains as the de-facto sketch group on campus, with many new students coming into the group every school year through an audition process. Prospective members can audition as writers, performers or both. The audition process changes as group membership changes, but there are some consistencies in the process in recent years: typically those who audition as writers submit samples of sketches, which are then read by all current members of the group and a majority vote decides if the prospective member becomes a writer. Those who audition as a performer typically cold-read one or two sketches aloud and do one or two improv games. They are evaluated by the members of the group present in the audition and a majority vote decides if the prospective member becomes a performer. Comedy Corner performs regularly on fridays starting at noon in the Cellar, located at the bottom level of the University of Arizona's Student Union building. Comedy Corner website |
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