Upcoming

About Us

• We are the Shrimps Improv Comedy Society!
• We perform improv comedy!
• We teach free improv workshops!
• We're based in Sheffield!
• We welcome all types of people!
• !!!!!

FAQ

1. Do I have to be a student to join? No! Anyone is welcome!
2. Do I have to pay money for the workshops? No! Anyone is welcome!
3. Do I have to be funny? No! Anyone is welcome! We're all learning how to be funnier!
4. Do I have to perform at the workshops? No! Participation is voluntary; you can watch and have a laugh!
5. How long are the workshops? 2 hours!
6. What happens if I click on the shrimps at the bottom of the page? Nobody knows!

Contact

• @shrimpsimprov (Instagram)
• TheShrimps (Facebook)
• Students' Union Page
• Email: shrimpsimprov@sheffield.ac.uk

Shows

1. Nelson Mandela Auditorium,
   Students' Union
   Shrimply the best - A free show!
2. Nelson Mandela Auditorium,
   Students' Union
   Over-krill - Another free show!
3. Nelson Mandela Auditorium,
   Students' Union
   Prawn to Misbehave - Free!
4. Nelson Mandela Auditorium,
   Students' Union
   Prawn Funny - Free! Doors 7! Show Starts 7:30!
5. Nelson Mandela Auditorium,
   Students' Union
   Krillin' It - Feel the awesome power of another free show! Doors 7:00, show starts 7:30!
6. Nelson Mandela Auditorium,
   Students' Union
   A Cray in a Manger - Let comedy flow through your veins like so much cranberry sauce. For free! Doors 7:00, show starts 7:30!
7. Nelson Mandela Auditorium,
   Students' Union
   On the barbie! - Our first free Jam show of the year! Get involved in the games, or just come and have a laugh with us! Doors 7:00, show starts 7:30!

Workshops

1. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
   A free give-it-a-go workshop!
2. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
   Another free give-it-a-go workshop!
3. Gallery Room 3, Students' Union
   Another free workshop!
4. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
   Yet another free workshop!
5. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
   A free workshop, somehow more free than all the others!
6. Gallery Room 3, Students' Union
   Workshop, free!
7. Gallery Room 3, Students' Union
   Free workshop? Yes.
8. Gallery Room 3, Students' Union
   The words "workshop" and "free" have lost all meaning, yet here they are.
9. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
   One more free workshop!
10. View Room 4, Students' Union
    A free workshop like no other!
11. Gallery Room 3, Students' Union
    This workshop is like a bird in that it is free, but is unlike a bird in many other ways.
12. Cambridge Street Collective
    End of Year Meal! Come and celebrate with us!
13. Lecture Theatre 1, The Arts Tower
    Look ma, a free workshop!
14. Lecture Theatre 1, The Arts Tower
    A freeeeeeeeeeee workshop!
15. Lecture Theatre 1, The Arts Tower
    A workshop, with no money transferring hands!
16. View Room 6, Students' Union
    A funny (free) workshop! Funny how? We mean funny like we're clowns, we amuse you? We make you laugh? Funny how?
17. Gallery Room 3, Students' Union
    A workshop! Free!
18. Lecture Theatre 1, The Arts Tower
    A workshop at 100% discount!
19. View Room 6, Students' Union
    Improvised comedy, free workshop style.
20. Gallery Room 3, Students' Union
    A big, big, big, free, big workshop!
21. View Room 6, Students' Union
    I must go to the Free Improv Comedy Workshop. Free is the mind killer.
22. View Room 4, Students' Union
    Laugh! Laugh you fiends! Oh yeah, there's also a free workshop.
23. View Room 6, Students' Union
    workshop free workshop free workshop free workshop free
24. View Room 4, Students' Union
    A free workshop for smiling loudly with the mouth open!
25. Gallery Room 3, Students' Union
    Fork ho! Sea power!
26. Lecture Theatre 1, The Arts Tower
    A workshop for you! And you! And you!
27. Lecture Theatre 1, The Arts Tower
    Learn the ancient and mysterious arts of how to be funny, then forget them and fumble around in a free improv workshop for a bit.
28. Lecture Theatre 1, The Arts Tower
    Man eats banana. Leaves peel on ground. Shame man for sins. Come to free improv workshop.
29. View Room 6, Students' Union
    A workshop where the only price is your soul!
30. Gallery Room 3, Students' Union
    Yay! Three jerk hop!
31. Gallery Room 3, Students' Union
    A premium, high-quality, battery-powered, payment-negatory workshop!
32. Gallery Room 3, Students' Union
    Do not make eye-contact with the free improvised comedy workshop.
33. Gallery Room 3, Students' Union
    Critics are calling this workshop 'powerful', 'shocking' and 'an immediate classic'.
34. Gallery Room 3, Students' Union
    You can't spell Improv Comedy without the ability to think about the letters involved!
35. Gallery Room 3, Students' Union
    Want to scratch your itch for improvised comedy? Consult a doctor, and then attend our workshop!
36. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
    (8pm Start) Learn the hahahs, the heehees and maybe even the hoohoos in this Free Improvised Comedy Workshop!
37. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
    (8pm Start) I hear that beginner-friendly improvised comedy workshops are the most fun you can have without a punnet of strawberries.
38. Classroom 6, 38 Mappin Street
    Many tales are told of Classroom 6, 38 Mappin Street. None of them pretty. One such tale began with an unassuming improv workshop...
39. View Room 5, Students' Union
    You wake in a cold sweat. Twitching in the corner of the room, it stares through you. It's a Sheffield-based improvised comedy workshop.
40. View Room 5, Students' Union
    Bad news; great shoes. What have you got to lose? Come improvise! You better be in Sheffield though, as that's where we are!
41. View Room 6, Students' Union
    Laugh fizz lark ah barks off chalk oh lets. Yah knave her no watch yaw gunner kit!
42. View Room 6, Students' Union
    Improvised comedy in Sheffield?! At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within your kitchen? ...Yes!
43. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
    (8pm Start) They said it couldn't be done, and it wasn't, but if it had, it might've looked something like this free improv comedy workshop in the Sheffield SU.
44. View Room 4, Students' Union
    Workshop! Comedy! Improvised! Free! Sheffield!
45. View Room 4, Students' Union
    In darkest Sheffield, an improv comedy workshop lies waiting; biding its time.
46. View Room 4, Students' Union
    Sheffield residents are reporting a surge in jokes as free improvised comedy workshops continue to spread. More at 11.
47. View Room 4, Students' Union
    Polish your comedy, improve your improv, bash your funny bone, Sheffield your field chef, free your workshop and whatever you do, don't look away from the orb.
48. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
    We return, like a swarm of bees back to the bear's cave. Our vengeance will be improvised. Our stings will be comedy. We'll do that waggle dance thing.
49. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
    This is a description of a free Improvised Comedy Workshop event. This is a joke after that description. If you are permitted to laugh, please do so now.
50. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
    Gather for free with friends to laugh! That's it? Bah! Back in my day we used to pay to sit quietly in a dark room with a can of dirty water and a bag of mice. What are these times coming to, eh?
51. Gallery Room 3, Students' Union
    Fancy giving improvised comedy a go? Or just wanna have a laugh? Come along to our give-it-a-go workshop! Like always, it's totally free!
52. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
    Another free, beginner-friendly, give-it-a-go workshop, where we show you the ropes of improv comedy, play some fun games and have a laugh!
53. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
    IMPROV COMEDY WORKSHOP. SHEFFIELD STUDENTS UNION. FREE. CAPS LOCK STUCK. SEND HELP.
54. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
    For free you say? A workshop? Comedy? Entirely improvised? Sheffield?
55. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
    Just a tiny little crumb of free improvised comedy workshop. Surely you have room for this?
56. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
    This week we're all going to pretend this is a free improvised comedy workshop happening in the Sheffield University Students' Union.
57. Gallery Room 2, Students' Union
    Prepare yourselves for the Improv Comedy Workshop to end all Improv Comedy Workshops. This is the benchmark, against which all future comedy will be judged.

Past Glories

We here at the Sheffield Improv Comedy Society would like to take a moment to pay tribute to the brave workshops and shows of the past. Please respectfully chortle.