Well, we've been doing Tap Room shows for three months now, and your response has been clear: there's nothing else you'd rather do on the third Thursday of the month enjoy great adult beverages and watch us make stuff up. So we're doing it again: Clown Box: On Tap, our new show where you choose the games, will be performed again this Thursday, June 18 at 8:00 PM at the Tap Room! If you've only ever seen us at the Lincoln Center, you really need to check us out at the Tap Room because it's, as Monty Python would say, "something completely different!" So rather than re-planting your garden for the third time in two weeks, come support your favorite clowns and a great local business!

If you're a student, it's time to celebrate. Finals week is over. You've survived another semester.

If you're not a student, it's time to celebrate. The semester is over. Traffic patterns should soon return to normal.

And what better way to relax now than to kick back at the Tap Room @ Catalyst with a fine adult beverage and watch your favorite improv group ham it up? Show starts at 8:00 on Thursday, May 21st. Cover is a measly $5.00, and as always, with our Clown Box: On Tap! show, you get to pick the games you want to see! So come join us for a good drink, a great show, and a fantastic start to the summer!

So this is how it ends, huh? Sure, today everything is dandy, but in just a very short time (May 7th at 8:00 PM, in fact), swine flu will be everywhere, and there will be no joy left in the world. Absolutely none. Except for one place: The Lincoln Center. Join us in our quarantined bunker, safe from the virulent virus, as we make light of the death and disease outside the doors. Just $5 guarantees you a spot as one of the last surviving specimens of the human race because for this month only, we have a money-back guarantee: if you contract swine flu at our show, you will receive back the full price of admission. On a related note, if you bring swine flu into our safe-zone, we'll sue you into oblivion. Actually, we'll all be headed there regardless, so it won't matter much, but boy will we make you feel guilty as we refuse to share our rations with you.

And in case you doubt our ability to lift your spirits in the face of impending doom, here's a clip from last month's show.

We know how it is. Tax day has come, and Uncle Sam took all your money. Everything except your last pair of Lincolns, two lonely $5 bills that remain in your wallet, trying to encourage you that life will get better. And it will. On Thursday, April 16th at 8:00 PM. Because at that time, you'll be able to exchange one of those bills for an hour and a half of the best live entertainment in town to raise your spirits, and the other one for one of the best beers or wines available in town to help you forget about your newly-acquired partial ownership of General Motors.

So come to The Tap Room at Catalyst (near Shields and Horsetooth) and catch Clown Box: On Tap, our new show where you tell us what games you want to see. And we promise, we won't make you fill out any more forms.

Thirteen years ago, Google didn't exist, Bill Clinton was president, and Denver had never won a Super Bowl. And Clown Box performed their first show.

So on this glorious occasion, Thursday, April 2nd at 8:00 PM at the Lincoln Center, Clown Box will commemorate our thirteenth anniversary by unveiling our new show, Triple Threat: Improv, Sketch and Musical Comedy for the Refined Pallet. In addition to the improv games you know and love, we'll also be performing several sketches, and we're proud to welcome our musical guest, Resonant RAMblings, CSU's very own a cappella group. As always, tickets are $5.00 (That little for live entertainment in this town? Seriously? Yeah, seriously!), and don't forget your ID, 'cause the bar is happy to serve you a wide array of beverages to enjoy along with the show.

Thanks for thirteen great years, Fort Collins!

Good news for those of you who have been dying to see us but the Lincoln Center has a restraining order against you because of a little incident with an armadillo, a wood chipper, and a wedding reception: the Clown Box will be performing Thursday, March 19th at The Tap Room at Catalyst. We'll be running our new show, Clown Box: On Tap, where you, the audience, will choose the set list by telling us what games you want to see! While you're there, you can also enjoy quite possibly the single best beer and wine list in northern Colorado. The Tap Room has an amazing array of unique and hard-to-find beers and wines from around the world as well as some Colorado favorites. Plus, it's been proven that we're 6.4% funnier once you've knocked one back.

And without Ryan Seacrest. You know what bugs me about American Idol? It's not vicious enough. There are contestants that you just hate with a passion that could fuel a thousand wars, but the only thing you can do about it is try to channel your rage into voting for everybody else. It's tiresome, tedious, ineffective, and really has no level of satisfaction at all. So little that nobody even really does it. If I ran Fox, I'd let you vote on who to get rid of rather than who to keep. I might feed them to alligators after that, too, but that's more of an afterthought. But I don't run Fox. I run Clown Box. We have a dramatically smaller budget and can't afford a bazillion phone lines and an alligator tank. But in order to give you all an outlet for your hate, we're running our hit show Survivor again this month, where after each scene, you have the opportunity to tell one of us how much you hate us by voting us out of the show. So bring all your pent-up hate to the Lincoln Center on Thursday, March 5 at 8:00 PM and show Clown Box some tough love by telling us you never want to see us again.

Thursday night, February 5th, marks the return of two great and glorious things.

First, our hit show, Clown Box: Survivor returns. Watch as seven improvisers battle to outplay, outfunny, and outlast each other in a no-holds barred battle royale where you, the audience, decide who stays and who goes.

Secondly, the Clown Box will be returning to it's normal schedule. That's right, for the entirety of 2009, there will be a Clown Box show the first Thursday of every month! No longer will you be a slave to Facebook and/or Remi to know when these glorious laugh-fests will take place. Instead, you can simply ask yourself two questions:

• Is it Thursday?*
• Has it already been Thursday this month?

And lastly, this show will also welcome the start of something new and awesome. We are now offering for the first time ever the Clown Box Season Pass. For $35, you get admittance to all 2009 Clown Box Shows.** That's like $1.95/hr. of live entertainment. Fun as good as ours is usually $1.95/minute. Oh yeah. I went there.

So, be a part of something big. Come to the show Thursday, 8:00 PM at the Lincoln Center!

*If you need help with the first question, click here to narrow it down a little.

**That's all shows in the Year of Our Lord 2009, not over two thousand Clown Box shows. That'd be an insane value. This is just a Really Good Deal. Besides, it'd take us a really long time to do over two thousand shows, and we do have families that like to see us sometimes.