The Big Book of Improv
After being tucked away for decades, "The Big Book of Improv" has been tracked down and it has been sending Montreal's finest improvisers through a loop with its age-old challenges!
Featuring Mile End Improv's Foundations Program Players!
Word Around Town
Two teams of improvisers, with the help of host James McGee, give you a slice of life of the many inhabitants of a town completely made up on the spot.
THE FEST OF THE FEST
Saturday, June 14 at 8:30pm / Easy Action
FEST OF THE FEST presents EASY ACTION at the 2025 St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival!
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Saturday, June 14 at 10:00pm / After Hours
While the fest gets its beauty sleep, we're keeping the comedy going with AFTER HOURS. The best part? This show is PAY WHAT YOU CAN! A buck? Sure. Thirty cents? Why not? A crisp hundred dollar bill? YES PLEASE.
THE FEST OF THE FEST
Frank Mythic presents: The Phantom Files
Friday, June 13 at 8:30pm
FEST OF THE FEST presents The Phantom Files at the 2025 St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival!
Two experts in the supernatural improvise spine tingling mysteries never before seen for your mortal eyes.
Using a series of slides they've never seen before as backgrounds to scenes, they weave together the most mind bending narratives that are worthy of a Stephen King bestseller.
THE FEST OF THE FEST
The Dirty Thirty
Thursday, June 12 at 8:30pm
FEST OF THE FEST presents The Dirty Thirty at the 2025 St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival!
Our cast will embark on an exciting sprint to achieve one of improv’s most elusive accolades – completing THE DIRTY THIRTY!
They will have 60 minutes to perform 30 scenes before the clock runs out, with each scene ranging from weird to wild. Will they rise to the challenge? One thing is for sure...
Things are going to get dirty.
THE FEST OF THE FEST
Video Vortex
Saturday, June 7 at 8:30pm
FEST OF THE FEST presents Video Vortex at the 2025 St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival!
From the people who brought you FILMS IN FOCUS, a brand new cinematic journey, reaching deep inside the video cassette vault for the titles you ignored, disregarded or were just too scared to rent!
VIDEO VORTEX brings a series of lesser known B, C and D films to life!
THE FEST OF THE FEST
Friday, June 6, 2025 / 8:30PM
Watch as these mega-powers take to the stage in a one night, single elimination tournament to determine who will raise the championship in the air!
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Friday, June 6, 2025 / 10PM
Every night, around 9:30pm(ish) from June 5 through June 14, the Fest of the Fest goes to bed. While the fest gets its beauty sleep, we're keeping the comedy going with AFTER HOURS.
THE FEST OF THE FEST
Hell Yeah! Fuck No!
Thursday, June 5 at 8:30pm
FEST OF THE FEST presents Hell Yeah! Fuck No! at the 2025 St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival!
Have you ever been to an improv show and wished that you could use swears like the "H" word, or even worse, the "F" word?
WELL, YOU CAN ON JUNE 5 AT 8:30PM!
You have the final say on which scenes continue with a HELL YEAH, and which are thrown into the great comedy trash heap with a FUCK NO.
Word Around Town
Two teams of improvisers with the help of host James Mcgee, give you a slice of life of the many inhabitants of a town completely made up on the spot.
NIGHT SLIME SKETCH SHOW 11
There are sketch shows and then there is NIGHT SLIME!
Join us for a night full of laffs and wild weirdness at Theatre VME / Mile End Improv!
10-12 funny people get together a few times during the week to write and rehearse a full hour of sketch comedy... It's a wild night out at THEATRE VME, your home for killer comedy in Montreal's Mile End, so grab your friends and come enjoy a night of laughter like absolutely nothing else in the city, don't miss out on the Night Slime Sketch Show 11!
EASY ACTION
EASY ACTION is coming to Theatre VME on Friday May 2nd!
EASY ACTION is an improvised tale created in the moment by Brent Skagford and Marc Rowland. They combine precise physical work, child-like play and high emotional stakes to create stories to delight any audience.
FEVER DREAM
Time bends, reality shifts, and nothing is quite what it seems...
Join us for Fever Dream: A Non-Linear Journey Through Time—an improvised, reality-warping odyssey where past, present, and future collide in the most unexpected of ways. A grand kaleidoscope of movement, texture, sound and storytelling—this is improv like you’ve never seen before.
Step into an immersive improvised dreamscape for a truly surreal theatrical event!
Created & Produced by Hannah Cartmel, Danielle Davidson, Sarah Ellis, Cathy Fagan, and Monika Schneider
FEVER DREAM
Time bends, reality shifts, and nothing is quite what it seems...
Join us for Fever Dream: A Non-Linear Journey Through Time—an improvised, reality-warping odyssey where past, present, and future collide in the most unexpected of ways. A grand kaleidoscope of movement, texture, sound and storytelling—this is improv like you’ve never seen before.
Step into an immersive improvised dreamscape for a truly surreal theatrical event!
Created & Produced by Hannah Cartmel, Danielle Davidson, Sarah Ellis, Cathy Fagan, and Monika Schneider
CONFESSIONS
Confessions is a scandalous improv show inspired by your anonymous secrets!
What's something you want to get off your chest? Tell us a secret, which we'll use to inspire the scenes in the show.
Word Around Town
Two teams of improvisers with the help of host James Mcgee, give you a slice of life of the many inhabitants of a town completely made up on the spot.
EASY ACTION
EASY ACTION is coming to Theatre VME on Friday April 4th!
EASY ACTION is an improvised tale created in the moment by Brent Skagford and Marc Rowland. They combine precise physical work, child-like play and high emotional stakes to create stories to delight any audience.
At Home with James presents DEMOLITION DERBY
Let's face it, there have been a lot of funny comedians that have graced the At Home with James screen over the past five years.
Now it's time to find out which are truly funny, and which are going to get flushed in the human toilet and sent to a shit pit.
Word Around Town
Two teams of improvisers with the help of host James Mcgee, give you a slice of life of the many inhabitants of a town completely made up on the spot.
MOJO COMEDY CO. PRESENTS: BATTLE OF THE IMPROV STARS
The Battle is back, baby! Montreal's funniest performers slug it out in Mile End. Who will come out on top?
With a rotating cast of performers, each show is a unique (and hilarious) experience. Don't you dare miss it.
produced by Mojo Comedy Co. (linktr.ee/mojocomedyco)
Sloppy Sunday Sketch Show
One Hit Wonders presents the third edition of Sloppy Sunday, a sketch comedy show featuring Montreal's finest up-and-coming idiots - Valentine's Day edition (in March)!
Why so late? Well love should be celebrated all year round... and also, we had to reschedule due to the snowstorm. Oops!
Join us for a night of laughs, chaos, and questionable romance.
See you there, gorgeous!