Kamikaze: One Man, Fifteen Characters - All Laughs
Purple Onion (San Francisco, CA)
Rated 1.3 by 3 members who went.
Comedic improviser Matt Kaye brings his one-man improv show, Kamikaze, to the Purple Onion. Using audience suggestions, Kaye will bring to life a cast of 12-15 characters in scenes that he makes up on the spot. The Chicago Reader describes Kaye's work as, "Funny, weird, hilarious!"
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Quotes & Highlights
- "Gifted physical comedian, book smarts and chemistry... a good job of exploiting silence...surrealistic mime sequences...flashes of brilliance." --Chicago Reader
- "Kaye has charm, a knack for off-the-wall absurdities, a gift for physical comedy and a skill for dialects...hilarious." --LA Weekly
- "A zippy brain...marvelously droll." --Backstage West
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<p>Matt Kaye has been improvising for 13 years. He studied and performed in Chicago at The Second City, The Annoyance Theatre, Improv Olympic, WNEP Theatre, The Chicago Improv Festival (performer and teacher) and Comedy Sportz, where he was Artistic Director. His two-person improv show with Jen Ellison, "My Grandma's A Fat Whore In Jersey," was named one of the Top 5 Shows of the Year by New City in Chicago.</p>
<p>In L.A., Matt has performed at Improv Olympic, Comedy Sportz, ACME Theatre with LA Weekly's Comedy Pick-of-the Week "The Southpaw Sam McClowski Show," the L.A. Improv Festival, the Hudson Mainstage Theatre, The MET Theatre, and the Comedy Central Workspace. He has performed stand-up at The Comedy Store, The Improv - Area 51, and more.
Matt's one-man show "She Took Everything!" debuted at The Second City and had a full-run at The National Comedy Theatre. He is co-founder of The Fucking Bastards, who, according to LA Weekly "... are fucking funny." They spent the better part of three years terrorizing L.A. at Improv Olympic and ACME.</p>
<p>Matt has done some films that you may have seen, but probably not. However, he's been called "Funny, weird, hilarious" by The Chicago Reader and has "charm, a knack for off-the-wall absurdities, a gift for physical comedy and a skill for dialects, hilarious" according to LA Weekly.</p>
