The Reviews Are In: Bassprov is a Hit!

Critics Choice - Chicago Reader

Nichols & May Award for Comedy Duo of the Year - Chicago Improv Festival

Chicago's Best Comedy Group - Bass Ale Comedy Competition

Best Duo Performance; Best in Festival - Miami Improv Festival

"Perhaps the best thing about the Lowell Comedy Festival is the chance to see shows like Chicago's Bassprov. "
-- The Boston Globe, September, 2007

"Chicago's Joe Bill and Mark Sutton brought their fishing-buddy alter egos Earl and Donny to town for the Toronto Improv Festival, which I hope becomes an annual event. They reeled us in with their casual storytelling, kept us hooked with the subtle shifts in power and mood between the well-defined characters and let us go with a perfectly satisfying conclusion suggested earlier by the audience. I'd watch these guys fish any time... Joe Bill's Earl and Mark Sutton's Donny, buddies who fish for bass and naturally, ingenuously get around to talking about the audience's two suggestions."
-- Glenn Sumi, NOW Toronto, ranked Bassprov as #4 in the Top Ten Comedy Shows of 2002

"Not only was the Chicago-bred comedy Bassprov one of the best shows to hit an Orlando stage all last year, it contained one of the most flawlessly realized lines of dialogue one could hope to encounter in any medium."
--Steve Schneider, Orlando Weekly

"The Bassprov show at the CIF Showcase was brilliantly performed and hilarious. Mark Sutton and Joe Bill create a one-act show that drew its often-overwhelming humor from their time-tested chemistry and their unflinching honesty... Their dedication to and obvious affection for their characters obviated the condescension and simplicity that have been so long synonymous with redneck humor... Their ability to deadpan while producing such potent comedy and being surrounded by gales of laughter kept the audience locked squarely on their cracked worldview, and I suspect that there was neither a dry eye nor an unimpressed mind in the house when they were done."
-- Matthew Fisher, ImprovReview.com

"What's more improvisational than sitting around drinking cheap ass beer and trying to outsmart a fish?... Bassprov is effortlessly brilliant."
-- Ink 19 Magazine, Orlando

"I was amazed by both the simplicity and the complexity of their performances. They had a chemistry that only comes from working together for a long time... Go see this show."
-- Greg Childers, Memphis Comedy Festival

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