The Chinese ambassador in the Netherlands asks Boom Chicago to remove the video due to its political content. "SpongeBob SquarePants in China" receives more than 22 million views on YouTube in a year, making it the number one most viewed "film and animation" YouTube video worldwide (as of April, 2009). Highly Dubious News is nominated for a mobile content award at MIPCOM, the television conference in Cannes.
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The Unlikely Fan (Brendan Hunt, Matt Chapman), a daily World Cup video series was featured on MSN.Ģ007: Comedy Central News, begins as a daily show on Comedy Central Netherlands and runs for 75 episodes.
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They have created an entirely new form of theater call it digital comedy."įirst internet and mobile shows Full Frontal News ( Greg Shapiro and Becky Nelson) and Slacker Fantasy Football (Michael Orton-Toliver, Brian Jack, Matt Chapman). We are once again grateful that decided to make Amsterdam their home." Peter de Bie and Francisco van Jole, TROS radio: "People are saying this is the best Boom Chicago show ever, and we would agree." Henk van Gelder, NRC Handelsblad: "Sharp and interactive. Key meets Peele here.Ģ004: Boom Chicago Video Productions launches after the worldwide success of the Florida Voting Machine Video, where an American citizen tries to vote for Kerry, but the rigged machine only allows him to vote for George Bush.Ģ006: Me, MySpace and iPod opens to best reviews to date. This was the first (and only) time a visiting comedy group plays on Second City's mainstage. The mainstage casts of The Second City and Boom Chicago perform on each other's stages in each other's cities. Soon green screen studios and live internet, make Boom Chicago an early pioneer with technology in a comedy show.Ģ002: Comedy Swap with The Second City in Chicago. Cameras are fitted in the theater (and the Leidseplein outside). Boom Chicago renovates the theater, adds a kitchen, bar, and rock show sound and lighting.Ģ000: Hires first video director, Jamie Wright, and introduces multimedia to the shows. Saskia Maas joins the company.ġ994: Moves to Studio 100 (later the Sugar Factory, now Lovlee) on Lijnbaansgracht 238, 180 seats.ġ997: Moves into the 270 seat Leidseplein Theater, the theater where Dutch legends Wim Kan, Wim Sonneveld and Toon Hermans began in the 1930s. The group is currently owned by Moskos, Rosenfeld and Saskia Maas.ġ993: Andrew Moskos, Pep Rosenfeld and Ken Schaefle open Boom Chicago at the Iboya, Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 41, 85 seats.
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They were the creative forces behind Comedy Central News (CCN), a news show on the Dutch Comedy Central TV for two seasons. And it is Slightly Annoying used AI to program a robot to improvise with the cast on stage. Their unique mixing of comedy styles combined with technology has been popular with audiences and critics alike. The venue with three theaters also houses Boom Chicago for Business and their training arm, the Boom Chicago Academy.īoom Chicago addresses Dutch, American and world social and political issues like privacy, the role of technology, Europe, the extreme right, Pim Fortuyn, 9/11, social media and the gig economy.
Today the group performs their own shows and hosts outside productions at the Rozentheater.
In 2013, the comedy show moved to their more spacious home on the Rozengracht, while the Chicago Social Club remains at the Leidseplein.
In 1998, they took over and restored the Leidseplein Theater in the city's theater and club district. In 1994, they moved from the Iboya on the Korte Leidsedwarsstraat to the Lijnbaansgracht in the space that later became the Sugar Factory and today Lovelee. The group was founded in 1993 by Americans Andrew Moskos, Pep Rosenfeld and Ken Schaefle, who named it after their hometown and the home of improvisation. Boom Chicago's theater is lit up blue for the 2021 Global Autism Awareness Dayīoom Chicago is an international creative group, based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, that writes and performs sketch and improvisational comedy at the Rozentheater.
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