Improv Team Name Generator

Deadpan, punny names for improv teams and troupes

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Pick an improv team name from 500 ideas for house teams, indie teams and college troupes: vocabulary puns like Yes And Then Some and Harold's Roommate, deadpan names like Damp Cardigan and The Subcommittee, suggestion jokes like Somebody Said Pineapple, and campus names like The Undeclared Majors.

About improv team names

Improv names have a house style of their own. Long-form teams, especially the ones a theater puts together from its classes, tend to pick something short, flat and slightly odd: an object, a job title or a phrase that sounds official and means nothing. The joke is in the deadpan, so the list is full of names like Damp Cardigan, Soup Receipt, The Subcommittee and A Small Regional Bank.

The second big family is the in-joke. Improv has its own vocabulary: 'yes, and', the Harold (a long-form structure), sweep edits and tag-outs, object work, callbacks, group mind. Improv group names such as Yes And Then Some, Harold's Roommate, Sweep Dreams and Object Work Permit tell other improvisers you know the form, and still read as wordplay to everyone else. Suggestion names (Somebody Said Pineapple, Non-Geographical Location) do the same with the moment every show begins.

The rest of the list follows where and how a group performs. College troupes get campus names such as The Undeclared Majors and Midterm Crisis, and there are names made of whole sentences, first names and show-night details like Two Chairs and a Dream. Everything is clean enough for a school stage.

How to choose improv team names

  • Say it the way a host will. 'Please welcome Damp Cardigan!' has to work out loud, from a stage, to a room that has never seen the name written down.
  • Decide who the joke is for. Vocabulary puns like Half a Harold land with improvisers, and deadpan names like The Zoning Board land with anyone. A group that plays for general audiences is usually better off with the second kind.
  • Short wins on a lineup card. Theaters list four or five teams a night, so one to three words fits a poster, a chalkboard and a social media handle.
  • Let the name set a tone, not a format. A name that promises a western or a musical ties you to it every show, while an odd neutral name such as Porch Light leaves the form open.
  • Search your city and your campus first. Thousands of teams exist and the obvious puns get reused, so look at local theater lineups and festival programs before you print shirts.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a good improv team name?

It is short, easy to say from a stage and a little unexpected. Many teams go deadpan with an object or an official-sounding phrase, such as Carpet Sample or The Steering Committee, and others pun on improv terms, such as Yes And Counting. Either works as long as the host can announce it without explaining it.

What are some improv names for a college group?

Campus life gives you plenty: The Undeclared Majors, Office Hours, Meal Plan B, Fifth Year Seniors and Pass/Fail are all on the list. College troupes also do well with sentence names like My Mom Thinks We're Funny, which read well on a flyer in a dining hall.

Is this for teams or for one performer's stage name?

For groups. These are names for improv teams, troupes, house teams, duos and college groups, not stage names for one comedian and not scene suggestions or character names. For a solo act, see the comedian name generator in the related list.

Is one of these names already used by another team?

Quite possibly. Nobody has looked these names up, and improv teams form and fold all the time in every city with a theater. Check your own scene, your campus and any festival you plan to enter before you settle on one.

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A: 41 names

  • A Firm Yes And
  • A Location That Fits on This Stage
  • A Mid-Sized Sedan
  • A Minor Landmark
  • A Montage of Sorts
  • A Month and a Vegetable
  • A Number of Larrys
  • A Reasonable Offer
  • A Relationship Between Two People
  • A Serious Organization
  • A Small Regional Bank
  • A Suggestion of Anything
  • A Volunteer From the Audience
  • A Word, Any Word
  • Academic Probation
  • Accidental Tuxedo
  • Acting Treasurer
  • Ad Hoc Committee
  • Adjunct Faculty
  • Aggressively Taupe

A, continued

  • Airport Carpet
  • All Representatives Are Busy
  • Almost Thursday
  • Alumni Weekend
  • An Emotion, Anyone
  • An Occupation, Please
  • An Offer You Can Refuse
  • And Scene
  • And Then What Happened
  • Any First Line
  • Apparently I'm a Doctor
  • Aquarium Gravel
  • Are We Still Doing the Bit
  • Arguably Cake
  • Artisanal Static
  • As Previously Discussed
  • Ask for Marge
  • Assistant Regional Managers
  • Audience of Seven
  • Audience Participation Trophy
  • Aunt Deb's Casserole

B: 19 names

  • Back Row Yelled First
  • Backline Dancers
  • Base Reality Check
  • Base Reality TV
  • Beige Alert
  • Best and Final Offer
  • Big Choices
  • Black Box Lunch
  • Black Box Office
  • Blackout, Please
  • Blame the Suggestion
  • Blue Book Blues
  • Bold Choice, Gerald
  • Bread Bowl
  • Brenda from Accounts
  • Bricks Not Cathedrals
  • Bring Your Own Chair
  • Bunk Bed Summit
  • Butter Dish

C: 28 names

  • Cabaret Seating
  • Call Back Later
  • Callback Mountain
  • Callback to the Future
  • Campus Shuttle
  • Can We Get a Suggestion
  • Card Table
  • Carpet Sample
  • Causing a Scene Politely
  • Center for Things We Made Up
  • Ceremonial Spatula
  • Change of Scenery
  • Class Show Tonight
  • Club Fair Table
  • Coat Rack
  • Comedy Minor
  • Commit to the Bit
  • Commuter Lot
  • Complimentary Mints
  • Conference Lanyard
  • Continental Breakfast
  • Corduroy Whisper
  • Counteroffer
  • Cousin's Timeshare
  • Craig's Regular Table
  • Crisper Drawer
  • Curve Breakers
  • Cut to Twenty Years Later

D: 11 names

  • Dad's Thermostat
  • Damp Cardigan
  • Dean's Other List
  • Decaf by Mistake
  • Decorative Gourd
  • Did Someone Say Laundromat
  • Discussion Section
  • Double Major, No Job
  • Doug Is Driving
  • Downstage Dads
  • Dryer Sheet

E: 9 names

  • Earlier That Same Day
  • Edit Suite
  • Edit, Undo, Redo
  • Emergency Harold
  • Emotional Noises
  • Emotional Support Ladder
  • Estimated Wait Time
  • Everyone Entered at Once
  • Explore and Heighten

F: 21 names

  • Fade to Blackout
  • Fake Plant Real Dirt
  • Fifth Year Seniors
  • Find the Game
  • Fire Drill at 3 AM
  • First Line, Last Line
  • First Unusual Thing
  • Fluent in Gibberish
  • Folding Chair
  • Follow the Fun
  • Footnote Seventeen
  • For Internal Use Only
  • Free Pizza in the Lobby
  • Free Shirt Friday
  • Free Show Friday
  • Free Tote Bag
  • Freeze Tag Sale
  • Friday Night Harolds
  • Front Row Suggestions
  • Fully Committed
  • Fully Justified

G: 16 names

  • Gap Year
  • Garage Door Opener
  • Gently Used Trampoline
  • Gift Receipt
  • Goodnight, Everybody
  • Goose with a Clipboard
  • Got Your Back Line
  • Grandpa's Recliner
  • Gravel Salad
  • Gravy Boat Captain
  • Group Mind Over Matter
  • Group Mind Reader
  • Group Mind the Gap
  • Group Scene Investigation
  • Guest Lecture
  • Guest Meal Swipe

H: 21 names

  • Half a Harold
  • Half a Sandwich
  • Half an Idea
  • Ham Radio Silence
  • Hard Edit
  • Harold Says Hi
  • Harold's Roommate
  • Harold's Third Beat
  • Haunted Toaster
  • Heighten Up
  • Heightened Awareness
  • Hello Harold
  • High Status Low Budget
  • Highly Suggestible
  • Hive Mind Your Manners
  • Hold for Laughs
  • Homecoming Float
  • Horse Dentist
  • Hotel Soap
  • House Left
  • How Was Your Week

I: 18 names

  • I Forgot Your Name Already
  • I Heard Lighthouse
  • I Heard Spatula
  • I Thought You Were My Dad
  • I Was the Door
  • Ibid.
  • If This Is True
  • Improv 101 Waitlist
  • In the Style of a Western
  • Incomplete Grade
  • Indie Team Energy
  • Inspired by Spoon
  • Inspired by Your Day
  • Institute for Advanced Nonsense
  • Intramural Runners-Up
  • Invisible Coffee Cups
  • Is This Thing On
  • It Made Sense at the Time

J: 8 names

  • Jam Night Regulars
  • Janet's Good Towels
  • Junk Drawer Inventory
  • Just a Suggestion
  • Just Dave
  • Just the Warm-Ups
  • Just Two Chairs
  • Justify Yourself

K: 1 name

  • Kevin's Other Car

L: 29 names

  • La Ronde Trip
  • Lab Partners
  • Laminated Menu
  • Late Enrollment
  • Laughs Sold Separately
  • Laundromat It Is
  • Laundry Room Standoff
  • Lawn Chair Summit
  • League of Ordinary People
  • Leftover Rice
  • Legally a Sandwich
  • Let Me Get This Straight
  • Level One Grads
  • Level Two Dropouts
  • Library After Hours
  • Licensed and Bonded
  • Lifting Invisible Objects
  • Light Cue Seventeen
  • Limited Liability
  • Linda Knows
  • Lint Trap
  • Loitering on the Quad
  • Long Form Letter
  • Long Form Short Notice
  • Loose Gravy
  • Lost and Found Mitten
  • Lost Student ID
  • Low Status Symbols
  • Lukewarm Bath

M: 15 names

  • Meal Plan B
  • Meanwhile, at the Bakery
  • Midterm Crisis
  • Mild Salsa
  • Mildly Urgent
  • Mom's Good Scissors
  • Monoscene Monday
  • Montage Barrage
  • Mostly Greg
  • Moth to a Lamp
  • Motion Carries
  • Mug Tree
  • My Mom Thinks We're Funny
  • My Name Is Apparently Glorp
  • Mystery Meat Monday

N: 14 names

  • Name a Small Appliance
  • Napkin Emergency
  • National Council of Dads
  • Nearly Lasagna
  • Neighbor's Wi-Fi
  • Nervous Trombone
  • No Blocking Zone
  • Nobody Edited
  • Nobody Named Their Character
  • Nobody Wrote This
  • Non-Geographical Location
  • Not Now, Trevor
  • Not Pineapple
  • Number Two Pencils

O: 17 names

  • Object Work in Progress
  • Object Work Permit
  • Offer Not Valid in Ohio
  • Office Hours
  • Office of Second Thoughts
  • One More Scene, We Promise
  • One Suggestion Please
  • One Word Suggestion
  • Open Book Exam
  • Open to Suggestions
  • Opening Offer
  • Orange Extension Cord
  • Organic Opening, Locally Sourced
  • Orientation Leaders
  • Ornamental Cabbage
  • Our Parents Are in the Audience
  • Out of Office Reply

P: 25 names

  • Parking Lot Z
  • Pass/Fail
  • Pattern Game Recognition
  • Pay What You Can
  • Peer Edit
  • People Named Todd
  • Pep Band Dropouts
  • Phil's Second Garage
  • Pigeon in a Tie
  • Pineapple Again
  • Places in Five
  • Plastic Fern
  • Platform and Tilt
  • Please Hold
  • Polite Volcano
  • Politely Feral
  • Poor Harold
  • Porch Light
  • Power of Suggestion
  • Premise Liability
  • Prerequisites
  • Press Nine for Scenes
  • Probably Fine
  • Professional Driver, Closed Course
  • Pudding Skin

Q: 1 name

  • Quiet Hours

R: 11 names

  • Raccoon Notary
  • Recreational Fog
  • Regional Sales Meeting
  • Rehearsal Room C
  • Reluctant Parade
  • Rental Car
  • Resident Advisors
  • Room Temperature Milk
  • Roommates in the Front Row
  • Rough Draft
  • Running Long

S: 53 names

  • Say More About That
  • Scene Better Days
  • Scene Change, Please
  • Scene Machine
  • Scene Not Heard
  • Scene Partner Wanted
  • Scene Stealers Anonymous
  • Screen Door Slam
  • Seagull Lawyer
  • Second Beat Street
  • Second Team Up
  • Sentient Casserole
  • Sharon's Book Club
  • Shoe Horn Section
  • Short Form Tall Order
  • Shouted Suggestions
  • Shower Shoes
  • So We're on a Boat
  • So What You're Saying Is
  • Society for the Prevention of Scripts
  • Sock Drawer
  • Soft Edit Club
  • Soft Initiation
  • Soft Pretzel Hard Truth
  • Sold Out to Our Friends
  • Somebody Said Pineapple

S, continued

  • Somebody Stop Us
  • Somebody Sweep
  • Somebody's Lunch
  • Someone Yelled Dentist
  • Something From the Audience
  • Something Under Your Sink
  • Something You'd Find in a Garage
  • Sorry About That Scene
  • Soup Receipt
  • Space Work From Home
  • Spare Thumb
  • Stage Left Turn
  • Standing Room Mostly
  • Status Update
  • Store Brand Cereal
  • Strong Choices Weak Knees
  • Strong Initiation
  • Student Activities Fee
  • Studied Abroad Once
  • Suggestion Box
  • Suggestion Box Office
  • Summer Internship
  • Super Seniors
  • Suspicious Picnic
  • Sweep Dreams
  • Sweep Edit Repeat
  • Syllabus Week

T: 100 names

  • Table for Carol
  • Tactical Oven Mitt
  • Tag Out Tuesday
  • Tag Run Club
  • Tag, You're In
  • Teaching Assistants
  • Technically Soup
  • Tell Me More About the Goat
  • Tell Us About Your Day
  • Tenure Track
  • Tepid Applause
  • Thank the Light Booth
  • Thank You, Banana
  • Thanks for the Gift
  • Thanks, You've Been Great
  • That Was the Whole Bit
  • The 8 AM Section
  • The Actuarial Table
  • The Advisory Panel
  • The Alternate Jurors
  • The Back Line
  • The Black Box Kids
  • The Bureau of Unfinished Business
  • The Callbacks
  • The Chaperones
  • The Character Witnesses
  • The Claims Adjusters
  • The Condo Board
  • The Control Group
  • The Crossing Guards
  • The Department of Bits
  • The Designated Drivers
  • The Drop-In Class

T, continued

  • The Emergency Contacts
  • The Expert Witnesses
  • The Fact-Finding Mission
  • The Focus Group
  • The Front Row Is Family
  • The Groomsmen
  • The Hall Monitors
  • The Homeowners Association
  • The Late Slot
  • The Lights Will Save Us
  • The Loudest Voice Won
  • The Mimed Doorknobs
  • The Neighborhood Watch
  • The Next of Kin
  • The Night Auditors
  • The Notary Public
  • The One Who Did the Group Project
  • The Opener's Opener
  • The Paralegals
  • The Peer Reviewers
  • The Placebo Group
  • The Planning Commission
  • The Quarterly Report
  • The Quiet Floor
  • The Salad Fork
  • The Search Committee
  • The Seven-Thirty Team
  • The Steering Committee
  • The Subcommittee
  • The Substitute Teachers
  • The Suggestion Is Yours
  • The Suggestion Was Taxes
  • The Sweep Edits

T, continued

  • The Task Force
  • The Tax Preparers
  • The Tech Booth
  • The Ten O'Clock Slot
  • The Undeclared Majors
  • The Ushers
  • The Walk-Ons
  • The Welcoming Committee
  • The Who What Wheres
  • The Word Was Umbrella
  • The Working Group
  • The Yes Andersons
  • The Zoning Board
  • There Is No Script
  • Thesis Statement
  • Third Beat Poets
  • Third Floor Stacks
  • This Was Not the Plan
  • Three Black Cubes
  • Three Credit Comedy
  • Three Line Scenes
  • Three Scenes in a Trench Coat
  • Thursday at Nine
  • Toast Consultant
  • Too Many People on Stage
  • Too Many Steves
  • Transfer Credits
  • Trust Us, It's a Door
  • Twelve People and a Dog
  • Twin XL
  • Two Chairs and a Dream
  • Two Chairs, No Waiting
  • Two Garys
  • Two Scenes Later

U: 7 names

  • Umbrella Stand
  • Uncle's Boat
  • Under Review
  • United Federation of Bits
  • Unsalted Butter
  • Unscene Forces
  • Upstage Left Shoe

V: 3 names

  • Velour Tracksuit
  • Visiting Lecturers
  • Void Where Prohibited

W: 22 names

  • Wait, Who Am I
  • Waiting Room Magazine
  • Walk-On Part
  • We All Said Yes
  • We Did Not Rehearse This
  • We Have Day Jobs
  • We Heard Kayak
  • We Need a Volunteer
  • We Rehearsed This
  • We See Eight Months Pass
  • We'll Be Brief
  • We're Married in This One
  • We've Been Us
  • Western Again
  • What Do You Do for a Living
  • What Else Is True
  • What I'm Hearing Is
  • What's the Game
  • Where Was That Going
  • Who Is Harold
  • Who Left the Stage
  • Works Cited

Y: 8 names

  • Yes And a Half
  • Yes And Counting
  • Yes And Sons
  • Yes And Then Some
  • Yes And Yet
  • Yes Andromeda
  • Yes, And Also No
  • You're My Sister Now

Z: 2 names

  • Zero Denials
  • Zip Zap Zop Shop