The Improv Punch Up

Hosted ByLesie Cserepy, Angus MacDonald, Tuong La

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Welcome to the Improv Punch Up! Each episode our hosts (Tuong La, Angus MacDonald, and Leslie Cserepy) take another pass at famous scenes from movies, tv....whatever, and make them better through improv! It's wacky. It's raw. It's THE IMPROV PUNCH UP!


All Episodes

E10 – Rushing or Dragging: A Time Wizard’s Milkshake (There Will Be Blood, Whiplash, Pulp Fiction)

All the way from the West Coast, Smooth Styles Colin Giles flies into town and joins Tuong and Leslie as they learn how Daniel Plainview reveals himself as a Time Wizard, Mr Simmons finds his tempo in different careers, and one man’s mouth is another man’s Pulp Fiction.

E09 – Ottawa Improv Festival 2018 LIVE SHOW!! (Star Wars III, The Mask, The Shining)

Live at the Ottawa Improv Festival 2018 Tuong​ , Angus​, and Leslie​ are joined by D.j.​Danger Mouse” Mausner (Crybabies, The Second City Touring Co), Dave​ “The Destroyer of Lawyers” Sawyer (Big Bang Improv​) , and “Jason Voorhes” Kirsten Rasmussen​ (K$M, The Second City​). Take the plunge with them as the Star Wars characters get a job at Dunder Mifflin, Alan Rickman unlocks the secrets of Footlocker with his tongue, and we learn that the true “Shining” is Oscar gold.

E08 – The Legend of the Puberty Phantom (High School Musical 2, Phantom of the Opera, Zelda CD-i)

Quest Friends Forever’s Goblin Whisperer Colleen Wang joins Tuong and Angus as they learn how going through puberty can affect your basketball career, sing their way into everyone becoming The Phantom of the Opera, and Link accidentally digs up the romantic past of his fairy Godmother and an Old Wizard Man.

E07 – Bing Bong Vernon DiGiorno Pizza (Army of Darkness, Harry Potter, Goodfellas)

The Magnficently Mustached Kristian Reimer of Blind Date joins Tuong and Leslie as they go on a steamy romantic date with a human and an orc, become spellbound as they see ‘The Vernons’ go to Hogwarts and get taught pizza magic, and finally answer the classic  Goodfellas question – funny how?

E06 – Cut to Barbied Tauntaun (Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, The Room, Titanic)

Former ‘Woke Warrior’ of TREVOR + The Improv Embassy Val Perelshtein joins Tuong and Leslie as they sing along with the Candy Man at his shop, smash cut to The Room going to a galaxy far far away, and find out that Jack from Titanic is the world’s #1 baby daddy

E05 – Stinky Pete and The John C. Reilly-verse (The Transformers: The Movie, Gangs of New York, Blade Runner)

Improv Embassy’s Head Honcho Chris takes a blue pill and joins Angus and Leslie as they learn about the dying wishes of Optimus Prime, bring violent gangs together with the power of love, and see a young Angus take the Voight-Kampff Test.

E04 – Wanna Huff Some Carpet Cleaner? (Aladdin, No Country for Old Men, Cool Hand Luke)

Improv Embassy’s Character Queen Deborah Ring takes a magic carpet ride with hosts Leslie and Tuong as they have a guys night out in Agrabah, learn about the Jobs family legacy, and lend a desperate prisoner a “really good” banjo.

E03 – 12 Angry Monkeys at 400x Speed (Jumanji, The Hunt for Red October, LOTR: The Return of the King)

Crush + GRIMprov’s resident goofball Jordan Moffatt steps into the ring with hosts Tuong and Angus as we learn about monkeys + keys, adding conflict at 400x speed, and visiting the council of wizards.

E02 – Butthole Mole (Gladiator, Breaking Bad, Forrest Gump)

Crush Improv’s own Kristine Shadid joins hosts Leslie and Angus this week as they discover an underground sphincter market, the interworkings of Uber Meth, and Jenny Craig’s many “presidential” connections.