The pranksters at Improv Everywhere describe their latest noble work thusly:

For our latest mission, 16 agents staged a spontaneous musical in the food court of a Los Angeles shopping mall. We used wireless microphones to amplify the vocal performances and mix them together with the music through the mall's PA system.

Improv Everywhere is at it again!

For our latest mission, we surprised random people with an unexpected dance party on the streets of New York. We placed a decal (designed in the style of the ubiquitous social distancing circles) that read "stand here for dance party" on the ground in Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan.

There's precautions and then there's precautions. If you're really trying to not get COVID-19, working on a makeshift floating office in the middle of New York's East River isn't the worst idea. It's also probably not the best one. Either way, the good folks at Improv Everywhere have made it happen.  — Read the rest

"Guerrilla theatre is a form of intervention where acts of spontaneous, surprise performance in unlikely public spaces rupture the boring-as-shit, day-to-day reality for an unsuspecting audience," writes artist/instigator/author Bill Posters (aka Barnaby Francis) in his new book The Street Art Manual. — Read the rest

Improv Everywhere's latest mission? Place a giant red boombox at Pier 17 in Manhattan for passerby to discover and plug in.

The good folks at Improv Everywhere made a couple of old phone booths in New York City a "little more useful" by converting them into co-working spaces.

Hosted by the New York City comedy collective Improv Everywhere, the No Pants Subway Ride is an annual New York City tradition where folks go pantless –together– on the subway. Now in its 17th year, the group has just announced that the 2018 event will happen on Sunday, January 7th. — Read the rest

The good-natured prankster group Improv Everywhere had some fun a few Sundays ago when they converted Manhattan's 6-train glass elevator at 23rd street into a fake Apple store. They told people it was a pop up to replace the iconic glass Apple store which is closed for renovations until early 2018. — Read the rest

This cute video is circulating which shows a group of people, led by a young woman, who want to throw a very brief birthday party for a friend on a subway car in New York City. The friend is unknowingly being guided into this situation by an accomplice. — Read the rest

Charlie Todd from Improv Everywhere (previously) writes, "We set up a fake press conference set on the steps of the New York Public Library. When random tourists approached it to pose for photos, a mob of reporters ran up and surprised them with an impromptu press conference."

Improv Everywhere (previously) keeps on bringing the hits, but seriously, this one takes the cake.

Charlie from Improv Everywhere sent us this video of their latest piece, "Ballroom Crosswalk," which features some genuinely great dancing in a NYC crosswalk, but even better is staged with a slow burn that pays off beautifully at the end!

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A young boy looks up at a woman with no pants on while riding in the subway system during the annual No Pants Subway Ride in New York on January 8. The event is organized by Improv Everywhere, and involves participants who strip down to their underwear as they go about their normal routine. — Read the rest

Unstuck is a new book from Noah Scalin offering 52 methods and strategies that one can use to get out of a creative rut. He's also running a bunch of 30 second videos from people describing their own tricks, including yours truly; Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd; performance artist Slash Coleman; and Matt Lively.

Modern prank pioneer Joey Skaggs, culture jammer of the first order, alerts us to a BBC News Magazine story exploring the art of the perfect prank. The article references such fine tricksters as Russian art collective Voina, Improv Everywhere, and of course Skaggs himself. — Read the rest

The merry pranksters at Improv Everywhere brought King Philip IV to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art to sign autographs beside his portrait, painted by Velázquez circa 1624. Improv Everywhere: King Philip IV

A high school in British Columbia is reprinting its yearbooks after a teacher used a pair of scissors to cut out the picture of a student whose quote he objected to from every copy in the print-run:

Teacher Ken Piercy, who was in charge of the yearbook committee, cut out Brandon's photo and comment because he said the boy had falsely accused the principal of spending money on a fence instead of textbooks.

Several weeks ago, Cory posted about a prankster painting a "tourist lane" on a busy New York City sidewalk. Turns out, the culprits were none other than our friends at Improv Everywhere! Bravo! "The Tourist Lane" — Read the rest

David from the New York Public Library sez, "We're facing a crippling proposed budget cut at the NYPL – so we called Improv Everywhere, who recreated Ghostbusters in our main reading room to a delighted crowd of onlookers to see if they bust budget cuts as well as they bust ghosts. — Read the rest

On January 10, our friends at Improv Everywhere held their annual No Pants! Subway Ride. In New York City, more than 3,000 people participated. Another couple thousand rode pantsless in more than 40 other cities around the world. Above is the video evidence. — Read the rest