Alex’s Restaurant + Yes, You! Presents: Choose Your Own Adventure + A Democracy Debacle

Buckle up! Joyride is a non-stop, high-energy improv performance series where the destination changes every weekend.

WIT is DC’s top spot for hilarious improv comedy. Our company ensembles—featuring the fastest and funniest minds in the region—are ready to take your silliest suggestions and transform them into jaw-droppingly hilarious scenes, entirely made up on the spot.

The Performers

Alex’s Restaurant

“You can get anything you want at Alex’s Restaurant!” Longtime DC improviser David Shadburn will play the guitar and tell you the hilarious, winding tale of his dear friend “Alex” – only the entire story is made up on the spot based on your suggestion! This show is inspired by Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving anti-war classic “Alice’s Restaurant.” Remember Alex? This is a song about Alex.

Cast: David Shadburn

Yes, You! Presents: Choose Your Own Adventure

We’re on a mission and we need you – yes, you! – to help us succeed. Join us in an uplifting night of laughs with the audience at the steering wheel in the spirit of a “choose your own adventure” novel.

Cast: Elizabeth Griffith, Ernest Afflu, Kate Fridley, Max Hauptman, Nina Fink, Sanjana Raghavan

A Democracy Debacle

Our Democracy is in chaos. Watch as one idealistic freshman congressperson tries—and potentially fails spectacularly—to pass a bill, exposing the absurd, frustrating, and downright ridiculous world of American politics. It’s democracy, dysfunction, and disaster…all improvised live!

Cast: Alissa Platz-Engler, Chris Olinger, Chris Ulrich, Grace Campion, Hannah Piper, John Windmueller, Kunal Duggal, Matt O’Neill, Ryan Pierannuzi, Sam Sanders, Stacey Pelika