Part1: Introduction
1. Forerunners
Part2: The Icons
2. Viola Spolin and Keith Johnstone
3. David Shepherd, Paul Sills, and Ted Flicker
4. Mike Nichols & Elaine May
5. Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal
6. Josephine Forsberg and Martin de Maat
7. Del Close and Charna Halpern
8. Mick Napier Part3: The First Groups
9. The Compass Players
10. The Committee
11. The Second City
12. The Groundlings
13. The Brave New Workshop
14. The Loose Moose Theatre Company
15. The Match ? Robert Gravel and Yvon Leduc
16. IO
17. Comedysportz
18. The Comedy Store Players
19. The Annoyance
20. The Upright Citizens Brigade
Part4: The Second Wave Luminaries
21. IO House Teams
22. TJ & Dave
23. Mark Sutton & Joe Bill
24. Susan Messing and Jonathan Pitts
25. Frances Callier, Shaun Landry & Oui Be Negros
Part5: Film & Television
26. SNL and Sctv
27. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
28. Nick Cannon and Wild ’n Out
29. Robert Altman, Judd Apatow, Paul Feig, and Adam McKay
30. Mick Leigh, Christopher Guest, Larry David, and Sacha Baron Cohen
31. Steve Carell and Steven Colbert
32. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey
33. Jordan Peele and Keegan Michael Key
34. Middleditch and Schwartz
35. Improv Nerd
36. Comedy Bang! Bang!, Hello from the Magic Tavern, and Improv4humans Part6: The (Further) Expansion of Improv
37. Applied Improvisation
38. The Improv Ambassadors ? Jason Chin, Patti Stiles, and Jill Bernard
39. The Improvised Shakespeare Company
40. Boom Chicago
41. Barbixas
42. 3PEAT, the Black Version, and Dark Side of the Room
43. Asian AF
Part7: The International Powerhouses
44. Europe
45. Latin America
46. Australia, Africa, and Asia
Part8: The Fourth Wave
47. The Pandemic & the Reckoning
48. The New Artistic & Executive Directors
49. The Fourth Wave Theatre
50. The Person You Cannot Believe I Didn’t Include