Hey everyone, check out what we’ve got coming up in the next few months. Plus more shows to be announced soon!

- January 19^th: The Rockpile “Oh Snap!” Mousetrap Show (Toronto, ON)

On their third Rockpile Show the 404s will be adding a new flavor to their bizarre performance. Pain! That’s right! Once again we will blindfold and submit two of our roster to a fleet of live mousetraps for little more than your amusement.

Where will the mousetrap of Damocles fall on our wayward improvisers? You’ll have to show up to find out! As always tickets are $10 at the door, show starts at 9:00 but we always recommend coming early to get the best seats.

- February 16^th: The Rockpile “Improvalypse” show (Toronto, ON)

For the fourth Rockpile Show the Eastside 404s plan to present their (relatively) new Improv League format! Having premiered just this past year your favorite geek comedy troupe plans to battle it out and you get to be the judge! Decide which team has the real improv chops to make you laugh.

- February 25^th-26^th: Con-G (Guelph, ON)

Con-G has once again welcomed the 404s back to Guelph for their set of improvised comedy. Those poor fools. And like the call of the siren the 404s leap at the offer to educate and horrify their audience with the first convention show of the year!  Stare! Point! Make detailed notes! But most of all attend!

- May 25^th-27^th: Anime North (Toronto, ON)

Once again Anime North has invited us back for a weekend of intense shenanigans. We’ll be performing on the Main Stage and the Mississauga room all weekend (well not ALL weekend you understand) and we want to make every event standing room only! Or even floating room only! So come on down and help prove why we are still the must-see event at Anime North.

We’ve phased out the old single contact email and you can now contact either cast of The 404s separately and directly. Wanna email us? Let us know based on where you’re from:

WESTERN CANADA (Pacific, Prairies and Northern) & USA – westside404s (at) gmail.com

EASTERN CANADA (Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic) & USA – eastside404s (at) gmail.com

Now wherever you go, there we are!

There’s a ton of improv fun in the next couple months featuring The 404s – so much so we can’t update the website fast enough before something else comes up!

WESTSIDE – We now have THREE regular shows for you to see in Calgary:

- Our new WEEKLY show at Waves Coffee House (1019-17th Ave SW), EVERY THURSDAY at 8:00pm! This show features our performers taking a single suggestion to create an evening of improvised scenes!

- The IJ@CK Improv Jam at Cafe Koi (1011 – 1st Street SW), the THIRD WEDNESDAY of the month at 9:00pm! Now in our second year, this is the all-in jam where the audience joins in the fun!

- The Improv League for Improvisors, also at Cafe Koi, the FIRST WEDNESDAY of the month at 9:00pm. In this competitive show, teams of improvisors from the local community face off for your votes, hockey-prov style!

The website will be updated with pages about these new regular events in Calgary soon.

EASTSIDE – We’ve started a semi-regular show and have some fandom events coming up too!

- The Rockpile Bar & Nightclub will host our second comedy night spectacular! We’re calling it “We’ve Been Naughty” for the obvious reasons – and we’ll show you why on Thursday, December 1 at 9:00pm! The Rockpile is at 5555 Dundas St. W in Etobicoke. We’re setting up a semi-regular series of comedy nights here, so check back for announcements of more shows!

- We’re also doing the Anime North & JCCC Halloween Festival on Friday, October 28, at the Japanese Canadian Culture Centre 6 Garamond Court in Toronto. Doors open at 6:30 to the overall event, where we’ll be providing spook-tacular fun!

Plus, we’re already getting ready for the 2012 season of conventions, fan events, and corporate fun. Be sure to stop by a show for many flavours of 404s comedy! For the absolute latest, click on the link to the Facebook page on the right. Be sure to follow us on Twitter and YouTube too!

And don’t forget, BOTH casts are available for your holiday season entertainment needs! Click on “hire us” on the right for all the details. We all hope to see you at a show soon!

The 404s are headlining their first event this September 29th at the Rockpile Bar and Nightclub in Etobicoke, Ontario! The fun starts at 8:00 pm with standup comedy by Lucy Chen, so be sure to show up early for the best seats in the house!

That’s right! Your favorite Geek Improv troupe is taking their show to the late night to celebrate with all manner of hilarious hijinks that will open your mind to the very real possibility that we are all very deranged.

Tickets are $10 at the door and we encourage all of our GTA fans to attend for this event. As always participation is mandatory so bring your worst ideas and we’ll showcase them to a wide body of people!

Seeya there!

The monthly improv jam IJ@CK is one year old! And for our anniversary show, we’re cerebrating in style. Come on down for the festivities, cake, and our very first Improv League Challenge! It’s September 21st in downtown Calgary, click on the IJ@CK link on the right of the page for all the details!

Also this month, we’re throwing the gauntlet down and challenging The Kinkonauts, a longform improv group in Calgary, to our Hockey-prov spectacular! Be sure to be there for the first Improv League Challenge, it’s sure to be a blast!

The 404s got their start many years ago at this little ol’ anime convention called “Animethon” in Edmonton, Alberta, which has since grown to be one of the largest and most successful anime cons in Western Canada. We’re proud to come back every year and to present our classic anime-themed improv comedy shows to hundreds of people every year. This weekend is Animethon 18, and the Westside cast of The 404s is pleased to bring our best performances to what we consider our “flagship” show in Western Canada!

We’ve got FOUR different anime improv shows coming at Animethon, and here are their details and showtimes. Read on!

FRIDAY NIGHT – 7:00 – 8:30 – Room 6-214 – Anime Improv Fanservice Fun!

The “classic” anime improv show with maximum audience participation! The audience is invited onto the stage wtih The 404s, adding their suggestions and participation to kick off the Animethon weekend with improvised anime madness!

SATURDAY AFTERNOON – 3:00pm – 4:30pm – Room 6-214 – The National Anime Improv League!

This is the new, competitive anime improv we premiered at Taste of Animethon, where The 404s will improvise hockey style! A referee will direct the teams to give their best interpretation of a scene title, and the audience votes for points. Don’t miss this new popular improv format that’s taking off at cons around the country!

SATURDAY LATE-NITE – 11:30pm-????? – Room 8-211 – Last Pants Standing – The R-rated show!

It’s our infamous “late nite”, mature-rated anime improv show where letting our hair down is the least of your worries! No anime, no topic, no taboo is safe as we take the gloves off, for starters. Limited seating only, and IDs will be checked!

SUNDAY MORNING – 10:30 – noon – Room 7-146/187 – Anime Improv Workshop / Auditions

Wake up! We’re looking for new talent and dedicated fans of anime AND improv to become the next generation of 404s performers. Like what you see, and interested in joining the team? Show up for a look behind the scenes in improvisation, and if you’re interested in joining in, show us what you’ve got!

SUNDAY AFTERNOON – 1:00pm-2:30pm – Main Events Room – The Anime Improv Megashow Finale!

It’s the always-fun Sunday megashow, where the best improv comedy takes to the main stage! With bright lights, tights, fights, mikes, and audio-visual delights, The 404s wind up the weekend with encores of your favorite games, a bunch of new ones, plus the infamous MOUSETRAP GAME!

And as always, you can also expect collaborations with other awesome events happening on the convention weekend! The dance, the closing ceremonies, and our various performers will be seen at a bunch of panels (and down in the dealers room) too! It’s Animethon 18, gang – we’re pracited and ready to go, and we’re excited to see you on the weekend!

…It’s not all that often that politics makes fun of US! We were taking a cast photo after a show at the recent Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo, but who should drop in and photobomb us but Calgary’s mayor, Naheed Nenshi!

The man was pretty classy (and a sci-fi geek in his own right, as it turns out) and we thank him for, ah, “contibuting” to our official record of improv comedy.

Mayor Nenshi’s Website Here

The next few weeks are full o’ fresh fun on the anime improv front. Here are the upcoming shows and their websites:

July 30-31: ConBravo (Burlington, ON) – WEBSITE HERE

August 5-7: Animethon 18 (Edmonton, AB) – WEBSITE HERE

August 12-14: Otakuthon (Montreal, QC) – WEBSITE HERE

And as always, IJ@CK is on the third wednesday of the month in downtown Calgary!

This weekend is busy for The 404s in two Great Canadian events!

Calgary – It’s our big shows at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo! We’re known as the “house team” of comedians there and we bring it every time, but this year is more special than ever. Not only are we performing our usual geek-themed improv show on Friday at 8pm, but on Sunday we’ve got the “Trek Wars Comedy Showdown”, where we’ll be dressing up as teams from SF’s biggest franchises and challenging each other to improvise the best scenes given by a referee. The audience will decide the winners in our new show format!

Guelph – A new outdoor show awaits at Fairyfest’s Enchanted Ground festival! We’re on stage in the magical outdoors to entertain the festival goers with a special “fantasy” show. Join us at 8pm where we make fun of all things fantastic and add a little more magic to the weekend!

And of course, this week we’ve got our regular IJ@CK improv jam in Calgary! And stay tuned – we hope tohave even more announcements on the way as The 404s settle into their summer season of convention visits, and more. Audition announcements will be coming soon too – the family is growing and we’re looking for new improvisors to join in!

We did it once, we’re not stopping now! The 404s will return to ConBravo in Oakville, Ontario this July. Check out what they wrote about us on their website!

Fans, feel free to participate. Attendee interaction is a big part of improv comedy and The 404s love fresh victi– I mean, able volunteers! So get up there, act like a banana (or a crocodile eating a shark eating a cactus) and be a part of the show! (Also, you can just sit there, point, and laugh. That’s okay too.)”

So, GO! We’ll see you there!