We had an awesome weekend at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo this year, rocking three shows AND a gameshow with great crowds and even more great laughs. We were even featured on CTV MOrning Live! Right now we’re in the process of putting the CTV clips, plus the whole Friday Night Nerdprov show up on YouTube. Here’s the playlist!

We’ve been doing a daily YouTube countdown to Anime North as part of out Ten Year Anniversary celebrations! We have news about our shows on that weekend, special sketches, and a collection of Anime North memories from our veteran performers. Head on over to our YouTube site for today’s video and the ones we’ve posted so far!

On Saturday at Anime North this year, we want YOU to make our setlist of games we play. Just head over to this link and fill it out, we’ll take the most voted games and perform them for you. And hey, even if you’re NOT going to Anime North, vote anyway! Hooray for comedy democracy!

Oh, goodness! The latest stop on our TENTH ANNIVERSARY year tour is our flagship show in Toronto, for Anime North! The Eastsiders are once again joined by members of our Westside cast, and we’re gonna be having you laugh all weekend long at FIVE improv shows! Here’s our poster for the Friday night show:

What ARE our five shows? Here are the showtimes and locations!

Friday – 5:00pm-7:00pm – Doubletree Main Plaza Ballroom – The Eastside-Westside Improv Kickoff
The 404s start their 10th Anniversary weekend in style, with classic games, new names, and YOUR suggestions to create comedy with an anime twist!

Friday – 9:00pm-11:00pm – Toronto Congress Centre Hall G – Anime Wrestle-Prov X
It’s nerdprov in the wrestling ring! Teams of otaku tag-team through improv scenes where YOU choose the winning team! Beware, it’s a late-nite show – no holds barred!

Saturday – 7:00pm – 8:30pm – Toronto Congress Centre Hall G – The 404s Fan-Made Improv Show!
It’s the show where the anime fans pick the games we play! Enter the survey at www.the404s.com and choose your favourite improv games – and we’ll play ‘em on stage!

Saturday – 11:00pm – 1:00am – Toronto Congress Centre Hall G – Last Pants Standing Improv Show (18+)It’s The 404s infamous “late nite”, mature-rated elimination improv show where letting our hair down is the least of your worries! No anime, no topic, no taboo is safe!

Sunday – 4:00pm – 5:00pm – Doubletree Main Plaza Ballroom – The 404s MUSICAL Improv Grand Finale!
Finish off your weekend with The 404s and a special, musical-themed anime improv show! With your suggestions, we’ll make up whole songs on the spot and sing you senseless!

THis year’s Comedy Showdown at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo was a real doozy – we did Marvel Heroes and DC Villains! It was a great show, and the Marvel team win by a narrow margin of 7-6! Click the postr for a higher rez version!

ALL of our shows at the Calgary Expo this year were wonderful! Want to see clips of what happened? Clicky click right HERE!

The WESTSIDE CAST is in search of new members for upcoming shows, and will be actively looking for nerdy comedy talent at or upcoming shows – including this weekend at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo!

Come to the Calgary Expo’s IMPROV FOR NERDS workshop in the Rotary House on Sunday, April 27 at 12:30pm for our improv comedy workshop. We’ll be looking for new blood, based in Calgary or Edmonton, to join our ranks of fandom entertainers at shows in Alberta and beyond. We’ll also be looking for new “nuggets” at our workshops at other shows in Alberta in the coming months!

To find out what we’re looking for, check out THIS PAGE for information on the kind of person we’re seeking. Interested, aspiring performers will be invited to our un-public practices and if things work out there, you might be tested in front of an audience soon enough. Are you a nerdy funny guy (or a funny nerdy guy) who has experience in theatre, or would like to learn? We hope to hear from you!

Eyyup – our “flagship show” for the Alberta genre fandom is upon us again. And as our TENTH ANNIVERSARY celebrations continue, this year at the Expo is a doozy!

We’re the “house team” of comedians at the Calgary Expo, and we’re also proud to be contributing staff, writers and panel facilitators. But our fans know us for our comedic exploits, and this year is great fun. Here are our shows for the weekend:

Boyce Theatre – Friday 4:30pm – Nerdprov Comedy With The 404s
Palomino AE – Saturday 6:00pm – Stump the Nerds Comedy Gameshow
Boyce Theatre – Sunday 2:30pm – Marvel Vs. DC Comedy Showdown!

Also join us for these other great events we’re doing:

Boyce Theatre – Sunday 10:30am – Brony Jeopardy!
Rotary House – Sunday 12:30pm – Improv Workshop

And we’ll also be hosting the costume contest and plenty of panels all over the Calgary Expo. It’s gonna be ten kinds of awesome for our ten years of improv celebrations, for sure. We’re also excited to continue our cast mashup from last year, and this year Big Mike from the Eastside cast will be joining the fun!

Check out the FACEBOOK PAGE for the latest details!

Hey all, as part of our Tenth Anniversary celebration we are working on some great swag for our fans – our first 404s T-shirt! Check it out below. We’re asking YOU to vote for the design we’ll be making to sell or prize out at our shows this year. Click HERE for the Facebook page where you can vote!

Voting ends on APRIL 6. Share it to your Facebook page, and be entered into a draw for the winning design!

UPDATE: The winning T-shirt design by a 2:1 margin was the “Write-Your-Own-Shirt” design on the right, with almost 70 votes cast. Guess you guys love Cards Against Humanity as much as we do! The shirts are in production now – you can expect them to be available starting in May at our events. Please buy one and support The 404s as we start our second decade of improv!

In 2003, a bunch of mostly-friends did a show of mostly-amateur level improv comedy at Edmonton’s anime convention, Animethon. Ten years on, The 404s are happy to celebrate our 10th anniversary at the site of Animethon’s 20th year – our “Flagship” anime show for the Westside cast!

This year we’re proud to add so much more to the usual level of quality comedy you’ve come to expect from The 404s. We’ve got gameshows, workshops, panels, and hosting duties galore; and of course you’ll have access to us for our classic anime improv comedy, hockey-prov show, and the infamous, mature-rated “Last Pants Standing” elimination improv show! Plus, we’ve got more new team members eager to show off their stuff, more improv games they’ve brought with them, and some great surprises we’ll be announcing along the way.

The Facebook page is right HERE. Animethon 20 will be a banner event for The 404s, and as always you’re invited along for the fun. Come join us as we celebrate ten years of improvised madness at the con where it all started!

The Calgary Expo attracted 70,000 people last year for its TNG reunion. This year we’ve got more guests than you can shake a stick at from Star Trek, Star Wars, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who and yes… The 404s!

From April 26-28, we will be rocking the stage with three comedy shows: Nerdprov on Friday, Stump the Nerds on Saturday (right before the costume contest), and on Sunday we will be having the uber-epic MARVEL VERSUS DC COMEDY SHOWDOWN!

Check HERE for the Facebook site and the latest info. We’re known as the Expo’s “House Team” of comedians, and we’ll be working hard to deerve that honor – join us there as we continue our Tenth Anniversary celebrations!