Mission IMPROVable performed at the 7th Street Underground in the Martin Luther King Jr., University Union at 9 p.m. Saturday.

Misson IMPROVable is an improvisation comedy group that bases their routine on suggestions members of the audience make so the routine is never the same, said Andy Cameron, one of the members.

The four-member group is part of a team that is based out of Chicago.

The performance started with the members running around the room, pretending to be secret agents, each having names such as agent Neptune and agent Sugarbear.

The performers would have the audience scream out things such as an emotion or clique and then they would perform a skit based off the suggestions.

“Wooo! Search Wooo! on Facebook and make them your friend,” Cameron said.

The performers would do skits such as “Party Boys,” which was a rap contest between the performers who would take a name chosen by the audience and try to make a rap with something that rhymed with that name.

“That’s hardcore gangster,” a performer said.

Students from the audience were chosen to go onto the stage at different points in the performance.

Ash Elkins, a sophomore journalism major, volunteered to go on stage.

“I love doing improv,” Elkins said. ” I’ve been doing it since sixth grade.”

Elkins said she liked the group and had a lot of fun on stage.

“It was really hard not to laugh because you want to make the scene real, but your counterpart is really funny,” Elkins said.

Before each new scene, the performers would tell the audience to raise their hand and count down from five.

“Pretend you have a sore in your side you want to get out,” one of the performers said.

This was not the first time that Mission IMPROVable was at Eastern though it was the first time the four who performed have been to Eastern.

“I was excited to come to Eastern,” said one of the performers Mike Norris.

The group headed back to Chicago right after the performance.

E. J. Scott, a Mission IMPROVable performer, has been training for the Chicago Marathon and plans to run the marathon blindfolded.

Scott has Choroidermia and is going blind because of it. He is running to help with the research for the disease.

“We just need someone to help,” Scott said.

At the end of the performance, T-shirts and DVDs were raffled off.

University Board’s next comedy performance will be Sept. 30. Arvin Mitchell will perform, and the UB will have mock cocktails before the performance.

Courtney Bruner can be reached at 581-7942 or

dennewsdesk@gmail.com.