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Kim’s Convenience star Andrew Phung hosts this 6-part series. Teams from across the country share how improv has taught them to be funny – and so much more.

On the final day of the national Canadian Improv Games, Andrew Phung and the documentary crew meet a unique team that’s come all the way from Salt Spring Island to compete in Ottawa.

This improv team hails from R.E. Mountain Secondary School in Langley, B.C. It’s the only all-female improv team competing at nationals.

The Battledogz have style. Even in the audience at the National Theatre Centre, coaches and families from other teams are sporting Battledogz branded toques with a logo that looks like it came straight from a death metal poster. Their merch game is strong.

The G.P. Vanier improv team is far from home. They’ve traveled by water, air and road to make it to Ottawa, and now they’re finally ready to compete in the Canadian Improv Games (CIG) nationals.

On the final day of the national Canadian Improv Games, Andrew Started from Regina, now they’re here. The Plaid Lads improv team qualified for the Canadian Improv Games (CIG) national competition in Ottawa – the second team in Luther College High School history to do so. 

Improvisational theatre is the ultimate test for a stage performer: thinking fast on your feet and creating imaginative worlds with characters and ridiculous story arcs from nothing but a simple prompt from the audience ain’t easy.

It’s how actor Andrew Phung got his start in television. Kim’s Convenience creator Ins Choi discovered Phung while he was performing on stage at an improv show at the Edmonton Fringe Festival.

A team of three Grade 12 girls – Chantel Johnson, Jessica Johnson, and Emily Kover, along with three Grade 11 girls – Brook Lowery, Laura McAvoy, and Melika Rezazadeh – won the inter-school B.C. competition and earned the right to advance to the national high school improvisation tournament in Ottawa last month.