We are friends that write down the strange things that give us joy and amusement and then we perform them in spaces where people are allowed to come and watch us. You can be our fan on Facebook! You can! Or even follow us on Twitter! Photos by Jon Bolden. Logo by Jeff Bent.Tumblr (3.0; @yourterrificneighbors)http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lut97aMqFz1qbt0oco1_250.png"/><br/><br/><p><strong><a href="http://www.hideouttheatre.com/shows/wafflefest">THE HIDEOUT THEATRE’S ANNUAL WAFFLEFEST STARTS TONIGHT!</a></strong></p> <p>Your Terrific Neighbors will be bringing a small side dish of sketch comedy to this venerable improv comedy tradition. This evening, we’ll be performing at 8, alongside Furiously Missing and The Control Group. It will be fun!</p> <p>10 bucks gets you laughter plus <em>unlimited waffles. </em>How many waffles can you eat? I bet you can eat a lot, friend. Stretch that dollar. See if you can’t fill your belly for the next two days.</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/12926226355http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/12926226355Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:18:46 -0600<span id="video_player_12913056031">[<a href="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" target="_blank">Flash 10</a> is required to watch video.]</span><script type="text/javascript">renderVideo("video_player_12913056031",'http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/video_file/12913056031/tumblr_luse6mE0l31qbt0oc',400,225,'poster=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_luse6mE0l31qbt0oc_r1_frame1.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_luse6mE0l31qbt0oc_r1_frame2.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_luse6mE0l31qbt0oc_r1_frame3.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_luse6mE0l31qbt0oc_r1_frame4.jpg,http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.tumblr.com%2Ftumblr_luse6mE0l31qbt0oc_r1_frame5.jpg')</script><br/><br/><p>Wafflefest, y’all.</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/12913056031http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/12913056031Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:08:46 -0600<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpknstYfji1qbt0oco1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Aw, damn. It’ll be an evening of (mostly) new sketches at The Hideout tonight. 7 pm, kids.</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/8609171284http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/8609171284Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:07:41 -0500<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/22241340" width="400" height="226" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>See all new sketches this Sunday, August 7th. 7pm. Hideout Theatre. $5.</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/8574764435http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/8574764435Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:04:31 -0500<p><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/26635448?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe></p> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/26635448">Your Terrific Neighbors: Campaign Ad #3</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3298507">Your Terrific Neighbors</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> <p><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/26633247?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe></p> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/26633247">Your Terrific Neighbors: Campaign Ad #1</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3298507">Your Terrific Neighbors</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> <p><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/26634555?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe></p> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/26634555">Your Terrific Neighbors: Campaign Ad #2</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3298507">Your Terrific Neighbors</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> <p>These clowns in Washington, right??</p> <p><strong>(Videos directed, produced, and edited by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stuart.mcspadden">Stuart McSpadden</a>.)</strong></p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/7812619588http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/7812619588Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:40:13 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo2uzoMFCn1qbt0oco1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Real talk = <em>Syrup Talk</em></p> <p>Sunday at 7 at the Hideout Theater.</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/7423926797http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/7423926797Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:52:36 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lntqz3B6rx1qbt0oco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/7237079801http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/7237079801Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:47:27 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnqoz8vyRZ1qbt0oco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Sorry, folks. </strong></p> <p><strong>Our show has been moved to the following Sunday — 7/10.</strong></p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/7180359165http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/7180359165Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:11:32 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llfdwsfptA1qbt0oco1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://atxsketchfest.com/">It’s coming, folks</a>.</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/5629552556http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/5629552556Wed, 18 May 2011 23:31:41 -0500<p>There is a show tonight!</p> <p>At The Hideout Theatre!</p> <p>At 7:00 pm!</p> <p>For five dollars!</p> <p>Featuring: SKETCH COMEDY!</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/5101730040http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/5101730040Sun, 01 May 2011 10:20:21 -0500<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj7oywbk8t1qbt0oco1_250.png"/><br/><br/><p>If you don’t see The Encyclopedia Show this Thursday this baby head will cry.</p> <p>Time   Thursday, April 7 · <span class="dtstart"><span class="value-title" title="2011-04-07T19:30:00"> </span>7:30pm</span> - <span class="dtend"><span class="value-title" title="2011-04-07T22:00:00"> </span>10:00pm</span></p> <hr><p>Location   <span class="fn org">ND @ 501 Studios</span>501 I-35Austin, TX</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/4382844950http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/4382844950Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:42:00 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh1w5fmGnT1qbt0oco1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>Your Terrific Neighbors already brought you an improbable Super Bowl Sunday with their pals in <a href="http://www.tcpsketch.com/">Turn of The Century Paris</a>, now they’re ready to assault you with March Madness. For March, truly, is your terrific month, with the neighbors busting out nine performances in 31 days. A feat never before attempted by any human, as far as I have bothered to look up!</p> <p><span><strong>Thursdays</strong></span> (March 3, 10, 17 and 24)</p> <p>We’ll be rocking the 10pm show at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ColdTowne">ColdTowne Theater</a> for five bucks. </p> <p><span><strong>Fridays and Saturdays</strong></span> (March 4, 5, 11, 12)</p> <p>We’ll be doing a special, extended mainstage set at 8pm at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Salvage-Vanguard-Theater/33869138944">Salvage Vanguard Theater</a>. $10.</p> <p><span><strong>Sunday</strong></span> (March 6th)</p> <p>We’ll be doing our customary first Sunday show at 7pm at the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/hideouttheatre">Hideout Theatre</a>. $5.</p> <p>Each of these shows will feature LARGELY NEW MATERIAL, as well as STUFF THAT WE’VE DONE BEFORE BUT NOT THAT OFTEN!</p> <p>If you have not seen us in a while, we do so humbly invite you to come on out and do so.</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/3457191461http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/3457191461Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:24:51 -0600<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg0xavN1qL1qbt0oco1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>The Super Bowl.</p> <p>It’s the biggest annual event in American sports. An unparalleled media spectacle. A super big deal, basically.</p> <p>But indulge us in a few “what if” scenarios.</p> <ul><li>What if, instead of a football, they were trying to move LAUGHTER down the field? </li> <li>What if, instead of players, there were LAUGHS?</li> <li>What if they called it the LAUGHTER Bowl?</li> <li>What if, instead of commercials, there were LAUGHS?</li> <li>What if, instead of a halftime performance from the Black-Eyed Peas, there was a LAUGHtime performance by the Laugh-Eyed Laughter Squad?</li> </ul><p>In that case, you’d have something like what is happening at the <a href="http://www.hideouttheatre.com/shows/theweekender">Hideout Theater this Sunday evening</a>: Your Terrific Neighbors joined by their fellow Austin sketchers <a href="http://www.tcpsketch.com/index.html">TURN OF THE CENTURY PARIS</a>!</p> <p>And that’s not all — in a singularly ill-considered piece of timing/counterprogramming, we will be videorecording these shows for festival submissions. That means you can expect ONLY THE VERY BEST!</p> <p>So look. Let’s just be honest here. We know you’re not coming if you care about football. And we don’t blame you. (At least one of us cares about football, and boy oh boy is he/she ever cheesed off.)</p> <p>But please be a pet and pass the word along to someone who doesn’t care about football. Or who, at the very least, cares about laughter more.</p> <p>Also, FREE SODA COOZIES!*</p> <p>*There will not be free soda coozies.</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/3081353717http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/3081353717Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:18:30 -0600<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfho2jvhm71qbt0oco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/2895163749http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/2895163749Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:44:43 -0600<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lepy9v5FLU1qbt0oco1_250.png"/><br/><br/><p>Baby head!</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/2655307965http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/2655307965Sat, 08 Jan 2011 13:32:19 -0600<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcveuwLWnq1qbt0oco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Join us, o friends, in bidding farewell to 2010 this Sunday at the Hideout Theatre, where Your Terrific Neighbors will be performing some of their favorite sketches of 2010 … along with perhaps some additional surprises and some things to shock and disturb!</p> <p><a href="http://www.hideouttheatre.com/shows/theweekender">It’s at 7 pm, and, as always, it will run you a mere five dollars</a>.</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/2085073475http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/2085073475Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:11:20 -0600<p>That’s right.</p> <p><a href="http://www.hideouttheatre.com/shows/theweekender">7:00 pm tonight at the Hideout Theatre, Your Terrific Neighbors are bringing brand new yukkles to the world</a>.</p> <p>The weather has gone chilly; come feel the warmth of laughter and forgetting.</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/1573329543http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/1573329543Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:27:29 -0600<p>Your Terrific Neighbors’ monthly Hideout show usually occurs on the first Sunday of the month.</p> <p>But not always. No, some months are different. Like this month, which is November. This month is different.</p> <p>Your Terrific Neighbors will be performing their monthly Hideout show on the <em>second </em>Sunday of this month. Sunday, November 14th.</p> <p>You should come see it, don’t you think? After all, it will be full of fantastic new sketches that have never before been seen by humans.</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/1490344623http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/1490344623Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:19:55 -0500<p>Gosh, we really ought to update our web page, oughtn’t we?</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/1400217350http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/1400217350Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:16:33 -0500<p><img height="400" width="500" src="http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/theoryandpractice/monolith.jpg"/></p> <p>Tonight. 7:30 pm. The Hideout Theatre (upstairs).</p> <p>Your Terrific Neighbors take on the <a href="http://www.outofboundscomedy.com/2010/troupe-name-sttroupe-name-st-5/">Out of Bounds Comedy Festival</a> with 7-10 Split and Covered and Smothered.</p> <p>Debuting their all-new, socially engaged one-act play “Baggage”.</p> <p>It’s gonna be immense. Troublingly immense.</p>http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/1053484658http://www.yourterrificneighbors.com/post/1053484658Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:34:01 -0500