Friday Nite Improvs

[2] The show regularly featured actors from every improv group in Pittsburgh, and alumni have gone on to act, write, and produce for television and film.

[4] The show began in 1989 with a group of several University of Pittsburgh theater students gathering in rehearsal spaces to play improvisational theatre games.

DeVincent and eight fellow actors started an informal improv workshop for the undergraduate students, with Jeff directing.

The group met every Friday night in various rehearsal spaces on campus — frequently Cathedral of Learning room B16/B18 — and called themselves the "Late Nite Club".

Occasionally the group played other games after, including the improvised cult soap operas "Corn Town" and "Shalico."

[6] In August, 2014, Friday Nite Improvs announced via its Facebook page that it was ending its current format as a weekly show on Pitt's campus.

Throughout the 1990s, FNI organized yearly 24-hour "Improv-a-thons", in which improv troupes and variety acts from the United States and Canada performed, raising more than $10,000 for the Pittsburgh Aids Taskforce.

Other charities Friday Nite Improvs has regularly contributed to include Pittsburgh Action Against Rape and the Rainbow Kitchen food pantry in Homestead, Pennsylvania.

These range from relatively simple scenes in which attributes are intermittently tweaked to guessing games to elaborate, longer forms.

Freeze is the one mainstay game of Friday Nite Improvs, starting every show at approximately midnight, and lasting until around 12:30 a.m.