front porch improv

Savannah Now: Rip City Write Up

Charleston experimental comedy show Rip City CHS drops into Front Porch Improv

Comedy is notoriously hard, but it can be even more difficult when it’s experimental, unrehearsed and untested. Of course, that is what makes an off-the-rails comedy show like Rip City so exhilarating for a live audience.

Rip City is a comedy variety show featuring sketches, improv, characters, music and performance art, all curated by the hilarious married comedy duo of Henry Riggs and Maari Suorsa, aka Nameless Numberhead.

Rip City, which has been called the “SNL of the South,” was developed in Charleston, South Carolina, by Riggs and Suorsa, and was inspired by their time training in the comedy mecca of Chicago….