This week’s Video Vault features an extended look at our 2005 U2 hoax, Even Better Than The Real Thing. It’s twice as long as the version we’ve had on YouTube in the past and gives the full story, from the preparation to the handcuffs. Enjoy! (also available on YouTube) edited by Andy van Baal Read […] More

The much-requested Moebius video is finally online, a little over four years after we created that time loop in the Astor Place Starbucks here in NYC. The Moebius was covered by This American Life’s radio broadcast in 2005, and is probably the most popular mission we’ve done. Don’t get your hopes up too high for […] More

This week’s Video Vault brings us the Best Gig Ever mission video online for the first time. You may have seen some of this footage already as part of This American Life’s television show which aired this spring on Showtime. You can still see our episode for free online (we’re the 2nd half of the […] More

The latest Video Vault installment comes from our 2003 Haunted House mission. We turned a subway car into a haunted house on Halloween. (also available on YouTube) Read the full mission writeup for a detailed account with photos: Haunted House More

This week’s video vault edition brings us footage from our very first No Pants mission. It’s probably my all-time favorite piece of Improv Everywhere footage. We just got lucky that our shoddy hidden camera in a bag was pointing in the right direction. This video is an unedited raw look at the first 3 stops […] More

This week’s video vault edition brings us footage from our Offshore Gambling mission, which we executed almost exactly five years ago (May 19, 2002.) It’s online now for the first time ever. Enjoy! (also available on YouTube) edited by Andrew van Baal shot by Lisa Ackerman and Mitch Butler Read the full mission writeup for […] More

From the vaults this week, our Anton Chekov mission from February 2004 is online for the first time ever. In it Agent Wimpy poses as Anton Chekov in a Barnes and Noble exactly 100 years after the famous Russian playwright died. (We got kicked out after about 15 minutes.) Later, we sold signed copies of […] More

To make up for the lack of new content around these parts lately, we’re dusting off a big pile of old school videos. All of these videos are appearing on our site for the first time ever, and unless you got your hands on one of our no-longer-available promo DVDs last year, you’ve never seen […] More

We did an interview with the German TV program “Tracks” a few months ago, and their segment is now posted online. Enjoy learning about IE in German! Improv everywhere newyork kunst happening Also available in French! More

We’ve been getting emails asking why we haven’t done a mission lately, so we wanted to let you know what we’ve been up to for the past few months. We actually have been executing missions, but they’ve been for the new NBC “Improv Everywhere” pilot we’re producing. We’ll give you more info in the coming […] More

Due to yesterday being April 1st, the jazz combo Improv Everywhere has dropped their lawsuit, and we’ve got our name back! Hipp Hipp Hooray! Thanks to everyone who emailed us words of support. Continue reading to see some of our favorite emails we received from folks on our mailing list. More

Improv Everywhere? As of today, Improv Everywhere is changing its name due to legal action by a jazz combo from the 1980s. It seems said combo recorded and self-released three albums of improvisational jazz under the name “Improv Everywhere” in 1983. Apparently one of the members of the long-since defunct group saw us on This […] More