The Out of Bounds Comedy Festival is in full swing, but if you're worried that you've already missed all the fun, don't fret, there's still five more days of fun to be had. Improvers, sketch comics, and stand up comedians will be all be attacking Austin stages the next few nights for an experience you won't soon forget. Here's just a tatse of all the fun you can partake in tonight.
UT CAMPUS
College Improv Night
If you can only catch one show tonight, this should be the one. This free show features Texas's best college improvers, from our hometown heroes, UT's Gigglepants, OU's Obviously Unrehearsed, Rice's Spontaneous Combustion, Critcket City from Texas A&M Commerce, and UNT's Thought for Food. This a great chance to see a bunch of the future improv stars of tomorrow show off their stuff today. Just be sure to get there early, this place is gonna fill up fast.
SALVAGE VANGUARD THEATER
8:00 - Empty Suits and Scatter
Empty Suits is a talented improv team from Atlanta who promises to make us all fitter, happier people, and even provide letters of recommendation! How could you pass that up? Also on the bill is Houston's Scatter!, which promises more laughs and more energy than you could possibly imagine.
9:30 - Your Terrific Neighbors and Sidecar
Austin's own Your Terrific Neighbors will show you what makes them the finest people to have around, bringing you their silly, unique style and sketch comedy that is sure to have you rolling on the floor. You can also enjoy New York's Sidecar, one of the nation's most well-respected sketch comedy troupes showing off smaller pieices of their larger sketch work.
11:00 - Dirty Water and Fuct
One of the most unique improv shows on the docket, Chicago's DIrty Water is an improv show all about the goings-on of the Boston-based Dirty Water Pub, and all the hilarious characters that reside inside. After that is New York's Fuct, which started out as an underground, illegal show, and has grown into one of the New York's best comedy troupes, that simply must be seen to be believed.
THE HIDEOUT THEATER
8:00 - Jabbertalky and Improv for Evil
Jabbertalky is one of the most interesting experiences in Austin, featuring a simply set up of an interviewers and 
interviewee, but resulting in some of the most unpredictable and wacky situations possible, and is definitely not one to miss. Also on the schedule is Improv for Evil, a multi-talented group of young improvers who will go above and beyond to give you the best show of the festival.
9:30 - The Double Eagle Film Festival
A collection of short films from some of the funniest people around the country, including a film featuring Rainn Wilson, and guarantee to have audiences busting guts and rolling in the aisles.
There's half a dozen other shows to see tonight, so for more information, as well as directions to each of the venues, but sure to visit the Out of Bounds website at: outofboundsimprov.com.
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