The Improv is Downtown San Jose's incarnation of the Improv Comedy Club, and one of the nicest venues in the national comedy club chain's portfolio

2007 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY Reader Survey Winner - First Place

Best Standup Comedy Venue
With a bad comedian in the White House, we want—we need—some real laughs ... and a couple of stiff drinks in the bargain. That’s where the Improv steps in, with big-name acts (Jamie Kennedy, Eddie Griffin to name a couple of recent headliners), open-mic free-for-alls, a goodly chunk of the annual San Francisco Comedy Competition, cutting-edge standups—all this and dinner too: food for the stomach and the funny bone.
— Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, September 26, 2007