Hoover's Blanket presents Best of Show: Choicest Cuts of Hoover's Blanket
Do dogs dream in color - or in pieces? - of a consumer culture gone cannibal, of a mad scientist gone Andy Gibb, of a slam poetry night gone horribly wrong? Hoover's Blanket, voted 2006 best sketch troupe, gives you the cream of their crop, filtered through a dog with a brain tilted to revenge. Satiric, absurdist, always beyond sketch comedy.

During the Great Depression of the thirties, the nation needed an injection of comedy to boost its spirits. Thats when Hoover's Blanket was formed as a part of FDRs New Deal. The vaudevillian comedy duo of Leopold and Bloom took advantage of the Federal Comics Coalition and hit the radio waves, taking the nation by storm! Bread lines became laugh lines, as those first two lovable laugh icons laid the foundation for Hoover's Blanket to become an institution of yucks for decades to come.
By giving audiences exactly what they want and nothing they expect, the Blankets have survived radical cast changes and varying social and political climes of this great nation through the jingoistic forties, mad-cap fifties, psychedelic sixties, sultry seventies, Reaganomics, the indistinguishable nineties and the roaring zeros.
After a respite from the comedy world, Hoover's Blanket reformed in Austin, Texas in July of 2005 and is comprised of improvisers from the local swinging improv scene. The current roster includes performers from $10 Bourbon, Look Cookie and Improv for Evil.

Hoover's Blanket is performing a sketch show Wednesday at 8:00pm with You're Fat
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-Reviews and Accolades-
Winner Best Sketch Group Austin Improv Collective 2006

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