Hoover's Blanket
Hailing from Austin, TX

Hoover's Blanket Presents Benny Hill Street Blues Explosion (& The Jets)

During an extreme moment of clarity, life flashes before the eyes of grizzled detective Sean A. Clober in a montage of Kafkaesque vignettes. Drugs, death and rock-n-roll comically percolate to the surface unlocking a portal of thematically linked dark secrets and hidden agendas.


During the Great Depression of the thirties, the nation needed an injection of comedy to boost its spirits. That’s when Hoover’s Blanket was formed as a part of FDR’s 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, Reagenomics, 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 Foolish Mortals, $10 Bourbon, Parallelogramophonograph and Improv for Evil. Over the past year the Blankets have displayed their madcappery in five shows: The Stone, Reunion Show, Technology Show, Insanity Show and Fresh Strawberries--which won them Best of Week honors at FronteraFest 2006. Expect full-tilt boogie absurdist sketch comedy from these lovable wisecrackers.

Hoover's Blanket is performing a sketch show Thursday at 8pm with Marty Barrett. ----> BUY TICKETS HERE

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