I went to a comedysportz class level 1 class - to just check out the
program. It was the most awful, painful, long... experience. I wanted
to throw a chair thru the window and jump out, screaming.

The first 45 minutes involved the teacher explaining (/selling) the
history of comedysportz, in great unnecessary detail. The details and
anecdotes were amusing to him, but nobody else. Some of it seemed like
him testing his jokes on us.

Finally, we stood up and were going to do some improv! But instead of
improv, we did retarded warm up exercises. OK, to do *some* retarded
warm up exercises, but it went on too long.

And every explanation for anything was beat over 3-4 times. The
instructor would explain a point, animate it (like a stand up), but
then repeat, repeat, repeat. (This is when I was going to throw the
chair..). I could see the desperation on some of the other people's
faces.