The Comic Evangelists, the world’s first Christian improv team, travel to a Toronto comedy festival, but their secrets and lies threaten to destroy them.
In the small mid-western town of Kalamazoo, Michigan, we meet the Comic Evangelists, the world’s first improv troupe on a mission from God. We follow the team’s rise from obscurity through the eyes of three longtime friends – Rick Stevenson, a control freak with a Messiah complex, Noah Fillobien, his dopey sidekick, and Nigel Karuthers, a theater geek with a secret. When Nigel suggests that Comic Evangelists enter the Toronto International Improv Festival, the group immediately leaps at the chance to spread the word of the Lord to a wider audience.
Joining the trio are a motley but spirited cast of characters including Beth Winters, a nurturing mother figure; Hillary Anderson, the group’s naïve, guitar-toting minstrel; Boniva Brown, a newcomer trying to find her place in the group; and the Gautiers, Sabrina and Jerry, a father and daughter with their own set of issues. Along for the ride is the Gautier’s neighbor, atheist divorcé Blane Edwards, who has no idea of the team’s agenda for him.
Despite Nigel’s insistence that the group follow the festival rules and submit a formal application, team leader Rick decides to just “let them know we’re coming” and assume they are welcome to perform. Their trip goes downhill from there.
COMIC EVANGELISTS will leave audiences roaring with laughter and praising the comedic powers that be.