While some might say that it is the build-up to a joke that sets the humour for the audience, one can very well argue that it is in the spontaneity of a punch line, that one moment of revelation which brings out the laugh. This skill of cracking a joke on spot or improv comedy, as it is called, will be the deciding criteria for city-based collective, Negative School’s Improv Cage Brawl scheduled at a city venue this Friday.

Artistes act out a slide show during an improv performance