Los Angeles, CA
B-Movies A+ Improv
Los Angeles, CA
B-Movies A+ Improv
// Upcoming Events //
Krsy Fox is joining the Freaks onstage on the heels of her new breakout slasher hit Big Baby! Krsy not only stars in the film, but she also produced and edited it with her husband and collaborator writer/director Spider One. From Little Bites to Terrifier 3 and the upcoming Hannah Goes to Hell, we're going to have a riot of a good time with this unstoppable Scream Queen.
We're taking the Freaks to Midsummer Scream – the ultimate Halloween and horror convention with the legend himself Barry Bostwick as our Scream King. Dammit Janet, you will not want to miss this one! Come find us at the convention!
Follow @CackleFreaksComedy for show announcements and ticket links.
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// What Is Cackle Freaks? //
Think ASSSSCAT at the Upright Citizens Brigade, but with a twisted genre spin. Cackle Freaks is a live improv comedy show where our cast of improvisors riffs off clips from horror movies to fuel the comedy scenes.
Each show opens with The Cackle Freak (Thayer Juergens) interviewing a special guest from the horror world – our Scream Royalty of the night. Past guests include Barbara Crampton, David Dastmalchian, Doug Jones, David Howard Thornton, Michael Rosenbaum, and more.
It's always a packed house of horror and comedy fans, and the vibe is pure celebration of the genre – with horror trivia and prizes at the end, donated by our sponsors at Discount Cemetery.
Interview with Scream Royalty
The Cackle Freak sits down with a horror icon to open the show. The conversation fuels the improvisors with material they'll pull from all night.
Improv Inspired by Horror Clips
The cast takes scenes directly from horror films as their launching pad – and what follows is chaotically hilarious comedy.
Guest Comics from Film and TV
Every show features guest comedians with credits from Curb Your Enthusiasm, Parks and Rec, Fallout, Drunk History, and more alongside the core cast.
Horror Trivia and Prizes
We close every show with horror trivia on stage. Winners walk away with horror-themed prizes donated by our sponsors at Discount Cemetery.
// Past Guests //
Every Cackle Freaks show opens with an interview with a horror icon. These are the legends who've taken the throne.
Re-Animator, From Beyond, Castle Freak
Chopping Mall, Night of the Comet
Barbarian
Late Night with the Devil, Suicide Squad, Dune
Terrifier, The Mean One, Screamboat
Ash vs Evil Dead, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Sleepaway Camp, Terrifier 2, Return to Sleepaway Camp
Popcorn, The Stepfather, The Phantom of the Opera
Urban Legend, Smallville, Justice League
Pan's Labyrinth, Hocus Pocus, The Shape of Water, Hellboy
Final Destination: Bloodlines, Black Phone 2, Gotham Knights, Doom Patrol
The Fog, Creepshow, Swamp Thing
// Your Cacklin' Host //
Your Host
The Cackle Freak is the star of the 1995 Stuart Gordon masterpiece CASTLE FREAK and has since then...never worked. They found him in the basement of Charles Band's castle and based the movie partially on his life story. The Freak thought it'd be his ticket to stardom and he's auditioned to be everything from a deadite to a zombie, yet sadly he hasn't caught a break. After all he's got a face for radio. His BARBARIAN audition came close though...
Now he hosts his own horror comedy show where he can bring in his colleagues and "peers" from the horror world. Some he's worked with like Barbara Crampton and some took that BARBARIAN part from him like Matthew Patrick Davis.
// The People Behind It //
Creator and Host
Thayer Juergens is a Los Angeles-based producer, film executive, and die-hard horror fan. Recent films include Playdate starring Alan Ritchson and Kevin James, Solo Mio starring Kevin James, Junkie EP'ed by Patty Jenkins, and the recently released The Get Out starring Russell Crowe, Aaron Paul, Nina Dobrev, and Luke Evans. Upcoming projects include the sci-fi horror comedy No Late Fees, which he's producing alongside Dead Meat Productions and Long Shot Productions. He is also producing the Zack Stentz-led murder mystery series Murder as a Fine Art for television. And aside from that...yes, he performs as The Cackle Freak.
Creator and Core Cast
Sean Reidy is a comedian and screenwriter who is the co-host of Cackle Freaks (the straight man of the interview) and performs in the improv portion of the show. Sean was raised in Georgia, went to school in Boston, moved to New York City, and now has completed the great migration of all creatives and lives in Los Angeles.
His work has appeared on Disney+ and VH1. He's also written for celebrities like Jeff Goldblum and Julia Louis Dreyfus. Sean also owns two cats and a pitbull who lives in fear of said cats.
Producer and Core Cast
Emily Mathwich is a comedian and producer for Cackle Freaks and also performs in the improv portion of the show. Emily is from rural Maryland and spent most of her adult life performing improv in NYC before moving to Los Angeles.
Emily has performed in multiple long-running shows and teams at The PIT in NYC, recently guested in Hunkamania at UCB, and was also featured in Funny or Die and for her post-apocalyptic one-woman show "Hey Siri. Am I Gonna Die?" In her day job she works at Wags and Walks rescuing dogs.
Core Cast
Michael Delisle is an actor, writer and improviser based in Los Angeles. He's the co-creator of Official Home Sweet Home on Instagram with his partner Brittany Lee McDonald. Originally from Florida, he has been featured on Netflix, Comedy Central, Funny or Die, Huffington Post, and Nickelodeon, as well as commercials for Popeyes, Robitussin, M&M's, Amazon Prime, and Dunkin Donuts. You can see him perform every month with the Cackle Freaks.
Core Cast
Caroline Martin is an improviser, writer, and actor. She co-created and starred in Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show, a sketch comedy series that premiered on Netflix in December 2019, executive produced by Kenya Barris and Dan Powell. She was a staff writer for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. She most recently worked on the Hulu show How To Die Alone. She is the winner of the 2014 NBC & UCB Diversity Scholarship Showcase, and 2016 Comedy Central NY Comedy Festival Comic to Watch. She performs improv comedy around Los Angeles and received a B.A. in Ethnic Studies from Brown University.
Core Cast
Allan McLeod is an Alabama-born, Los Angeles-based actor, writer, director, and host of the podcast Walkin' About. His acting credits include Apple TV's Pluribus, Hulu's Interior Chinatown, five seasons as Paul Gillian on the FX/Hulu series You're the Worst, a recurring role as Trodd Frankenstein on Parks and Recreation, and Disney Pixar's Monsters University. As a comedian and storyteller, he appeared for six seasons on Comedy Central's Drunk History. On the writing side, Allan got his start in sketch and improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in L.A. before joining the staff at Funny or Die, where he wrote for projects including Billy on the Street and Red Nose Day.
// Past Guest Comedians //
// Work With Us //
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