Chicken Lips
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Chicken Lips and the World Humor Organization, Inc. (WHO) are an improvisational comedy company which operate not only in the Denver, Colorado
but nationwide across the United States of America. They provide customized entertainment and workshops for businesses and focus groups.
s and customized entertainment
for corporate
, professional
, educational and governmental organizations around the world
. WHO presentations demonstrate the brilliance of laughter
as an innovative means to achieve successful results in creative thinking, communication, teamwork, stress control, customer service, presentation skills, spontaneity and flexibility, change and transition, motivation, and other areas of professional and personal development.
Chicken Lips' entertainment
presents customized music and comedy
performances for businesses, associations, and private events. It is Denver's original and acclaimed improv-based theater.
and president
of the World Humor Organization and Chicken Lips Entertainment. Bob is a Theatrical producer
, director, actor
, choreographer, writer
and teacher
, and has worked with the area's major performing arts organizations, including the Denver Center for the Performing Arts
, Central City Opera
, the Colorado Symphony
and the Colorado Children's Chorale
.
For five years he co-hosted Chicken Lips on the Air!, a comedy/talk show heard on Denver's KHOW
radio. He is co-author of Murder Most Fowl, the popular audience participation comedy mystery, now in its 12th year.
became the home to Chicken Lips & The World Humor Organization providing a base for their operations.
Denver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...
but nationwide across the United States of America. They provide customized entertainment and workshops for businesses and focus groups.
Customized Entertainment
The World Humor Organization presents has been working in Denver for several years providing hands-on workshops for businesses and small focus groups, keynoteKeynote
A keynote in literature, music, or public speaking establishes the principal underlying theme. In corporate or commercial settings, greater importance is attached to the delivery of a keynote speech or keynote address...
s and customized entertainment
Entertainment
Entertainment consists of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is generally passive, such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement, such as sports, are more often considered to be recreation...
for corporate
Corporation
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, professional
Professional
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, educational and governmental organizations around the world
World
World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth....
. WHO presentations demonstrate the brilliance of laughter
Laughter
Laughing is a reaction to certain stimuli, fundamentally stress, which serves as an emotional balancing mechanism. Traditionally, it is considered a visual expression of happiness, or an inward feeling of joy. It may ensue from hearing a joke, being tickled, or other stimuli...
as an innovative means to achieve successful results in creative thinking, communication, teamwork, stress control, customer service, presentation skills, spontaneity and flexibility, change and transition, motivation, and other areas of professional and personal development.
Chicken Lips' entertainment
Entertainment
Entertainment consists of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is generally passive, such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement, such as sports, are more often considered to be recreation...
presents customized music and comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
performances for businesses, associations, and private events. It is Denver's original and acclaimed improv-based theater.
History
Robert Wells is the founderEntrepreneur
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and president
President
A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
of the World Humor Organization and Chicken Lips Entertainment. Bob is a Theatrical producer
Theatrical producer
A theatrical producer is the person ultimately responsible for overseeing all aspects of mounting a theatre production. The independent producer will usually be the originator and finder of the script and starts the whole process...
, director, actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, choreographer, writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
and teacher
Teacher
A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...
, and has worked with the area's major performing arts organizations, including the Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Denver Performing Arts Complex
The Denver Performing Arts Complex located in Denver, Colorado, is the second largest performing arts center in the world after New York City's Lincoln Center. The DPAC is a four-block, site containing ten performance spaces with over 10,000 seats connected by an tall glass roof...
, Central City Opera
Central City Opera
Central City Opera is the fifth-oldest opera company in the United States, founded in 1932. Each festival is presented in the 550-seat historic Central City Opera House built in 1878 in the gold mining era town of Central City, Colorado. Pelham G...
, the Colorado Symphony
Colorado Symphony Orchestra
Colorado’s only full-time professional orchestra, the Colorado Symphony embraces a tradition of musical excellence by presenting a diverse array of symphonic performances throughout the year...
and the Colorado Children's Chorale
Colorado Children's Chorale
The Colorado Children’s Chorale is a singing group in Colorado that was founded in 1974. The Chorale consists of six choirs: Prep choir, Apprentice choir, Concert choir, Regional Tour choir, National Tour choir, and Transitions choir...
.
For five years he co-hosted Chicken Lips on the Air!, a comedy/talk show heard on Denver's KHOW
KHOW
KHOW is a radio station broadcasting a talk radio format to the Denver-Boulder, USA area. The station is currently owned by Clear Channel Communications and features programing from Westwood One, Premiere Radio Networks and ABC Radio....
radio. He is co-author of Murder Most Fowl, the popular audience participation comedy mystery, now in its 12th year.
Moving homes
In May, 2005, the Avenue TheaterAvenue Theater
The Avenue Theater, located at 417 E 17th Avenue in Downtown Denver, Colorado has been a local favorite, producing fine Comedies, Musicals & plays as well as Improvisational comedy for years....
became the home to Chicken Lips & The World Humor Organization providing a base for their operations.
Trivia
- Colin MochrieColin MochrieColin Andrew Mochrie is a Scottish Canadian actor and improvisational comedian, most famous for his appearances on the British and US versions of television improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.-Early life:...
from ABCAmerican Broadcasting CompanyThe American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
's "Whose Line is it Anyway" has worked with the group extensively and highly recommends their work
External links
- Chickenlips' & The WHO's Official Website
- The Avenue Theater is the current base for the organization