By Don Mayhew / Fresno Bee staff

If there's anything more difficult than two guys performing improv well, it's doing so in front of fewer than 20 people, as The Feast did with "Improver Behavior" on Friday night at dance studio Severance's theater space. Not that it was a tough crowd, just that spontaneity feeds off a tension that mostly empty seats don't generate.

Still, the duo was game, and there were a few insane moments that dared you not to laugh. Where else are you going to hear a cancerous tumor arguing with a dog about losing the family fortune at Chukchansi? (Other inspired dialogue: "I don't like your tone." "Oh? I don't like your pitch.") And since it's improv, it'll be different every time out.

Playing: 3:45 and 10 p.m. Saturday (March 1), 5 p.m. Sunday (March 2) and 3:45 and 6:15 p.m. next Saturday (March 8) at Severance, 1401 N. Wishon Ave. Cost: $7. Rating: PG.