Once a month, students at Oak Park High participate and compete in a variety of improv games known as "Comedy Sportz." 

Jeremy Orriss gets the team ready to compete in their upcoming match with a variety of warm up games. The matches take place about once a month during the school year.

One of the games, called "I Can Do it Better," is where upstaging and overacting will earn your team points.

The senior manager of the Oak Park High comedy sports team has been participating in the sport since he's been at the school and he first learned about it when his sister grace joined the team.

"She was a freshman when I was in seventh grade and I'd never seen it before, never really seen improv before and I was absolutely blown away," says Orriss.

The head-to-head match-up of improvisational acting has been around since the late 80s. Some improv professionals have gone on to work for programs such as The Daily Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live.

In the last 15 years nearly 80 high school programs have joined the ranks of Comedy Sportz. In November, an event at Oak Park helped raise nearly $1,000 for victims of the Woolsey Fire.

"I think the main reason people end up joining us because they think it's a lot of fun and they think it's a really cool thing to do that may just help them with confidence," said Orriss.

Amongst comedy improvisers, it's widely believed that participating in improv can help people build a higher emotional intelligence which can then translate into building better relationships with your peers.

"Sort of that culture in that environment seeps just into our regular social lives as a team and it seems outside of improv," says Orriss.

"And so that I think, really helps everyone just feel comfortable and confident with themselves."