For a group of entertainers whose job it is to make people laugh, there sure are a lot of cutthroat assholes working the comedy circuit. The vacant seats that open Don’t Think Twice are reserved for a six-person improv troupe whose numbers dwindle like Agatha Christie’s “Indians” as the top-floaters are gradually reeled in by network scouts. What happens when one realizes one doesn’t have what it takes to make one’s dream come true? It’s a question stand-up-turned-writer-director Mike Birbiglia (Sleepwalk with Me) continues to turn over in his race to be terminally left-behind. The skilled cast — four professional autoschediasts (Birbiglia, Keegan-Michael Key, Tami Sagher, and Chris Gethard) and a pair of unseasoned quick learners (Gillian Armstrong and Kate Micucci) — plays musical chairs, much to the calculated discomfort of the audience in this nasty, poignant, and frequently laugh-out-loud hilarious chomp on the hand that feeds them. (2016) — Scott Marks
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