TCU school laughs it up with Four Day Weekend

At nearly 19 years of age, it’s high time Four Day Weekend went to college.

From their beginning in the long-gone Casa on the Square theater downtown, the members of the Fort Worth-based improv comedy troupe have taught audiences to lighten up. Now they are taking their success to Texas Christian University.

Four Day Weekend is the new entrepreneur-in-residence at the TCU Neeley School of Business, training business leaders how to listen and react quickly the same way improv comedians David Ahearn, David Wilk and Frank Ford do every weekend night in one of America’s longest-running comedy shows.

When Four Day Weekend came downtown in 1997, the show was supposed to last six weeks. With Ahearn as emcee, Wilk as straight man and Ford and others as characters, they have become the city’s celebrities-in-residence.

They’re perfect for TCU. Considering the price of oil, everyone in business needs a good laugh.

This story was originally published January 28, 2016 at 5:55 PM with the headline "TCU school laughs it up with Four Day Weekend."