What with all this heckling, Schultz's stand-up routine has been reduced from an engaging monolouge to a rather belligerent discourse with the rowdy audience. The final slap in the face comes when Schultz is unfairly compared to another, admittedly dissimilar comedian.

"I'm not trying to be Denis Leary," murmurs a bemused Schultz before proceeding to pacify his audience with an X-rated joke about catfood commercials.

"There were some obnoxious people in the audience that night," says Phillip 'Flip' Schultz a couple of days later. "I don't mind hecklers, but they were just plain rude."

A stand-up comedian since the age of 8, Schultz is the most experienced member of the improvisational comedy troupe Rebels Without Applause. Too young to vote, too old for curfews, Rebels Without Applause reeks of teen spirit. And Clearasil.

Born out of improvisational classes conducted at the Theatre Company of Plantation, Rebels Without Applause can best be described as an adolescent alternative to Broward County's very own Comics Anonymous. While the improvisational games and scripted sketches the troupe perform elicit plaudits from their peers, these teenagers could hardly be characterized as satirical insurrectionists. These politically naive comics would rather spend 70 minutes lampooning the pop culture landscape adn meditating on sex, though it's doubtful that they or their audiences would know the difference between a G spot and a G-string.

"I suggested the name," says Schultz. "It's a pun. People laugh at the name."

The prudish, however, may not laugh at the humor Rebels Without Applause peddle, but at times it is no worse than what might be overheard in every schoolyard across the nation. Politically incorrect they may be, but Rebels Without Applause have a long way to go before they make Howard Stern or Andrew Dice Clay look like members of the clergy.

"Comedy doesn't have to be dirty to be funny," insists Gary Wayne, the Children's Theater instructor who teaches the improvisational class at the theater. As hard as Wayne may strive to keep the shows as clean as possible, he is not likely to succeed when the audiences dictate the rhythm and content of the shows. Rebels Without Applause is, of course, comedy for teenagers by teenagers, and teenagers are notorious for their preoccupation with sex. Schultz concedes Rebels Without Applause is "not exempt from profanity," but argues that the troupe does not "go over the limit of taste. It's difficult, because when someone shouts out a suggestion, the first reaction is to go with it but not think about the consequences."

The roots of Rebels Without Applause can be traced back to the Drama Center in Deerfield Beach, where Wayne had created his first teen improvisational comedy troupe, Action Reaction. Intrigued by what Wayne had achieved at the Drama Center, Floren Lefebvre, cofounder and president of the Theatre Company of Plantation, invited Wayne to instruct an improvisational class at the theater.

"I think improvisation is the basis of what theater is about," says Lefebrve, who is responsible for overseeing the theater's children and teen classes and productions. "Take away the scripted material and improvisation helps to strengthen the imagination and other creative activities."

Rebels Without Applause may have "started as an improvisational class," explains the 35-year-old Wayne, but, as the students felt they would be "learning comedy, they should go out and do it in public." Good response to the four trial shows performed over two weekends last December led the theater to book Rebels Without Applause every Friday night at 11 p.m. for an indefinite period of time.

"Since this is improv performed by teenagers, we wanted to get teenagers in," says Wayne. "So instead of just cruising around, teenagers will have a place to go Friday nights."

"We don't want to transcend the teenage crowd, but we would like adults to come," says Schultz. "Teenagers seem to like us, and that's important."

Show use both scripted material and improvisational exercises. Scripted material is usually conceived during the improvisational classes, worked on during the week and fine-tuned during rehearsals. A mock Public Service Announcement warns men not to badger their spouses, or fall prey to the "Clip and Flip Syndrome," a la John Bobbit. Sam's World, starring Schultz and sidekick Charlie Brennan as elderly Jewish versions of Wayne and Garth, features a countdown of the Top Eight Hannukkah Presents. At number seven, shooting in with a bullet, is a sponge-bath from Estelle Getty.

Those familiar with the British comedy series Whose Line Is It Anyway? will be aquainted with the improvisational exercises Rebels Without Applause perform.

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