-With dark shades covering their eyes and black ties around their necks, Mission Improvable members proved they could associate BENGAY, prophylactics and sex with llamas and more.

Framed by darkness and a spotlight, Mission Improvable, made up of Agents Calvary, Snake Eyes, Chopper, Slingshot and D-Train, sprung onstage. Their mission: the funny.

“You’re never going to make an audience member laugh as hard as your friend. That’s the key – make the audience your friend,” Agent Chopper, Sean Casey, said.

Mission Improvable opened the show with “the bomb,” a soccer ball-sized hamster ball heavily coated in black electrical tape. Inside the bomb were smaller, numbered ping-pong-sized balls.

If the Mission Improvable draws your number, then scream this phrase:

“This is your mission if you should choose to accept it!”

Draw a number, and Mission Improvable deciphers gibberish into the most inane abstraction, like a kayak paddle with a kumquat and a coconut for blades.

Draw another number, and the Mission Improvable “snaps ” on two audience-given nouns — say, Michael Jackson and a toothbrush.

“Your toothbrush is so Michael Jackson that you don’t want to remind your four-year-old son to bring it on a sleepover,” one member said.

And then Mission Improvable ended on that note as the audience erupted into cheer followed by a Residence Hall Association (which sponsored the event) raffle of a Nintendo Gamecube, DVD player, surround sound system and two board games.

To cap the night, Mission Improvable did an encore with “The Challenge.”

The skit started simply enough — the four players told ninja stories. The members cut each other off if the tales were improbable. By the final minutes, the piece imploded on itself and dropped any semblance of ninjas, aside from the ass-kicking and controlled mayhem most great ninjas are notorious for.

Instead, Agent Snake Eyes crept behind another agent and slit his throat. He then flung his tie at another member, stabbed him and uppercut him, ending the piece on a well-known Scorpian catch-phrase:

“Get over here!”

Mission Improvable, the improv group born in Chicago and raised at the University of Massachusetts, tours Midwest colleges improvising and ripping open obscure pop culture references. The group currently is touring the country, recording its best pieces for a sitcom pilot it aims to sell to Spike TV or Comedy Central.

“The TV show is all our eggs in one basket,” Agent Chopper said.

The group also will accept offers from VH1 and the Home and Gardening Channel, Agent Cavalry, Mike Betette, said.