When The Committee disbanded in 1972, improv company "Improvisation, Inc." was the only company in America continuing to perform the group's "original" Harold: a 45-minute free-form piece that would seamlessly move from one "Harold technique" to another. In 1974, in Los Angeles, former Committee member Gary Austin co-founded The Groundlings, using improv-as-a-tool. In 1976, two former "Improvisation, Inc." performers, Michael Bossier and John Elk, formed "Spaghetti Jam", performing in San Francisco's Old Spaghetti Factory through 1983. "Spaghetti Jam" performed Harolds while also turning Spolin games and Harold techniques into stand-alone performance pieces (i.e., shortform improv).