The ColdTowne Theater Cage Match

York99 · Post by **York99** » November 21st, 2006, 10:23 pm

Wesley wrote:Hell, half of improv is bad puns.

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beardedlamb · Post by **beardedlamb** » November 21st, 2006, 11:31 pm

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Wesley · Post by **Wesley** » November 22nd, 2006, 9:30 am

York99 wrote:
Wesley wrote:Hell, half of improv is bad puns.
Die

Well, this is where we stood as of the end of 2005, but I think we need to redo these pie charts.

(I will always love this thread for Christina's chastisement of my poor 'visual display of quantative information' skills.
Edward Tufte joke, thank you! Goodnight!)

York99 · Post by **York99** » November 29th, 2006, 12:11 pm

Wesley wrote:
York99 wrote:
Wesley wrote:Hell, half of improv is bad puns.
Die
Well, this is where we stood as of the end of 2005, but I think we need to redo these pie charts.

(I will always love this thread for Christina's chastisement of my poor 'visual display of quantative information' skills.
Edward Tufte joke, thank you! Goodnight!)

Also place this comment here: http://forum.austinimprov.com/viewtopic.php?t=2161.

[I don't know how to do your fancy hyperlinks that don't look like links.]

If we want long form to be taken seriously as its own form and not "short form's boring cousin," we have to differentiate it. If I want puns and fart jokes, why bother with long form? I'm not saying we shouldn't have fun with long form, but playing to the top of our intelligence garners much richer laughs... and not at the expense of the show and of fellow performers.

Puns are a low form of comedy, according to OHenry Pun Off.

Jules · Post by **Jules** » November 29th, 2006, 1:55 pm

Wesley wrote:
I'd love to find ways to reach out to bands, dancers, poets, chefs (an improvised kitchen stadium at Whole Foods promotion?), j.

YES! That would be so freaking awesome. Years ago, I saw a show in Seattle (which was scripted) that was a cooking show competition between three chefs and at the end of the night the audience got to eat.

One improviser, one chef, yummy fun!

Jules · Post by **Jules** » November 29th, 2006, 1:57 pm

I love this idea too.

Roy Janik wrote:
improvstitute wrote:so what of the idea that these events benefit someone else? that is a great way to get free advertising and an eager audience. We would be giving up profits banking on it getting us future profits that aren't really easily measured. Even so, I feel strongly that benefit events are the way to go...at least some of the time. Say if we did a quarterly event, 2 could go to our pockets and 2 to 2 other organizations like Make-A-Wish Foundation, Safeplace, or Habitat For Humanity (or a billion other charities)

Benefiting others gets another organization or two helping us market the event...and often times to a different group of people. We will make fans just because we were willing to help out.
a 24 improv event could easily be tied into a canned goods drive, I reckon.

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » November 29th, 2006, 1:58 pm

Jules wrote:One improviser, one chef, yummy fun!

Ooh, that'd be fun. How would that work? Would we have to do scenes while baking a pie?

Jules · Post by **Jules** » November 29th, 2006, 2:29 pm

yeah! or maybe acting as sous chef and filling in the back story of the kitchen while the chef cooks.
Or improvising recipes....
sounds souper fun!