pet peeves

TexasImprovMassacre · Post by **TexasImprovMassacre** » May 7th, 2009, 5:43 am

Dave Pasquesi's Hair isn't long enough.

DollarBill · Post by **DollarBill** » May 7th, 2009, 12:38 pm

mpbrockman wrote:When I get the themes to "Star Wars", "Superman" and the Indiana Jones flicks all mixed up in my head. Damn you John Williams!!!

Is this just me?

I DO IT TOO!!!! I can't tall you how many times I've embarassed myself by singing the wrong one when it didn't apply.

mpbrockman · Post by **mpbrockman** » May 7th, 2009, 3:25 pm

DollarBill wrote:
mpbrockman wrote:When I get the themes to "Star Wars", "Superman" and the Indiana Jones flicks all mixed up in my head. Damn you John Williams!!!

Is this just me?
I DO IT TOO!!!! I can't tall you how many times I've embarassed myself by singing the wrong one when it didn't apply.

Thank you!

TexasImprovMassacre · Post by **TexasImprovMassacre** » May 11th, 2009, 5:43 pm

I keep telling people in scenes that I am willing to fist fight them if I feel challenged...I need to cut it out.

patdaniels · Post by **patdaniels** » May 21st, 2009, 11:01 am

ratliff · Post by **ratliff** » May 21st, 2009, 11:13 am

patdaniels wrote:I get peeved by any reference to the chairs at all: "I've been building this chair." "Do you like my new chairs?" "I can juggle chairs." I think it shows clearly that the performer's focus is on the circumstantial.

You might feel differently if you'd seen Dave Buckman playing a Macedonian stripper whose specialty was eating a chair.

York99 · Post by **York99** » May 21st, 2009, 11:22 am

ratliff wrote:
patdaniels wrote:I get peeved by any reference to the chairs at all: "I've been building this chair." "Do you like my new chairs?" "I can juggle chairs." I think it shows clearly that the performer's focus is on the circumstantial.
You might feel different if you'd seen Dave Buckman playing a Macedonian stripper whose specialty was eating a chair.

... or the PGraph "Chairs" format... but that's probably an obvious exception.

Pdyx · Post by **Pdyx** » May 21st, 2009, 11:25 am

York99 wrote:... or the PGraph "Chairs" format... but that's probably an obvious exception.

Yeah, but I don't think they directly reference the chairs in the scenes (at least at the one P-Graph chairs show I saw in 2008).

mcnichol · Post by **mcnichol** » May 21st, 2009, 11:50 am

Hubris. It kills me when I see/hear it.

ratliff wrote:You might feel differently if you'd seen Dave Buckman playing a Macedonian stripper whose specialty was eating a chair.

My pet peeve with Macedonian strippers is when they don't actually eat their chairs.

kbadr · Post by **kbadr** » May 21st, 2009, 11:52 am

Pdyx wrote:
York99 wrote:... or the PGraph "Chairs" format... but that's probably an obvious exception.
Yeah, but I don't think they directly reference the chairs in the scenes (at least at the one P-Graph chairs show I saw in 2008).

Funny...I don't think we ever did. We just made a spectacle of moving the chairs around to inspire the next scene.

ratliff · Post by **ratliff** » May 21st, 2009, 11:55 am

mcnichol wrote:Hubris. It kills me when I see/hear it.

I'm assuming you mean visible/audible hubris on the part of the improviser, not the character.

I think I know what you mean, but can you give an example?

Preferably a deeply shaming example in which you name names.

mcnichol · Post by **mcnichol** » May 21st, 2009, 12:29 pm

Sorry, I wasn't being clear, I meant the improvisor, off-stage, about him/herself. Maybe it's better to say humility is an attribute I like.

Oh, another pet peeve of mine is Cody Dearing. Man, that guy.

Jastroch · Post by **Jastroch** » May 21st, 2009, 1:51 pm

mcnichol wrote:
Oh, another pet peeve of mine is Cody Dearing. Man, that guy.

That's something we can all get behind...

Roy Janik · Post by **Roy Janik** » May 21st, 2009, 1:54 pm

kbadr wrote:
Pdyx wrote:
York99 wrote:... or the PGraph "Chairs" format... but that's probably an obvious exception.
Yeah, but I don't think they directly reference the chairs in the scenes (at least at the one P-Graph chairs show I saw in 2008).
Funny...I don't think we ever did. We just made a spectacle of moving the chairs around to inspire the next scene.

Really? Damn. I always meant to start every scene with "Hey, look at all these chairs."

York99 · Post by **York99** » May 21st, 2009, 2:47 pm

Pdyx wrote:
York99 wrote:... or the PGraph "Chairs" format... but that's probably an obvious exception.
Yeah, but I don't think they directly reference the chairs in the scenes (at least at the one P-Graph chairs show I saw in 2008).

That assumes that 'reference' strictly means through vocal.... just kidding. I'm not going down the technical, semantic road.