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When I used to make music, for my first and only studio album, I was reviewed by the All Music Guide for the various data banks. In my artist bio I was referred to as eventually becoming a "failed musician", but yet the same writer gave my only album four stars. Haha, I never knew how to take that.
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I like how everything he says comes from the assumption that improv is all "who's line is it anyway?" short form, and anything else provokes anger.beardedlamb wrote:this is the worst review i've ever gotten and easily the funniest. who else has a rough review or quote about one of their shows?
I too detest the word "skit".
On a side note, you played bucket of death! So cool. I've always wanted to play it, but never get around to it.
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i like that the word "skit" is apparently synonymous with sketch, scene, game, entire show and improv.
also, that university students in Iowa are apparently big enough dickheads that several of them will, repeatedly, during an improv show, whisper to each other that they could "throw out jokes better than the ones being told onstage" (which seems an oddly specific turn of phrase for so many people to simultaneously use...)
the "high school improv group" line also makes me giggle, if only for the irony.
also, that university students in Iowa are apparently big enough dickheads that several of them will, repeatedly, during an improv show, whisper to each other that they could "throw out jokes better than the ones being told onstage" (which seems an oddly specific turn of phrase for so many people to simultaneously use...)
the "high school improv group" line also makes me giggle, if only for the irony.

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Same here, but that will change after The Starter Kit's Waffle Fest show next week . . .MitchellD wrote:I like how everything he says comes from the assumption that improv is all "who's line is it anyway?" short form, and anything else provokes anger.beardedlamb wrote:this is the worst review i've ever gotten and easily the funniest. who else has a rough review or quote about one of their shows?
I too detest the word "skit".
On a side note, you played bucket of death! So cool. I've always wanted to play it, but never get around to it.
Also, the word skit is used way too much in that article. And it feels like an eighth-grade student wrote it. An eighth-grade student who was trying desperately to stretch the words and put in as much filler as possible to meet a word requirement.
Also, phrases like "But not everyone hated the performance.", "While Available Cup Holders was not absolutely horrible,", "The next skit would take about 40 minutes." made me laugh.
"The audience was asked for an occupation at the beginning of the skit. The first few suggestions, even though they were being voiced quite strongly by the crowd, were turned down until mortician came up and the comedians found that acceptable."
- They bad. They no pick my suggestion. I don't like them.
The rest has too much stuff to quote, but it's the definition of "hater". Kinda makes me wonder how he became editor of a newspaper. I've got a sneaking suspicion it was because he didn't get his suggestion picked.
"The audience was asked for an occupation at the beginning of the skit. The first few suggestions, even though they were being voiced quite strongly by the crowd, were turned down until mortician came up and the comedians found that acceptable."
- They bad. They no pick my suggestion. I don't like them.
The rest has too much stuff to quote, but it's the definition of "hater". Kinda makes me wonder how he became editor of a newspaper. I've got a sneaking suspicion it was because he didn't get his suggestion picked.
Oh and that title "Available Cup Holders not so great" What a hilariously sub part title. Just imagine if "_______ not so great" was the front page article on the Austin American Statesman.
Hey Jill. I liked your video. Made me smile. So did the large amount of people who jumped on the bashing bandwagon without realizing it was a parody.
Hey Jill. I liked your video. Made me smile. So did the large amount of people who jumped on the bashing bandwagon without realizing it was a parody.
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OMG. I just realized that this article came out of Stormy Lake, Iowa.
I'm from Iowa.
My mom's uncle Robert had to escort a friend's body back from Vietnam to Stormy Lake in the
late 60s. He then had to return back to the war. On his short visit, he did not want to see any
of the women he knew. The war shook him up and he couldn't handle seeing the women
after being in combat.
Crazy.
I'm from Iowa.
My mom's uncle Robert had to escort a friend's body back from Vietnam to Stormy Lake in the
late 60s. He then had to return back to the war. On his short visit, he did not want to see any
of the women he knew. The war shook him up and he couldn't handle seeing the women
after being in combat.
Crazy.
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it's true what they say...war is skit.HerrHerr wrote:OMG. I just realized that this article came out of Stormy Lake, Iowa.
I'm from Iowa.
My mom's uncle Robert had to escort a friend's body back from Vietnam to Stormy Lake in the
late 60s. He then had to return back to the war. On his short visit, he did not want to see any
of the women he knew. The war shook him up and he couldn't handle seeing the women
after being in combat.
Crazy.
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YIKES!the_reverend wrote:it's true what they say...war is skit.HerrHerr wrote:OMG. I just realized that this article came out of Stormy Lake, Iowa.
I'm from Iowa.
My mom's uncle Robert had to escort a friend's body back from Vietnam to Stormy Lake in the
late 60s. He then had to return back to the war. On his short visit, he did not want to see any
of the women he knew. The war shook him up and he couldn't handle seeing the women
after being in combat.
Crazy.
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Re: worst review you ever got?
I would have reviewed Joplin's sweet ass hair.beardedlamb wrote:
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Zach wrote:
I would have reviewed Joplin's sweet ass hair.
You were at the show? The vantage point of this photo offers nothing.
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