Austin Improv

TexasImprovMassacre wrote:

beardedlamb wrote:i wanted to premeditate a point in an improv show where i throw up on stage for real but the jury wouldn't let me. wisely, i imagine.

i've also thought about how insane it would be for someone (not me) to kill themselves during an improv show. this has some serious ramifications, obviously, but it would go down as some crazy improv lore.

Just wait for my improvised one man show depicting the life of GG Allin.

Or Phil Aulie's Epicac show.

kbadr wrote: We'll need to start marketing to people with monocles if you ever want someone to speak so formally about a show.

Indeed. It seems I forgot our target demographic.
Let me try again...

I did not meant to imply that I wanted to elevate the art form to the realm of "socially relevent and informative."
What I meant to say was that I am content with and want to tell the WORLD'S FUNNIEST FART JOKE(TM) while doing a scene in which I am a taxidermist who has been hired by a crippled, cancer-ridden orphan-lady to stuff her dead herpes-ridden cat with monkey spunk.
That, and that alone, is my new improv goal.

Cody, it's total bullshit that you are just dangling this over our heads, like some sort of comedy carrot. I need to see the GG Allin show ASAP. (sans death)

this is probably going to sound all saccarine-laced bullshit, but it's the troof: i'd be honored if a show i did inspired other funny girlladies to pursue comedy. das it.

what if maybe a show of yours had inspired a not-very-masculine boy?

I've always wanted to experience that moment of perfect out-of-body-yet-still-in-the-scene clarity where I say something spontaneous and brilliant, and just as I'm saying it I realize that it IS undoubtedly spontaneous and brilliant, and I get to savor the microsecond of total alertness wherein I am simulataneously consciously aware of what I am doing while unconsciously doing it. That would be sweet.

I've also wanted to do a back flip from a stand-still in the midst of some show, but I quit practicing gymnastics in fifth grade and now I'm so tall and lanky I'm afraid that (a) I'll kick a bunch of lights and bring them shattering down on top of myself; or (b) I'll only get halfway around and land on my head and neck, doing a Million Dollar Baby on myself.

the_orf wrote:I've always wanted to experience that moment of perfect out-of-body-yet-still-in-the-scene clarity.

I would like to reach a level of spiritually clear improv where I can improvise a scene completely out of body. A 100% spirit-plane improv. Yup, that's what it's all about.

The IPECAC show is coming.

No one knows where or when or how but me. But it will happen within this year, I promise.

Wesley wrote:Make a real, honest to god, dramatic, thoughtful, provoking, political point that people leave thinking about and saying "man, that artform wasn't just entertaining, it actually had something to say and I'm going to remember and think about it."

You can check that off your life list, Wes -- already happened.

Roy Janik wrote:My dream is to perform to an audience full of people with monocles.

In New Orleans we did a ComedySportz show at a street festival where there were a bunch of mimes watching on. They mimed laughter, no kidding. It was awful, but I knew I would love that moment for the rest of my life.

York99 wrote:

Wesley wrote:Make a real, honest to god, dramatic, thoughtful, provoking, political point that people leave thinking about and saying "man, that artform wasn't just entertaining, it actually had something to say and I'm going to remember and think about it."

You can check that off your life list, Wes -- already happened.

Details, York. Was it his eloquent last-minute plea to vote Libertarian in the Texas Railroad Commissioners race or his stirring utopian vision of everyone in the world buying hardback copies of Atlas Shrugged and beating each other to death with them?