Getting Recognized

[Jon Bolden]

Let's have a Maestro with an all dog audience and have Kim play.

"Was that scene one bark? two barks?"

[Spots]

"Mastro: Pavlovian Style Improv"

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

"Mastro"

...okay, that just sounds like another kind of format entirely.

[DollarBill]

I was standing in line for a show at iO in Chicago. I was telling my friend about a show we did in Sarasota that was KILLER. He was reluctant to believe that it was as good as I was saying.

Just then, a woman walked by and said, "I think I just saw you in a show in Sarasota. It was so good. You guys were the best we saw."

Eff you, friend I was standing in line with (Nick Leveski)!!! Thank you, universe for always sticking it to Nick Leveski.

[Katie T.]

I got recognized by a stranger once and was super chuffed. It was on the street right after we saw Kevin McDonald at OOB, so I was confused because we're in the middle of this huge improv festival. But, that guy didn't know that! He had seen a Mash show a few months back and could recall the whole show. I felt really cool and appreciate this opportunity to tell y'all... Lil ol' me got recognized. I ain't even an improv star!

[Alex Gray]

I am pretty new to Improv so nothing there yet but I have been playing a Villain character named Lord Vile around town for about 3 years and I get recognized every couple of months. It is odd because as Vile I have Henchmen so the encounters sometimes involve salutes and people calling me "Boss" or "My Lord". As much fun as that can be it is weird when I am out on a date or at work. I'm also not in character and they expect me to be so I end up forced to play with them a little. I usually playfully chastise them about my being "incognito" and send them on their way.

[Kim]

Let's have a Maestro with an all dog audience and have Kim play.

"Was that scene one bark? two barks?"

I read that this morning, and it's been bubbling up in my mind and re-delighting me all day. Thanks, Jon!

[Jeff]

Less than a week ago, I was having a beer by myself at a table at The Parlor. I saw a very pretty woman sitting alone at the bar, and I walked over and sat next to her to talk. Within a minute, before I introduced myself, she said, "You're in Confidence Men, aren't you?"

That was kinda neat--there I was, being a confident man, chatting up a stranger at a bar, and she recognizes me as one of the Confidence Men.

After we talked some more, I recognized her as being a performer in Biography of Physical Sensation, an interactive performance in which she had personally fed me a slice of apple, an anchovy, and some cheese.

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

Less than a week ago, I was having a beer by myself at a table at The Parlor. I saw a very pretty woman sitting alone at the bar, and I walked over and sat next to her to talk. Within a minute, before I introduced myself, she said, "You're in Confidence Men, aren't you?"

That was kinda neat--there I was, being a confident man, chatting up a stranger at a bar, and she recognizes me as one of the Confidence Men.

After we talked some more, I recognized her as being a performer in Biography of Physical Sensation, an interactive performance in which she had personally fed me a slice of apple, an anchovy, and some cheese.

please marry her, if only so this can be the story at your wedding.

[Jeff]

please marry her, if only so this can be the story at your wedding.

I am not opposed to that prospect. She is very nice. I should see if she will go on a date with me.

[David Lampe]

My favorite was when I was leading a tour of high school kids through Europe. We had just finished a tour of a diamond market in Amsterdam and were sitting in their gift/coffee shop when someone came up and asked if I was the guy who performed with the Oxymorons in San Antonio. I was quite taken aback, granted she was a tourist from San Antonio just happening to visit at the same time, but ever since then I have claimed to be internationally famous.

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

My favorite was when I was leading a tour of high school kids through Europe. We had just finished a tour of a diamond market in Amsterdam and were sitting in their gift/coffee shop when someone came up and asked if I was the guy who performed with the Oxymorons in San Antonio. I was quite taken aback, granted she was a tourist from San Antonio just happening to visit at the same time, but ever since then I have claimed to be internationally famous.

she was also probably high.

[apiaryist]

Fact: I've never been approached about being recognized.

Also Fact: I walk around looking like a Serial Killer most of the time.

Related? You make the call.

[jillybee72]

The other week we were eating dinner at a restaurant where the tables were close together. A man stood up at an adjacent table and turned around, and was oddly close to me. He did the double-take of recognizing me, I let him work on it for a while because he really thought it was a personal relationship. I finally said, "I'm on a KS95 commercial right now..." And he said, "Ohhhhh....that's it" and had to squeeze his way out between the tables.

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[Asaf]

There is a guy who saw me guest in a Knuckleball Now show who greets me when he sees me on the street by imitating the lovesick Yeti that I played in the set. Which means he growl like a bear and then draws a heart.

I've run into him twice.