Austin Improv

Dave Pasquesi's Hair isn't long enough.

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.

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!

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 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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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."

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.