Austin Improv

"if i weren't bleeding profusely out of my eye sockets I'd swear you were a father who was never there for me"
-me in a future show TBA

From last night's Love Notes show, after Franklin (Avi) returns a pie to Rachel (Chelsea) and breaks up with her:
      "Franklin, we can work this out! I can make other things! Like cupcakes! And babies!"



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There is too much programming on TV, and too little time in life, to spend that time with just-reliably-OK TV shows.
      -- James Poniewozik

From the 5/15 Andersons:

Mitch (Vines): Who do you pick to win the Butterfield/Toastfield game?
Mr. Anderson (Kareem): Well, I'd have to say that Butterfield will come out on top.

or something like that.

Kacey and Teresa playing with an audience member as the one word at a time expert in philosophy...

Question: "Does God exist?"

Teresa/Audience/Kacey: "No...He...does."

perfect.

the_reverend wrote:Kacey and Teresa playing with an audience member as the one word at a time expert in philosophy...

Question: "Does God exist?"

Teresa/Audience/Kacey: "No...He...does."

perfect.

Nice.

Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away

Curtis, in the last minute of the 41 hour improv marathon, revealing what he learned from doing improv for 41 hours:

"I learned that, basically, I can do whatever I want, because I'm a God and I'm invulnerable."

Curtis, hour 19, entering a scene in a Dancy Street musical show that had become increasingly whimsical, like a fairy-tale fable:

"Laundry ladies, this may not surprise you at this point, but I am an enchanted tree."

Made me spit-take my morning coffee just like in a Benny Hill sketch.

Not the best line taken out of context, but in the last hour of the Hideout's 41 Hour marathon, as the players were trying to wrap up their wacky "Greenhouse" narrative involving competing teams of scientists vying for world domination via plants...

Roy (to the other 7 players): "For God's sake, just let me get out this essential plot point!"

Bill: (makes noise and gestures)

Roy: "And then he's next!!"

... or something like that.

sfarr2 wrote: Roy (to the other 7 players): "For God's sake, just let me get out this essential plot point!"

Bill: (makes noise and gestures)

Roy: "And then he's next!!"

I really tried to do my best to not go meta or commenty in the Marathon, but sometimes I just couldn't think of anything else to do.

Bill Arnett's concept of the "two shows" of improv helps me come to terms with it, though. It's just playing the "bunch of people onstage improvising" show, and that's not a bad thing.

A couple of my favorites from the Marathon:

"Pin hug! Pin hug!"
-Curtis, during his dubbed re-imagining of the final scene from There Will Be Blood


"And I don't have a name, so don't try to learn it."
-Bill, in the Hour 31 Maestro, when he and Bryan were trying to do a scene that would score a 1


"It's not my fault that I have a beard. It's not my fault that my shoes have socks."
-Curtis, in the Hour 31 Maestro, explaining to his siblings why they shouldn't necessarily see him as the responsible one

Roy Janik wrote:

sfarr2 wrote: Roy (to the other 7 players): "For God's sake, just let me get out this essential plot point!"

Bill: (makes noise and gestures)

Roy: "And then he's next!!"

I really tried to do my best to not go meta or commenty in the Marathon, but sometimes I just couldn't think of anything else to do.

Bill Arnett's concept of the "two shows" of improv helps me come to terms with it, though. It's just playing the "bunch of people onstage improvising" show, and that's not a bad thing.

During The Starter Kit show, you looked over at Zach and said, "That's a really nice coat" more than once. It was amusing as hell.

It is a really nice coat too.

A couple of Marathon quotes:

"We enrolled in naughty tennis academy for a reason!" - Val
"Thomas Alba Edison's body found refuge in your sleeping leg!" - Curtis
"I don't understand this amusement park!" - E. Heiberg

"Dicks are for shuckin' and jivin'." David Prejeant at snubfest.

Jon Bolden's entire standup routine as Gandalf from Lord of the Rings. I wish I could remember specific lines but I was cackling too hard.....

the_reverend wrote:Kacey and Teresa playing with an audience member as the one word at a time expert in philosophy...

Question: "Does God exist?"

Teresa/Audience/Kacey: "No...He...does."

perfect.

That is freakin awesome!!!