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Hey Fred Schneider, What're You Doin'?
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 7:43 am
by York99
I'm cameoin' on The Daily Show
And makin' Justin laugh
BEST WARM UP EVER!!!!
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 9:49 am
by DollarBill
Weeeeeeird, I JUST learned this warmup last weekend at my playground auditions. Did you just hear of it too? What rat on which boat brought the Schneider warmup seed to Austin? Or is it indigenous?
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 10:52 am
by Jastroch
ColdTowne got it in Phoenix.
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 10:53 am
by vine311
The Austin version is "Hey Tom Booker, what name are you dropping?"
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 10:56 am
by ChrisTrew.Com
edit: i got it from Cog at iO West before a show during Christmas
Posted: June 4th, 2008, 12:40 am
by York99
ChrisTrew.Com wrote:edit: i got it from Cog at iO West before a show during Christmas
edit: I got it from Chris Trew in Janua.... oh, right.
Posted: June 4th, 2008, 2:39 pm
by Lants
Avoiding Salmonella
By cleaning this SPATULA!
it's a pretty sweet game, alright!
Posted: June 4th, 2008, 3:58 pm
by Lindsey
Okay true story: first time I did this game, I kept wondering what a french diner was (as in, "Hey french diner, what are you doin?")
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 1:11 am
by TexasImprovMassacre
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 8:46 am
by LisaJackson
So you're really excited about the 99 cent shakes at Sonic.
So I just learned that there is no cent symbol on the keyboard.
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 1:19 pm
by TexasImprovMassacre
LisaJackson wrote:
So you're really excited about the 99 cent shakes at Sonic.
So I just learned that there is no cent symbol on the keyboard.
1.) lisa jackson, yes, I do like shakes!
2.) YES! I dooooo like deals!
3.) did you watch the clip after the ad?
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 4:48 pm
by Jeff
TexasImprovMassacre wrote:LisaJackson wrote:
So you're really excited about the 99 cent shakes at Sonic.
So I just learned that there is no cent symbol on the keyboard.
1.) lisa jackson, yes, I do like shakes!
2.) YES! I dooooo like deals!
3.) did you watch the clip after the ad?
I bet she did! Did you know that this thread starts with Justin saying (or implying) he had seen that clip?
Thanks for posting the link, by the way. I hadn't seen it before you did.
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 5:10 pm
by vine311
We've got our finger on the pulse of America here people.
Posted: June 14th, 2008, 12:19 pm
by York99
Jeff wrote:Did you know that this thread starts with Justin saying (or implying) he had seen that clip?
Indeed that was the point, but I reserve the right for me and for any of you to post about Fred Schneider apropos of nothing.
Posted: June 18th, 2008, 10:35 am
by jose
Phoenix got it from Andrew Humphries, a friend of ours in Chicago, in December 2007 - he's in The Republic, a Harold team from IO. He was visiting for the holidays and brought it to Bingo Jam.
What's funny is that right off the bat, two (meaningless) variations of it sprung up immediately on accident.
Andrew, most of us remember, introduced it as "What's Fred Schneider doing?"
Jacque of Mail Order Bride couldn't remember Fred's last name, so she changed it to "Hey there, Fred, what are you doing?"
(Most people seem to play it as "Hey, Fred Schneider - what are you doing?")
Chris of Light Rail Pirates later purposely / purposefully combined it with the warmup game "What are you doing?" (a person does object work and is asked what they're doing, they reply with something they're not doing, the person who asked them starts doing what the other person said, etc.).
Fred Schneider spread like wildfire, though, for sure.
Here's a story on NPR about the Chicago's House Theater. At some point, the actors warm up by playing Fred Schneider.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=16380249