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Anther improv story from last week. Our improv class is SO funny and I almost never remember exactly what was so funny. Ok, one more fun scene:

Emotion switching. We were stuffing a pinata. I started with chavaunistic, he started with schitzophrenic (I don’t know how to spell either of those.) It is really hard to play a scene with a schizophrenic! He kept saying he was going to go over there, no he wasn’t, he was going to come back over here. He kept moving and talked in short, clipped sentences, He hated this! He loved it!

I stood proudly with my hands on my hips. I opened my mouth to speak several times, but he was still being schitzophrenic all over the place. When I got a chance to break in, I made a bold and loud pronouncement, “Only people with breasts stuff pinatas!”

I was still in my bold pose. I wasn’t sure what else to say. Ok, I’m a chauvinist. Am I a girl of a guy? What I just said didn’t make any sense did it?

Ok, it’s my turn: be manly, “Go stuff the pinata!”

Then a laugh burst out of my closed mouth and spit flew everywhere. I covered my mouth and tried to stop laughing. Then I thought, oh what the heck and went with it. I pretended to cry. Then I laughed, cried, laughed. Looked over my shoulder, “What did you say?” Then I looked down at myself and said with surprise, “Hey! I have breasts!”

He put his hands on his hips and said with disdain and arrogance, “Go stuff the pinata!”

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AYE ye scurvy pirates! I had a couple really fun scenes in improv last week.

An emotion switching game:

This time I started with masochistic and my partner started with ambitious.

Me: “Cinch up my dress, tighter, tighter! Ouch! MMM! Oh!! I can almost feel my ribs cracking!”

She: “With this dress and my skill as a coach, we are going to win the pageant for sure!” bending down to the floor. “Now which shoes do you want? The one inch heels, the three inch heels, or the 6 inch stilettos?”

Me: “The six inch stilettos!”

She: “They are going to really squeeze your toes, we don’t want this interfering with your ability to walk, we need to win!”

Me: “Squeeze me into those shoes! OH! That really hurts my toes! MM!”

She: Getting pricked by something as she puts on me shoes “Ouch! OH!!”

Me: starting to walk around her, hobbling in my painful shoes. “I’m going to WIN and I don’t care who I have to step on to get there!”

She: still on the ground, “Ouch! You stepped on my finger! … Do it again!”

It went on from there, us switching back and forth for awhile until finally we walked away into our glorious future of Miss America and beyond with me hobbling in my 6 inch painful heels.

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AYE ye scurvy pirates! I had a couple really fun scenes in improv tonigh

I also had an incredibly crappy scene where where the audience gives us a task, gives each of us an emotion and then we have to switch emotions back and forth while the scene is taking place. It went really badly and I’m still not sure if I can give any of the blame to my partner, but I don’t think so! I started with possessiveness, and all I kept doing was narrating my emotion. It was really bad. We were making pizza. “It’s MY pizza!” “That is MY dough!” It was so horrible.

His emotion was egotistical and we switched a couple times. “I am the best pizza maker!” I couldn’t think of anything else to say! Then he forgot which emotion to switch to and switched to “pushy.” He started ordering me around and I just looked at him really confused. I couldn’t remember where he’d started from so I didn’t know if I should say something egotistical or possessive. I have rarely had a scene fall so FLAT.

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