“The most important thing an improviser can be is boring”
- Gethard
I don’t want to quote him out of context, so let me provide some background.
Drespel for life. Honored to be mentioned in the same post as a bunch of people I admire.
Coming from an improvisor I admire greatly, this post is a huge compliment. So very flattered.
Best Improv Scene
Reblog and describe the best improv scene you ever saw.
It’s super hard to speak to what the “best” scene was or even my favorite, but a scene I find very important was done in a Stepfathers set in 2007 where the game was simply “Big Food.”
One of my favorite scene ever occurred at Couple’s Skate (please bring back this show!) in October. Neil Casey was asking for Connor Ratliff’s ex-wife’s hand in marriage. The scene was so patient with such a brilliant slow burn. At one point, Connor referred to his ex-wife as his mother. When Neil called him out on this, Connor pauses, thinks about it, and comes back with “There’s a discovery.” It was one of the most beautiful scenes ever.
The first scene I ever saw that blew me away was the Stepfathers in January of 2011. It was the second half of their set. They did a monoscene at a church lock-in. Silvija was the chaperone. Zach was the over-excited, weird kid. Chris, the misunderstood rebel. Shannon, the slutty bad girl. Will, the depressed kid whose father was busted for insider training. Delaney, the devout practitioner. I had never seen a monoscene before. I was blown away. It was a monoscene where no one could leave because the doors were locked. They all shared focus and had interesting characters without forcing it by leaving. I talked to Silvija (my 101 teacher at the time) and told her how blown away I was by ONE SCENE for 25 minutes. She smiled. Awesome.
My headshot for Harold Auditions!
“I’m not ashamed to wear a woman’s nightgown because it’s not shameful to be a sleepy woman.” - Mitchell Stephen Fesh
Saturday night at Player’s Theater. Tesla’s birthday show featuring The Heathers and FISH TRAIN! Be there!
What am I doing at 8:00 on a Saturday night?? - Oh, just looking at the website for an improv team that broke up 6 years ago.
What am I doing on Tumblr right now??- Oh just posting something that reaffirms my pitiful life.
I do wish I could have seen this team, though.
Howard Cosell once referred to a black wide-receiver as “a little monkey.” He meant nothing by it considering that’s what he called his grandson. I doubt whoever wrote this has an equal or even legitimate excuse.
People that had jobs at ESPN today, won’t have jobs tomorrow. Or so I hope.
This is both disgusting and disturbing. No real words can describe how low of a person it takes to write that headline.
via @mdotbrown
EDIT: Everyone contact ESPN and demand that whoever wrote this and every single person that laid eyes on it and said nothing about it be reprimanded.
That’s just awful.
My perhaps naive reaction is that it is a genuine mistake, and maybe an optimistic sign that someone writing headlines wouldn’t have realized it because they don’t have the word “chink” as a perjorative in their head. So maybe that word, as a racial slur, is vanishing — and this is just a humorous and ironic piece of evidence of how it’s going away. An ignorant wordsmith, but not an insensitive person.
I think I’m a good candidate for this.
I want to be on a team called “Mercury” and I want everyone on the team to do this pose. Like, yesterday.
Mainly pitchers and catchers
Tonight, I had the fortune of the playing with two separate, yet equally great, teams. With that, I realized that I love playing with different people.
Shame on those people who stay so close with a few people within the community or refuse to go to jams because of the variable participants. I have gone to jams, Kaleidoscopes, team shows, and class shows and wouldn’t trade the experience of playing with nearly a hundred different people for anything.
We improv nerds are the ones who are socially awkward. We interact on stage because it is an acceptable arena in which we can reveal ourselves no matter how crazy the way in which we deliver it is. Why do we want to limit that to a few people?
Let’s make a choice to play with people we don’t know. Or want to know. Or know but have never played with before. It makes everyone better in the end.
THIS MOVIE WAS AMAZING!!! Classic dark DeVito comedy parodying Hitchcock. Such an enjoyable movie. I hope Apruzzese liked it and wasn’t being a dick.
In case you forgot, this movie exists.
