Another Successful Night!

Tonight was yet another successful night of improv.

The night started out with the classic warm-up games. Tonight's highlight was a intense game of Angry Samurai. It is primarily a focus game were one person has to pass an energy to another person (and on and on). There is a catch, though. The people along side of you decide when you send the energy, and until that point, you have to yell Japanese  gibberish as loud as you can (Sushi, Kimono, Godzilla, Jackie Chan, We all look the same, etc).

After a good warm up, we moved on to focus on space. One rule of improv is to respect others choices (example: If a character is named 'Fred,' you can't change it to 'Ron' or 'Paul' or 'Chesterfield Steak Knife McFistycuffs). Another rule is learning to  respect the idea of space and objects within that space. So we played around with "imaginary" rooms, from a classic bedroom to a whole secret chamber,  devoted to *censored*  and filled with *censored* .

Learning to respect space is one of the key concepts. If you don't respect the space you are given or has been established, then neither will the audience. Then all your attempts at humor go right on down the drain, because they now only see people being stupid, not a funny scene occurring in a gay Greek butcher shop.

With that point out of the way, the rest of night was devoted to more improv games, from comparing fish sizes to questionable art to the aforementioned gay Greek butcher. All in all, a good night.

Quote of the Night: Channing Tatum has big, sexy ears. (Devin Woodall)