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Comment on Solo Improv by Russell Bennett

Russell Bennett — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:16:37 +0000

This past year, a fellow improv friend and I developed a two man show for the Renaissance Festival scene. This spring, well, this weekend actually, we were offered a stage at a Ren Fest, however my partner is performing in a musical currently. This has left me in the same situation, trying to develop games for a single man show! I will report back any successes… and failures. At this point I will be performing 3-4 shows per day, and I should have enough material that I will not do the same game twice in a day, except possibly in a late day encore performance.

Comment on The Flint and NZIF by John

John — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:34:45 +0000

Hey…. more improv insights, please!

Comment on The Flint and NZIF by StoryRobot

StoryRobot — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:44:02 +0000

Hmmm. I don’t know the answer to that. Let me look into it.

Comment on The Flint and NZIF by Todd Erler

Todd Erler — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:13:29 +0000

More of a question than a comment… Do you have a “follow” feature? I’d live to get updates via email.
Thanks!

Comment on Solo Improv by Billy Green

Billy Green — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:53:58 +0000

“Yes Dear” does sound awsome… With the “Gibberish Poet” routine, does the audience member generally have a pre-written poem, or do they just make it up on the spot?
…heheh…. “the old Kevin Nealon bit”…. classic.

-Billy Green, Laugh Entrepreneur

Comment on Intro to Improv: the build up pt2 by StoryRobot

StoryRobot — Mon, 23 May 2011 02:45:36 +0000

Hi Dan,
Glad you like the blog. You’re more than welcome to use the comics (so long as you link back here

Comment on Intro to Improv: the build up pt2 by Dan Richter

Dan Richter — Sun, 22 May 2011 21:27:48 +0000

Hi!
I’ve been blogging about improv for six years. Only now I came across your great blog.
For my latest posting I used one of your cartoons, referring to your blog. I hope that’s alright. If not, I’ll remove the cartoon immediately.
http://improgedanken.blogspot.com/2011/05/wenn-wir-blockieren.html
Dan

Comment on Born like an artist by Christine

Christine — Wed, 18 May 2011 03:07:15 +0000

That is the best comic ever. Thank you for sharing it!

Comment on Solo Improv by StoryRobot

StoryRobot — Tue, 17 May 2011 23:37:23 +0000

Thanks Jill!
I’m going to have to try “Yes Dear”.

Comment on Solo Improv by jill bernard

jill bernard — Mon, 16 May 2011 02:19:26 +0000

There are a lot of fun games you can play with the audience by yourself!

One game to play with the whole audience is “Yes Dear.” You get a relationship between two people, like Doctor/Patient. You assign the audience one of the roles. Their only line is “Yes, Doctor” or whatever would be appropriate given the role, “Yes Dear” or “Sir Yes Sir” whatever, depending on how they’ve been cast. Then you play the other part.

YOU: So, you’ve been experiencing some pain?
AUDIENCE: Yes, Doctor.
YOU: Have you been doing anything you shouldn’t be doing?
AUDIENCE: Yes, Doctor.
YOU: You have??? Have you been staying up all night?
AUDIENCE: Yes Doctor.
YOU: Have you been going to all night raves?

Whatever it is, you just get the audience’s character in trouble or yourself in trouble. It’s fun.

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You can do Gibberish Poet. You translate an audience volunteer’s poem line by line. There’s a three person version where you make another audience volunteer do an interpretive dance of each line.

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One Person Hesitation played off like the old Kevin Nealon bit. You’re giving a speech or something and you go “uhh uhh” they shout things, and you incorporate those suggestion.