Colin Mochrie, Brad Sherwood, genitalia and mousetraps...
I bought the tickets right after I arrived in Georgia. Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood from Whose Line were going to be on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology (acronym: unfortunate). The premise of the show is, "We're not making this up....we're making this up as we go along, which is entirely different!" And they tour well together. They played a number of improv games. My favorite was like party quirks on crack: it was an interrogation where the audience came up with a crime that Colin had to confess to. In this case, it was that while wearing a thong, a tutu and Mardi Gras beads, Colin had gone cow tipping and given a dog liposuction at the "Speedy Like a Bunny" Cupcake Inflating Company and Rabbit Courier Service in Sopchoppy where he had left behind his chainsaw. It took a while for him to get there, and I really think that Brad was using coercive interrogation techniques. The other game that was really funny was their closer, "the most dangerous improv game," they called it. They put down 100 mousetraps, took off their shoes, put on blindfolds and sang an opera (with lines that started with sequential letters of the alphabet) about putting up a Halloween house, all while snapping the shit out of their toes. New forms of punctuation were invented during that skit.
They were immense fun.
HJ
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2 comments:
The Whose Line crew are really talented and put on a great show; they've done a lot to popularize improv.
I've only played the Mousetrap Game once and it was tons of fun. There's only one way to do it - just play a scene that gets you moving and keep putting yourself at risk.
You can say or do anything and the audience could care less - they're totally focused on the mousetraps. Like a lot of game-based improv, there's not much chance of actual theater breaking out, but if done right it's at least as much fun to play as it is to watch.
What was the context of your playing improv?
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