Improvisation

Character: Webshow Host
Location: Olivers Studio
Problem: You havent got a script for this week.

Ok annnnnnd GO!

http://www.handfulofminutes.com

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• improv
• improvisation
• Drew
• Carey
• Whose
• Line
• Is
• It
• Anyway
• Wayne
• Brady
• Winston
• Churchill
• Alexander
• Fleming
• penicillin
• comedy
• webshow

[owenhunt]

If I am to take this on the ace of it, I would assume this video was improvised, hence the topic matter.

You responded positively to a comment I gave you yesterday, so before dutifully engaging in a lecture about something in which I know very little, I wish to steady myself before I misfire...

Is this video 100% improvised, or did you have an outline for your routine as per usual? On the other hand, did you have cards you were reading from? I must know beore offering critique.

[HandfulOfMinutes]

Yup! I made it up entirely off the top of my head. After I made a point, I'd write it down on a piece of paper to help myself avoid total repetition...but that's it.

I wouldn't want to do it again, because I think that though I might get decent enough with practice...I don't want to alienate what viewers I have with three months of my staggering along towards quality improv episodes. Plus I can't really improvise all the facts and some of the graphic setups. Still, it was fun to do the once.

[shirt145]

Know who else was great at improvising? The ground crew of the Apollo 13 mission. HEY GUYS, LET'S MAKE AIR FILTERS OUT OF TUBE SOCKS AND SAVE EVERYBODY MKAY?

[HandfulOfMinutes]

Haha, goddamn - good point! Man, Astronauts...why don't we pay them like we pay music stars?

[vulcanbirdbrain]

HAH. wordy improve is for the pluots- unnaturally natural.

...pictoral improve ...a bit easier for the raisin-brained such as myself. lovely video

consider this an improved comment. aka-shite.

[HandfulOfMinutes]

It made me laugh, so it can't be that bad!

[owenhunt]

...With laughter. Your pointed comment about young men (or lads) having sex with purported "mums" is also hilariously delivered. It also has resonance with me, as I have always failed to be intrinsically offended with these sleaze gags.

I must commend you for being articulate enough to come up with the word "stimulae" on the spot, as not everyone can be so inherently articulate as this. I assume you avoid a fair share of the mind numbing media of mainstream America to achieve this? Well done.

[owenhunt]

If this was an honest to God improvisation, then I appaud you. You had composure throughout, as well as confidence that your noggin would produce a few funny lines eventually, even when faltering here and there.

You are engaging and at ease even when faltering, and this is good and indicates your obvious talent. My only gripe is that your delivery is given with sparkle, yet is not especially unique.

Your delivery of the "What about that?" on th W.Churcill matter had me breathing heavily...

[HandfulOfMinutes]

Did I say Troupe? I should have said "club", as in my High School's Improv club that I was a member of for three years. Good times...

I do have plans to keep fiddling with how I do the show. Partly this is because I want it to always improve, but also because we've sort of gotten the current form of the show "down" and don't want to risk getting bored or in a rut!

We film the next batch on Oct 3rd and the first of that batch will be up on the 11th. Let's see what shape those take...,

[HandfulOfMinutes]

Daaaaamn, good eye! My friend Tom turned me onto his stuff.