Marvel Fan Waits 20 Minutes After Improv Show
San Francisco native Brian Cho waited patiently for 20 minutes after a local improv show just in case there was a post-credits scene, sources say.
By Jay Miller
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- San Francisco native Brian Cho waited patiently for 20 minutes after a local improv show just in case there was a post-credits scene, sources say.
“I wanted to be sure,” said Cho. “How dumb would I feel if I paid for a ticket, left right after the show ended and found out later that I missed a post-credits scene? I’d feel pretty dumb, especially considering I’d be missing out on content I technically paid for.”
After waiting for 20 minutes, Cho was the last remaining audience member in the Rodeo Improv Theater. It reportedly took staff several minutes to convince him there was nothing else to see.
“He refused to leave,” said Amanda Pelley, a performer at Rodeo. “I tried to explain that the show was over and that we just wanted to close up and head down the block for some drinks. He kept insisting there might be a teaser for next week’s show.”
Pelley went on to explain that the only way the theater staff could get rid of Cho was to get the team back on stage to perform a short teaser for the following week’s show.
“That seemed to satisfy him,” said Don Perkins, one of Pelley’s fellow improvisers. “Even if all we did was a one-minute scene with a couple callbacks to the show and a stupid little cliffhanger. Yeah, it was a weird night but at least it’s just this once.”
At press time, the team was horrified to see Cho sitting in the audience for their show the following week, awaiting yet another post-credits scene. These events have repeated weekly over the past two months and are expected to continue until the theater closes its doors for good.
Local Man Super Psyched for Improv Show Suggestion
A Chicago native, has not been to an improv show before but claims to have seen every episode of ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’ to date and something was missing.
By Jay Miller
CHICAGO, Ill. -- Comedy genius Michael Disher wrote ‘dildo,’ along with a number of other hilarious words on a list of suggestions he plans to shout at an improv show this weekend.
“It’s gonna be sick,” said Disher. “When they ask for a suggestion, I’m gonna yell ‘dildo’ as loud as I can from the back of the room. If they don’t use it for their scene, I’ll definitely interpret it as them not hearing me and yell it a little louder the next time.”
Disher, a Chicago native, has not been to an improv show before but claims to have seen every episode of ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’ to date. While he enjoyed the show, he always thought something was missing.
“Whose Line is great,” said Disher. “But I always felt like the audience suggestions could use a little drizzle of raunch. I mean, everyone knows sex is the funniest thing in the world, so there’s no reason it shouldn’t pop up more. Really, I’m performing a public service more than anything. Here, take a look at these.”
The list, as expected, was very funny. While ‘dildo’ was certainly the star of the list, suggestions such as ‘gynecologist’ and ‘stripper’ were other highlights the improvisers will surely be amused by and thankful to hear.
“It is, of course, a very funny word,” said Dr. Warren Lewis, a Chicago-based professor and comedy analyst. “Possibly the funniest there is. Just say it. ‘Dildo.’ See? The other suggestions Mr. Disher has prepared are marvelous in their own rights but this one is pure genius. The performers and other audience members are sure to be ecstatic.”
At press time, Disher had delivered his prepared suggestions to the raucous laughter and applause of his fellow audience members, who laughed more at the word ‘dildo’ than they did at the professional improvisers performing that night’s ‘Harold’ show.
Improv Troupe Fractured After Dispute
A local improv troupe was torn apart when its six members all insisted on different but equally stupid team names to use for their first performance, sources say.
By Jay Miller
LOS ANGELES, CA. -- A local improv troupe was torn apart when its six members all insisted on different but equally stupid team names to use for their first performance, sources say.
“I thought Shia LaBuff was a shoe-in,” said J.D. Starks, five-year performer in the Los Angeles improv scene. “I even photoshopped Shia LaBeouf as a buff guy. Just absolutely shredded, bulging muscles and all. I guess I was before my time; I’ll just hang on to that graphic until the time is right.”
Starks, a L.A. native, assembled the unnamed group with five other performers he met at various local improv auditions where they were all passed over in favor of more gifted yes, and-ers.
“Mine was Johnny Cochran Blocker,” said Amy Lundt, a local improviser specializing in the Harold format. “But no one else really got on board. Really? Are you telling me Lemonade Starship, Krispy Kramer and Dr. Peter Pepper are better than Johnny Cochran Blocker? As if.”
When we explained that none of the names really connected with us or made us want to see the show, a frustrated Lundt rolled her eyes and “wiped” the scene by standing from her seat and half-jogging out of the room.
“Our team name should’ve been the entirety of the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody,” said Tucker Brown, a recent Improv 101 graduate. “It would have been so funny for our name to have been just, you know, the whole song, but spoken without any music or anything.”
When asked where their name ideas came from, each of the six performers chuckled to themselves and muttered something about their idea being an inside joke from a scene they did a while back that was ‘hard to explain if you weren’t there.’