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Show Notes
Katrina and Jen talk about improv, including improv articles they found on the internet and facts you can add to your scenes. Discover soup and what the word of the day is. And we get a visit from an improviser living in Germany, Luke Bovard! OUR FIRST GUEST! And see what Will Hines photo will end up on the studio wall. You know, important stuff like that.
Show notes (including links), transcript available below. Contact available at: http://ween.is (come be our guest!). Also available as a podcast.
Guest: Luke Bovard
Word of the Week: Musard
Soup: Potato Carrot Soup
Plugs:
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Credits
Starring:
Katrina Charles as Katrina Charles
Jen deHaan as Jen deHaan
TJ as TJ’s Movie Minute
Luke Bovard as Guest!
Music & Sound FX: Katrina Charles
Set/Video Design & OBS Button Pusher: Jen deHaan
Production: Jen deHaan / FlatImprov.com
Podcast production: FlatImprov.com Podcasts
Theme song:
Title: WNIS (Weenis) Theme
Written by: Katrina Charles
Performed by: Katrina Charles and the Katrina Charles choir
Executive Producer: Will Hines’ photo
End Credits: Music by Patrick Richmond from Pixabay
Special thanks to: World’s Greatest Improv School (WGIS) (weegis)
Socials & Livestream
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Podcast:
Transcript
Note: You can also click the youtube video above to access YouTube’s transcript on their site.
Speaker A – [00:00 – 01:19]
Life’s too normal. And you need a change from something totally expected to something strange. It’s time to go to a place where dreams come true. And all we need is you. It’s the world’s nerdiest
Speaker A – [01:19 – 01:34]
improv show. That you and I and sweetness don’t you know? Get your internet connected and your screen aglow. And we’ll make it up as we go. The world’s nerdiest improv show.
Speaker B – [01:34 – 01:39]
Welcome, everyone. To the world’s nerdiest
Speaker B – [01:39 – 01:45]
improv show. Parentheses. When is parentheses? Weenies?
Speaker C – [01:45 – 01:49]
And we are your host. I am Catrina, and I’m Jenn.
Speaker B – [01:49 – 01:59]
Oh, I’ve got some things here. Oh, my goodness, I’m so slow. There’s Katrina’s name. There’s my name. Yeah. You know, it’s all about the
Speaker B – [01:59 – 02:07]
production value. You’re valuing up my production. There we go. We got the value in. How are you doing, Katrina? Oh, I’m pretty good.
Speaker C – [02:07 – 02:07]
Jen, how are you?
Speaker B – [02:07 – 02:11]
I’m doing okay. Yeah. How was your week? Oh.
Speaker C – [02:11 – 02:16]
Pretty good. Uh. I don’t remember what happened, but it’s been good.
Speaker B – [02:16 – 02:18]
You got a good view?
Speaker C – [02:18 – 02:19]
I did get a good view
Speaker C – [02:19 – 02:39]
Right. Well, well. I so they they did. Uh, if you remember from last week, I was talking about how they they cut down the tree from next to my apartment. Yeah. Um, they did, and it opened up the view of a lake, which was very nice and very fancy. And I feel like I can’t afford to live here after my lease
Speaker C – [02:39 – 02:42]
expired. Uh, but I still miss the birds.
Speaker B – [02:42 – 02:48]
Yeah, there is something about seeing some wildlife outside of your window. Yeah?
Speaker C – [02:48 – 02:59]
Yeah, like there were cool birds, like, uh, Steller’s jay would come, like, a little a blue jay with, like, a cool mohawk. They would come and visit and, uh, I would often see, uh, woodpeckers like a, um, northern flicker
Speaker C – [02:59 – 03:06]
which have little, like, polka dots on them, which are very cute and lovely, and they have cute little red cheeks. Oh my goodness, they have a cute little red cheeks.
Speaker B – [03:06 – 03:10]
Yeah, I have red cheeks, but they’re not so cute.
Speaker C – [03:10 – 03:11]
Oh, I wouldn’t say that.
Speaker D – [03:11 – 03:15]
Oh my goodness gracious. Look at the love.
Speaker B – [03:15 – 03:19]
The love can’t oh my gosh there’s there they go
Speaker B – [03:19 – 03:32]
Oh there they are. Sisters. You can’t see that I’m blushing. Oh oh. Anyway, anyways, when you’re an improv nerd you got to take the compliments when you can get them.
Speaker C – [03:32 – 03:39]
Take them all. Yeah. Take them. And also learning how to take a compliment I feel is like a really good skill to have. Yeah, there’s a lot
Speaker C – [03:39 – 03:59]
there’s a lot of times in my life when people would give me a compliment and I’d be like, no. And then it’s just like an awkward situation because they’re like, okay, I don’t know how to talk to you. Yeah. Um, so if you’re just if you just learn how to, like, automatically say, oh, thank you so much, it makes conversations go a lot easier, even if internally you’re like, liar. Yeah, I’m
Speaker C – [03:59 – 04:02]
internally liar or embarrassed.
Speaker B – [04:02 – 04:03]
Um, yeah.
Speaker C – [04:03 – 04:11]
I don’t usually think liar. I usually think I don’t know what to do with this information. I don’t know what to feel about this. Yeah.
Speaker B – [04:11 – 04:19]
That’s exactly. Yeah, I was even I was told that in improv once. Oh, Jen can’t
Speaker B – [04:19 – 04:25]
take a can’t, can’t take a good note because I get embarrassed. I’m like, oh no, I have something. Wait. Oh no.
Speaker C – [04:25 – 04:27]
It’s so much easier when you do something wrong.
Speaker B – [04:27 – 04:33]
Yeah, I know, I’m like, I don’t know what to do with it. Usually fucking up exactly.
Speaker C – [04:33 – 04:38]
Like, oh, amazing. I can work with this if I have something wrong. But if it’s something good, like, oh no
Speaker C – [04:38 – 04:42]
what if it goes away? Yeah, if I lose it, what if I do it wrong next time?
Speaker B – [04:42 – 04:57]
Exactly. That’s probably what it is. You get in your head like, oh, that was a fluke or something that I did that, and can I ever repeat that thing again? And now everyone’s going to be looking for me to not do that thing.
Speaker C – [04:57 – 04:58]
Yeah, I don’t want to be known for getting
Speaker C – [04:58 – 05:07]
things right, because then people expect you to get things right. And as soon as you do something wrong, it’s like doubly as bad as if you did something wrong when no one expected you to do it right in the first place.
Speaker B – [05:07 – 05:14]
We are putting so many improvisers in their head right now. I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.
Speaker C – [05:14 – 05:18]
Let’s see. This is us doing it wrong so you don’t expect us to get it right. So
Speaker C – [05:18 – 05:23]
next time when we get it wrong, you’re going to be like, oh, they just get it wrong often. Yeah.
Speaker B – [05:23 – 05:27]
Basically when you do your improv nerd show, don’t do what we’re doing.
Speaker C – [05:27 – 05:32]
Don’t you could do it better, but then we’d expect you to do it better.
Speaker B – [05:32 – 05:33]
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C – [05:33 – 05:38]
Don’t set your bar so high when you deal with the pressure. Yeah
Speaker C – [05:38 – 05:39]
yeah.
Speaker B – [05:39 – 05:58]
But anyway, I wonder, though, like, we’ve we’ve apparently self-proclaimed the world’s nerdiest improv show. Like we are setting us ourselves up as number one. Nerdiest? Yeah. If someone else is doing an improv nerd show, are they, like, the nerdiest plus? Plus
Speaker B – [05:58 – 06:03]
the world’s nerdiest, even nerdiest or.
Speaker C – [06:03 – 06:18]
Well, I could, uh, I could argue that if someone was more nerdier than us, they could write to us as, um, claiming false advertising, and then they could technically, technically take our name, and then we’d have to be like the world’s nerdy improv
Speaker C – [06:18 – 06:19]
show.
Speaker B – [06:19 – 06:22]
A second nerdiest improv show.
Speaker C – [06:22 – 06:38]
True. But then we’re we’re up again against everyone, and and anyone could come in at any time and claim that they’re the second nerdiest. So then we have to it’s like, yeah, we could do a generic, like a nerdy improv show, a nerdy improv show that’s smarter
Speaker C – [06:38 – 06:41]
it’s smarter, but it’s also not as definitive.
Speaker B – [06:41 – 06:50]
So it isn’t. However, it means that I don’t have to register more domains. That’s true. Yeah, I have a lot of domains already.
Speaker C – [06:50 – 06:58]
Yeah, a nerdy improv show would probably be the most money saving option. So you heard it here first.
Speaker B – [06:58 – 06:58]
Yeah
Speaker B – [06:58 – 07:18]
Business ideas for all of you. All right. Well. Oh, well, speaking of our show, this show is brought to us by soup. Buy soup. So, uh. Oh, boy. Oh, we just got, uh, the people watching us just got a preview of the word
Speaker B – [07:18 – 07:23]
of the week. Oh, no. Uh, but here’s the soup of the week.
Speaker C – [07:23 – 07:24]
What kind of soup is that?
Speaker B – [07:24 – 07:27]
This one’s potato. Carrot soup. Oh.
Speaker C – [07:27 – 07:38]
That’s interesting. Yeah, it looks very good. You know, I, I wanted to make your soup last week, which was a curry vegetable soup. Um, but it’s very difficult to find garam masala
Speaker C – [07:38 – 07:48]
Really? Huh? Yeah. I don’t know why I need to go to, like, a specialty store because, like, no places of my normal grocery place has it, right?
Speaker B – [07:48 – 07:53]
Huh? I would have thought that would be a more, more commonly acquired one, you would think.
Speaker C – [07:53 – 07:55]
But maybe I don’t know.
Speaker B – [07:55 – 07:57]
Yeah, I haven’t shop for it for a while
Speaker B – [07:57 – 08:01]
because I have, like a great big yeah bag.
Speaker C – [08:01 – 08:10]
That’s the thing. I’m like, I need to go to the specialty store because they do sell it in. Just like the big things that’ll be set for life. Yeah. My life, I mean, for months.
Speaker B – [08:10 – 08:12]
For months. Oh, that’s a lot of soup.
Speaker C – [08:12 – 08:17]
Yeah. Not to say I’m going to not not live past four months. Just. I
Speaker C – [08:17 – 08:26]
was exaggerating. How? Yeah, you get it. This soup is good too, though. Yeah. Wow. The banter is so good today.
Speaker B – [08:26 – 08:36]
Oh, we’re we’re doing we’re doing well. We are doing well, everyone. Um, we actually have a guest today.
Speaker C – [08:36 – 08:37]
We do
Speaker C – [08:37 – 08:40]
Oh, shoot, I missed I missed my line change.
Speaker B – [08:40 – 08:44]
Oh. I’m sorry, would you like to redo? We can rewind. Yes.
Speaker C – [08:44 – 08:46]
Can we just rewind and do the first little bit again?
Speaker B – [08:46 – 08:49]
Okay, I’ll put this back. There we go.
Speaker C – [08:49 – 08:52]
All right. Garam masala again. Failure.
Speaker B – [08:52 – 08:57]
Failure. Yep. Well, and then begin on the failure
Speaker B – [08:57 – 09:02]
note. All right, let’s redo. Where are we at? I’m confused.
Speaker C – [09:02 – 09:02]
The top.
Speaker B – [09:02 – 09:11]
We’re at the top. So world’s nerdiest improv show. We are the nerdiest. Currently, we may not remain the nerdiest.
Speaker C – [09:11 – 09:13]
And we are your hosts.
Speaker B – [09:13 – 09:17]
I’m Karina, and I’m Jen. Oh, here we go
Speaker B – [09:17 – 09:22]
again. Jen. Title. Katrina. Title. There we go. Okay, that right back to that part. Got it.
Speaker C – [09:22 – 09:25]
And uh, today we have a guest.
Speaker B – [09:25 – 09:30]
We do have a guest. I’m so excited about our guest I am too.
Speaker C – [09:30 – 09:33]
It was we had a lovely discussion. Um. Mhm.
Speaker B – [09:33 – 09:36]
Oh we should fast forward right now. We should just fast
Speaker B – [09:36 – 09:45]
forward. Let’s fast forward. We’ve done. Batter batter batter batter batter failure domains are. I’m so excited. We have a guest today Katrina.
Speaker C – [09:45 – 09:53]
Oh me too Jen I, I think, uh, you know, we’ve been building up to this point to figure out how we could get guests on the show. And today’s the big day.
Speaker B – [09:53 – 09:56]
Uh, big day indeed. Uh, we have a improviser
Speaker B – [09:56 – 10:16]
from the world’s greatest improv and other places. He improvises at several places. But the place where I met, uh, this, uh, our guest is through the world’s greatest improv school, which is. Where we are, where we are streaming from
Speaker B – [10:16 – 10:34]
Yes, we just is, uh, Twitch channel. Um. All right, well, should we should we roll the interview now that we, uh, we messed up. We were round, we fixed our mistakes, and now we can run the interview with. With Luke Luke Boulevard. Boulevard. All right. Yeah. All right. Let’s.
Speaker C – [10:34 – 10:35]
I didn’t want to say it wrong
Speaker B – [10:35 – 10:41]
Yeah. All right, let’s let’s roll the interview.
Speaker C – [10:41 – 10:53]
Press the button to witness his very first interview. Um, we are lucky today to have Luke Boulevard all the way in from Germany. Yeah. He, uh.
Speaker E – [10:53 – 10:54]
First one.
Speaker C – [10:54 – 10:55]
Yeah. First.
Speaker C – [10:55 – 11:15]
First interview for, uh, international. Uh, putting us on the map. All of all of the things. So thank you so much for being here, Luke. Um, we’re happy to talk about a little bit of your improv background and just your improv experience, and you have lots of unique experiences that, uh, we can chat about. So, uh, yeah. Would you like to just start with a little bit about
Speaker C – [11:15 – 11:15]
yourself?
Speaker E – [11:15 – 11:23]
Yeah. Great. Well, I first want to say those ads that you just played were I don’t fully but by by whatever they were selling, I mean.
Speaker B – [11:23 – 11:31]
Oh, thank you so much. Yeah. We’re hoping to, you know, increase the sales element of this show.
Speaker E – [11:31 – 11:35]
Oh, fantastic. Yeah. You got a wide reach. Yeah. Uh oh. Thanks. I
Speaker E – [11:35 – 11:43]
did not know I was the first guest. So it’s an honor. An absolute honor to take the mantle. And again, I’m going to set the bar high.
Speaker B – [11:43 – 11:47]
Oh, yes, we are we we we we set it right at the top.
Speaker E – [11:47 – 11:54]
Mhm. Yeah. No, I have a bit of improv. Uh I’ve been doing it now two years,
Speaker E – [11:54 – 12:13]
two years. But I have been an improv fan for a long time, in fact, since uh, since we’re just thinking of it, I have and this is, I posted on Instagram one point, a certificate of excellence in podcast support signed by Scott Ackerman himself
Speaker E – [12:13 – 12:33]
from 2012. We have, um, Jessica Saint Clair as Marissa Wompler. Uh, Jared. Jared Carmichael, I think is his name. He’s gotten very big. And, uh, Paul Rust here. Paul Rust if if you’re a CBB fan. Uh, it was the first new no nos episode I sponsored, so I
Speaker E – [12:33 – 12:39]
know I have. I’ve been listening to improv podcasts for a long time. Wow, that is history right there.
Speaker C – [12:39 – 12:43]
I would history I would have that framed at some point.
Speaker E – [12:43 – 12:53]
I am actually going to get it framed. Oh, amazing. I just moved into a new place. Yes, that’s fair, but yeah, I’ve been been a big improv fan for a long time growing up watching Whose Line way back in the day
Speaker E – [12:53 – 13:01]
Mhm. I was, uh, back when torrenting was still cool and much more, you know, sail on the high seas.
Speaker B – [13:01 – 13:04]
It’s quite it’s not cool anymore. Oh shit. Yeah.
Speaker E – [13:04 – 13:13]
Write that down. Right. Yeah I know it’s all streaming now. It’s all streaming. Yeah, yeah. Uh, but yeah I was watching Whose Line way, way back in the day and
Speaker E – [13:13 – 13:29]
yeah, just big fan of improv podcasts. And then after Covid the lockdowns were, were easing up. I was like, oh, you know what? I should really do? This can’t be that hard. And I’ve been doing it since here in, in Berlin, in Germany, in English.
Speaker B – [13:29 – 13:33]
How do you feel now? Uh, on. That can’t be that hard. What was your reaction
Speaker B – [13:33 – 13:35]
after you started out?
Speaker E – [13:35 – 13:53]
Uh, I was actually because I, I did a lot of dancing and I did a lot of improvisation and dance and being in front of people and doing silly things. I found it quite, quite enjoyable and used to being in front of just being on stage, being in front of people, doing silly stuff. I had some quite a bit of experience
Speaker E – [13:53 – 14:10]
at least from the dance world, and the skills were just lift, lift and shift like directly applicable. Yeah, just get used to like going in the moment and having fun and and whatnot. Yeah, I still long way to go, but I enjoy it quite a bit. It’s very, very fun.
Speaker C – [14:10 – 14:13]
Oh that’s awesome. Um, what kind of dance do you do
Speaker C – [14:13 – 14:15]
apart from improvised?
Speaker F – [14:15 – 14:16]
Yeah.
Speaker E – [14:16 – 14:32]
So I originally started with swing dancing, so. Oh, wow. Very fun. Yeah. So that’s all. It’s a social dance improvisation. Complete improv. I mean, there are choreograph routines, so that’s, you know, going up to people and ask them, hey, do you want to dance, do a song, have fun, be silly, be wacky
Speaker E – [14:32 – 14:53]
Uh, then during the lockdowns, I got into house dancing, uh, also into a dance called whacking, which is a very cool dance. It’s with your arms. It’s like Vogue, but not Vogue. Yeah. Oh, that’s a bit locking. Yeah, yeah. If Vogue
Speaker E – [14:53 – 15:13]
voguing was, uh, East Coast, New York City, black, uh, trans communities, gay communities in New York, whacking was originally punking Los Angeles, the gay, black, Latino communities there. But unfortunately, it didn’t survive or it didn’t get as well known as as voguing has
Speaker E – [15:13 – 15:33]
So that’s quite fun. And there it’s a lot of improvisation. You’re, um, literally, you know, posing with that like you’re in a magazine. So a lot of improvisation there. It’s all about just being in the moment. No choreography, expressing yourself, being, you know, you can play characters as well. Um, people play characters
Speaker E – [15:33 – 15:40]
in dance, but otherwise, yeah, it’s just it’s a social dance meant to have fun and express yourself. Put yourself out there.
Speaker F – [15:40 – 15:41]
Oh my gosh, that’s so good.
Speaker E – [15:41 – 15:53]
A good lesson I’ve learned from a couple of very famous dancers. And I think it’s very true in improv. I’ve taken it a look at improv as well. Uh, if you’re having fun
Speaker E – [15:53 – 16:12]
and being yourself on stage, everyone notices. And if you’re not, everyone notices. And I’ve seen with improv, if someone clearly doesn’t want to be there, it just like that. Like you notice it immediately. Definitely. Yeah. They’re having fun. You’re like doing scenes, whatever. It’s like, oh, these if the if you’re having
Speaker E – [16:12 – 16:15]
fun and everyone can see it, the audience is having fun as well.
Speaker F – [16:15 – 16:16]
Yeah.
Speaker B – [16:16 – 16:21]
We think we’re so good at acting, but people can see through that part of it.
Speaker F – [16:21 – 16:25]
Exactly. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker C – [16:25 – 16:30]
So did you start out your classes at Regis in LA or elsewhere?
Speaker F – [16:30 – 16:31]
Uh, no.
Speaker E – [16:31 – 16:32]
I started here in Berlin. I
Speaker E – [16:32 – 16:37]
actually started with, uh, short form improv. So again, in the Whose Line style.
Speaker F – [16:37 – 16:38]
Yeah.
Speaker E – [16:38 – 16:52]
And I found it’s a great foundation of just basically getting to the game as quick as possible, being silly, being stupid. A lot of times the game is just given to you, uh, and whatnot, but then moved to, to more long form since that’s what I’m a little bit
Speaker E – [16:52 – 16:59]
more interested in, but I enjoy both. But yeah, mostly been done in person a little bit here. We just nice.
Speaker C – [16:59 – 17:03]
Do you have a favorite short form game or a least favorite short form game?
Speaker E – [17:03 – 17:12]
Oh, favorite short form game? Oh my god what’s I love? New choices. Always my favorite short form new choices
Speaker F – [17:12 – 17:13]
Yeah.
Speaker E – [17:13 – 17:29]
It’s such a great a great fun thing because you always you know, the third thing is always going to be the weirdest and then therefore the funniest. And you’re really struggling to establish that pattern. You’re like, okay, I got the first beat, second beat, third. Oh God. What’s the third thing? Oh no, I can’t you say something. And it’s very funny.
Speaker F – [17:29 – 17:31]
Yeah, I feel like that was
Speaker F – [17:31 – 17:33]
like a mental exercise.
Speaker C – [17:33 – 17:38]
Like really? Yeah. It forces you to build that muscle of, like, just grabbing whatever’s there.
Speaker F – [17:38 – 17:40]
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker E – [17:40 – 17:47]
Uh, probably least favorite is any sort of musical improv or rapping. Yeah.
Speaker F – [17:47 – 17:47]
Oh.
Speaker E – [17:47 – 17:51]
Rapping that one. Yeah. I’m like I’m that’s not my not my specialty
Speaker E – [17:51 – 17:53]
Yeah I don’t enjoy that at all.
Speaker B – [17:53 – 18:03]
Yeah I wish I was good at rapping. That’s one of those ones that I wish I was super good at. But yeah I stress it at attempting to rhymes.
Speaker C – [18:03 – 18:06]
Yeah, that’s that’s one I would like to improve at.
Speaker E – [18:06 – 18:11]
Yeah. Yeah. But I don’t do much short form anymore. More long form. So
Speaker E – [18:11 – 18:12]
yeah.
Speaker B – [18:12 – 18:20]
What kind of long form do you enjoy. Do you have like a form in particular or a style or an opening that you prefer?
Speaker E – [18:20 – 18:30]
Yeah, I like probably what I’m really interested in and I hopefully will get to do more. Is the movie
Speaker E – [18:30 – 18:47]
did the class with Billy Merritt here at Regis, which was a lot of fun. Yeah, and I really liked that because it’s you get to play with the genre and you just get to have fun and be silly and be just stupid as characters. Yeah, and it’s just so, so enjoyable.
Speaker B – [18:47 – 18:51]
Are you into movies like do you watch a lot of movies? Are
Speaker B – [18:51 – 18:56]
you into, you know, genre and dissecting the movie and all that kind of thing as well?
Speaker E – [18:56 – 19:02]
Uh, not really. I just like I just like playing with the tropes. So it’s listening, I apologize.
Speaker F – [19:02 – 19:04]
Yeah.
Speaker B – [19:04 – 19:06]
Oh, TJ might be listening.
Speaker F – [19:06 – 19:08]
Oh, no. I’m sorry.
Speaker B – [19:08 – 19:11]
I’ll have your back. I’m not a big movie watcher
Speaker B – [19:11 – 19:13]
either. I struggle, but I do enjoy the form.
Speaker F – [19:13 – 19:15]
I have a lot of fun.
Speaker C – [19:15 – 19:25]
Yeah, I have a full list of movies from TJ that I need to watch, and I’m about this much through it. So, yeah, we’re we’re all about, uh.
Speaker E – [19:25 – 19:30]
Yeah. No, it’s a lot of fun. I have actually one of the people of the in-person
Speaker E – [19:30 – 19:50]
class. I did a version of the movie here, too. He had studied at UCB in the 2000, and he was telling me about all the cool teachers he had and he actually Dynamo, if you remember, if you know that name, Jen, you might I don’t know, Katrina. You, uh, don’t know if you know Dynamo. Actually, just to sidebar
Speaker E – [19:50 – 20:08]
uh, this is my second appearance on the show I’ve been on. Yes, you were on once before. Yeah, I got a shout out, um, and to a, uh, photo of Will Hines. And from that series, Dynamo is one of the characters. She’s in a couple episodes of that.
Speaker F – [20:08 – 20:09]
Yeah.
Speaker B – [20:09 – 20:10]
And I think maybe
Speaker B – [20:10 – 20:15]
a writer or some other writer producer something as well. Yeah, if I remember correctly.
Speaker E – [20:15 – 20:28]
But I might not be if you don’t know Dynamo, she’s also made those very famous, um, uh, uh, diagrams or posters of the different forms, like the Herald. If you’ve seen one from UCB, that’s that’s her.
Speaker F – [20:28 – 20:29]
Okay. I have seen those who
Speaker F – [20:29 – 20:30]
made that.
Speaker E – [20:30 – 20:43]
Yeah. So she actually, uh, the the guy in the class, he contacted her, got a list of all the different genres. And, you know, here are all the prototypes of every film. It’s a very good, thorough list. Wow. That’s ten years ago.
Speaker B – [20:43 – 20:48]
Yeah, yeah, I, I need resources like that for sure.
Speaker F – [20:48 – 20:50]
I can I like the visual
Speaker C – [20:50 – 20:52]
Visual aids are very helpful.
Speaker F – [20:52 – 20:53]
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker E – [20:53 – 21:02]
Cool. I also like, uh, a montage, classic montage. Nothing beats it when you do it. Well, it’s always fun.
Speaker F – [21:02 – 21:03]
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker C – [21:03 – 21:05]
Very fun. I love a montage.
Speaker F – [21:05 – 21:10]
Do you, do you, do you prefer, like, an organic
Speaker F – [21:10 – 21:16]
opening or do you prefer, like a structured opening on on a montage or anything really?
Speaker E – [21:16 – 21:30]
Um, I think I’ve become a fan now of just getting a suggestion, and I guess, I guess it’s called a living room style opening or a monologue style opening. I don’t know, the terminology is not clear, but you get a suggestion and then everyone just kind of talks
Speaker E – [21:30 – 21:50]
for 2 or 3 minutes about what does it remind them of. You get a couple stories and you go, uh, I find it to be the best when done well, because, yeah, a couple stories gets the audience laughing. They’re not trying to dissect like, I hate the pattern game, I think. Yeah, yeah. Me too. It doesn’t make sense as a as an audience
Speaker E – [21:50 – 21:59]
member like this. Is this fun to watch? Like, is it just people saying random words and then a little premise. Oh yeah.
Speaker B – [21:59 – 22:10]
Yeah, I’m with you on that. I’m with you on both of those. The living room done well is spectacular, especially, and it’s amazing how much technique can go into a living room, which seems informal. It seems like you’re just
Speaker B – [22:10 – 22:16]
chatting, but there is a lot of technique to do it very well, which is, uh, makes a difference.
Speaker E – [22:16 – 22:30]
Yeah. If you watch Holy shit! Improv. They, they do a living room style one and it’s amazing. They can pull every single story, gets turned into a scene in some way, and then just kind of goes in different direction. You’re like
Speaker E – [22:30 – 22:35]
really? The fact that there was a poster on the wall became a good three minute bit. You’re like, don’t do that.
Speaker F – [22:35 – 22:45]
Oh, but how did you make soup so interesting? I have no idea exactly how did that happen.
Speaker E – [22:45 – 22:49]
And it’s just fun. And I mean, I take improv as it’s supposed to be. It’s supposed to be silly
Speaker E – [22:49 – 22:51]
It’s adult playtime.
Speaker F – [22:51 – 22:51]
Exactly.
Speaker E – [22:51 – 22:59]
If I see, uh, I like, what is it called? Oh, my God, the, um, incantation. Isn’t that what it’s called? The.
Speaker B – [22:59 – 23:00]
Oh, invocation.
Speaker F – [23:00 – 23:00]
Invocation.
Speaker E – [23:00 – 23:02]
Thank you. Invocation. Yes.
Speaker F – [23:02 – 23:02]
Yeah.
Speaker E – [23:02 – 23:07]
Which I’ve never I’ve seen one good one in my entire life.
Speaker F – [23:07 – 23:08]
Yeah.
Speaker E – [23:08 – 23:09]
Otherwise it’s just awkward
Speaker E – [23:09 – 23:11]
to watch and not that funny.
Speaker F – [23:11 – 23:12]
Yeah. So.
Speaker E – [23:12 – 23:17]
But it’s become more about. Sorry. Go ahead.
Speaker C – [23:17 – 23:20]
Katrina, which one’s the invocation? I don’t think I do that one.
Speaker E – [23:20 – 23:29]
It’s where you get a suggestion. You have to embody it on stage. It’s kind of a very performance. Arty in my view. Oh, okay
Speaker F – [23:29 – 23:42]
Yeah, I don’t know, but I kind of. I think I know what you mean. If you remember, the thou art the peanut of my existence, sitting there all nutty like. Yes.
Speaker B – [23:42 – 23:44]
Have you ever seen something like that?
Speaker C – [23:44 – 23:49]
Um, probably. Did I promptly
Speaker B – [23:49 – 24:07]
forget it? Yeah. If you Google the perfect herald, there’s a video from the improvisers in Chicago. Uh, I forget the the name of the team, but there’s a couple of well-known people on it. It’s from, like, 2009, 2010. They do. Uh, invocation. Okay. That’s like the only good one I’ve seen because everyone
Speaker E – [24:07 – 24:09]
commits 100%. Oh, cool.
Speaker F – [24:09 – 24:09]
Yeah.
Speaker C – [24:09 – 24:10]
Okay, I’ll look it up.
Speaker F – [24:10 – 24:12]
Yeah. I want to see about committing.
Speaker B – [24:12 – 24:22]
Yeah. And I’ve heard about one where the invocation turned into the like the invocation was 20 minutes and then they did the Herald and two or something like that at the end.
Speaker F – [24:22 – 24:23]
Speed Herald.
Speaker B – [24:23 – 24:28]
Yeah. Speed Herald after like a 20 minute invocation. And I wish
Speaker B – [24:28 – 24:29]
that I could see that one on video.
Speaker F – [24:29 – 24:30]
Was it.
Speaker E – [24:30 – 24:33]
It must have been getting laughs for 20 minutes to keep it worked.
Speaker B – [24:33 – 24:43]
Well, I mean the the history and lore of that particular set is that it worked very well, I believe it, I choose to believe it.
Speaker C – [24:43 – 24:45]
And then it never worked again.
Speaker F – [24:45 – 24:47]
And yes, it’s a documented
Speaker F – [24:47 – 24:48]
on the wiki.
Speaker B – [24:48 – 24:52]
Yes it is, it’s somewhere on the wiki. That’s I think, where I read it.
Speaker C – [24:52 – 24:59]
That’s well, Luke, um, you were mentioning how you moved from LA to Berlin, is that correct?
Speaker E – [24:59 – 25:07]
No, I originally from, uh, Vancouver, in fact, West Vancouver. Just a hop, skip and a jump from from Jen.
Speaker F – [25:07 – 25:07]
Yeah
Speaker C – [25:07 – 25:09]
And me, kind of. I’m in Seattle.
Speaker E – [25:09 – 25:27]
In Seattle? Yeah, yeah, but no, Jen’s very close. Just last year, I was within, I think, 2 or 3km of Jen’s house. That’s true. Yeah. Yeah, it’s very true. So I was literally. Yeah, but I moved to. Yeah, I get all the local references Jen makes. She talks. She talks about PC
Speaker E – [25:27 – 25:31]
fairies and talking about getting some food at the Earls on the.
Speaker F – [25:31 – 25:31]
Yeah.
Speaker E – [25:31 – 25:36]
I’m like, yes, I get that, I understand, I understand that reference.
Speaker F – [25:36 – 25:40]
I know that burger. I know that burger.
Speaker E – [25:40 – 25:44]
Yes. I remember eating there as a kid and they had the pirate packs.
Speaker F – [25:44 – 25:46]
Do you remember those? Yeah.
Speaker B – [25:46 – 25:47]
Oh, I remember
Speaker B – [25:47 – 26:05]
I made a scene about a pirate pack once and I didn’t define it enough, like I said, oh, the little child, the child size burger, whatever. And I tried to define it, but it wasn’t clear enough. And then everyone’s questioned at the end is what is a pirate pack? And then I was like, oh, I didn’t do my job, didn’t do my regional reference
Speaker E – [26:05 – 26:27]
This is a great kind of segue into, yeah, I moved to Germany in 2014 to, to continue my education. Uh, and I did that here, and I’ve been there ever since, been here ever since. And I started doing improv here in Berlin. There’s a school, actually, if you if you pull out
Speaker E – [26:27 – 26:46]
uh, How to Be the World’s Greatest Improviser by Will Hines. And you read the back, uh, the Noah and Josh Telson of Comedy Cafe Berlin are mentioned there. And Will Haines has kind of been, uh, he downplays his, uh, his impact. But his name’s outside. He’s been there a couple times. So he’s, he
Speaker E – [26:46 – 27:01]
helped them set up the school. I believe he even coached the team. But yeah, we do it here in English. And the references is very interesting because a lot of people here are non-native speakers of English, which makes improv absolutely fascinating.
Speaker F – [27:01 – 27:02]
Yeah.
Speaker C – [27:02 – 27:05]
So you do improv there in English primarily.
Speaker E – [27:05 – 27:06]
They they do it
Speaker E – [27:06 – 27:24]
here in Berlin. There’s, uh, a lot of English improv. There’s. So there’s a weird distinction in Europe, there’s improv and impro without the V, which is more theatrical based. So it’s a lot more if you think of, I don’t know, pretentious European theater. That’s kind of what it is.
Speaker F – [27:24 – 27:26]
Interesting. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker C – [27:26 – 27:26]
So
Speaker C – [27:26 – 27:29]
which one do you do improv or improv with the V yeah.
Speaker E – [27:29 – 27:46]
Okay. The long form stuff, UCB style kind of influence there. But yeah, because of that. So a lot there’s actually just the other night at the theater there was Turkish improv. So improv entirely in Turkish. I know there’s a Spanish speaking group, Polish speaking, uh, Italian
Speaker E – [27:46 – 27:51]
in I don’t think there’s a French, but there’s a also a lot of German speaking improv.
Speaker F – [27:51 – 27:51]
Wow.
Speaker E – [27:51 – 28:06]
But it makes it very interesting because when if we were to do a scene together, we kind of have the same cultural upbringing in Pacific Northwest, North America. We have the same reference points
Speaker E – [28:06 – 28:16]
to to things. Throw that all out, gone. You know, you don’t have that anymore. So you can’t reference URLs.
Speaker F – [28:16 – 28:20]
I don’t know no URLs. You can URLs. Yeah.
Speaker E – [28:20 – 28:26]
You can’t reference it because no one’s gonna be like what the hell’s URLs? Who’s URL. And I think it makes for some
Speaker E – [28:26 – 28:46]
very interesting improv because you can no longer fall back on that crutch that happens, I think, from time to time when people will be like, oh, I don’t have anything funny. Okay, let’s put in like a reference to a famous film. I can’t do that because not everyone has seen whatever film they might have heard. Like when we were
Speaker E – [28:46 – 28:55]
doing short form, we would do the, uh, what’s it called? Um, let’s make a date style game. Right. Familiar with that one. Right. And they name a celebrity.
Speaker B – [28:55 – 29:00]
Oh, name a celebrity, uh, Taylor Swift.
Speaker E – [29:00 – 29:06]
Yeah, right. So that’s the level of celebrity you need to get. Okay? You can’t do anyone specific
Speaker E – [29:06 – 29:20]
Like actor. Like, very, very famous actors work, very famous musicians work. But anything kind of more lower down than that, which maybe us from Canada or us would know. People be like, I don’t know who that is. Never heard of that person.
Speaker F – [29:20 – 29:21]
Yeah.
Speaker E – [29:21 – 29:25]
So you really can’t, uh, fall back on that. And it’s
Speaker E – [29:25 – 29:34]
I think makes for some very interesting improv because you’re no longer pulling on references. You really are pulling on your own life.
Speaker F – [29:34 – 29:37]
Right. And does that go ahead? Sorry.
Speaker C – [29:37 – 29:45]
Um, does that lead to kind of more relationship based improv like that really leans into like, relationships and those kind of things
Speaker E – [29:45 – 30:05]
Absolutely. Yeah. I would say right now, at least at, uh, Comedy Cafe Berlin, it is super grounded, super truthy, improv sort of speed of life. TJ and Dave, uh, style. That’s kind of taken over, which I’ll admit, it’s fun, but I do like the ingestion of silly and just being wacky and
Speaker E – [30:05 – 30:25]
having things in a strange reality. Yeah, yeah. So it’s a lot of very relationship based scenes. There’s a lot of very truth based scenes, truth based teams actually. Sorry. So following that, uh, TJ Dave style roasting. Yeah. So it focuses a lot on that. Just relationships between
Speaker E – [30:25 – 30:26]
people.
Speaker C – [30:26 – 30:42]
Amazing. That’s interesting because that is something I like, I really enjoy, I really like delving into relationships and scenes and I but I do think if that was like all we could do because there was just nothing we could draw from, like that would get kind of tedious as well. So do you find like.
Speaker E – [30:42 – 30:45]
Yes, a little bit. It could be fun
Speaker E – [30:45 – 31:05]
Yeah. But I do like going to not Wacky Ville or Crazy Town quickly. But it’s fun to, you know, have characters with unusual or foolish behavior, as I think Will Haynes most recent Substack post talked about The Fool. And very much like that, you have someone with a silly or strange belief, and they justify it
Speaker E – [31:05 – 31:19]
and they’re very foolish, and it’s quite fun to play with that. Yeah, I agree, if you’re always yeah, if you’re just playing yourself or a grounded version like, okay, that’s fine. But I have reality for that.
Speaker F – [31:19 – 31:20]
Mhm.
Speaker B – [31:20 – 31:25]
Although I am also found to be a fool quite often in reality
Speaker B – [31:25 – 31:27]
as it happened.
Speaker F – [31:27 – 31:32]
Yeah.
Speaker B – [31:32 – 31:38]
Well, speaking of weird words, I, uh, you, uh, have a book, I think that you did.
Speaker E – [31:38 – 31:45]
Yeah, I did, I, I came prepared, so I’ve set the bar high for everyone who Luke has set the bar so high, everyone
Speaker E – [31:45 – 31:47]
needs to bring a show and tell item.
Speaker C – [31:47 – 31:47]
Mhm.
Speaker F – [31:47 – 31:50]
That’s it, that’s it, that’s it. Yeah.
Speaker E – [31:50 – 32:05]
So I have this book here which I’ve had for a very long time. It’s called Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, obscure and Preposterous Words. And it’s what it says on the tin. It’s full of unusual obscure
Speaker E – [32:05 – 32:09]
preposterous words. And I, I believe I’ve heard the show before. You have a segment.
Speaker F – [32:09 – 32:10]
We do.
Speaker C – [32:10 – 32:15]
We have the word of the week. Wait, Jen, should we have Luke pick our word of the week?
Speaker B – [32:15 – 32:22]
I think so I, I think that this is what the word should be. Whatever it is. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker F – [32:22 – 32:22]
That’s right.
Speaker E – [32:22 – 32:25]
Well let’s get a bit of feedback. So there are
Speaker E – [32:25 – 32:40]
Yeah, 237 or so pages in this book, I will ask you for a number between about one and 237 or actually sorry about 11. It starts on page 11 and 237.
Speaker B – [32:40 – 32:41]
All right Katrina
Speaker B – [32:41 – 32:47]
135 135 okay I’m going to go page 135.
Speaker E – [32:47 – 32:51]
Oh. All right. It’s we’re in the m m section.
Speaker F – [32:51 – 32:58]
Mm m sorry. Mhm. Mhm. Do you want columns.
Speaker E – [32:58 – 33:00]
Do you want left column or right column.
Speaker B – [33:00 – 33:04]
Oh Jen pick uh the right column
Speaker E – [33:04 – 33:24]
The right column okay. Let’s see what have we got here that looks like that’s you know with. Oh well here we go. This word is called mustard. Mustard. Mustard and its definition is an absent minded dreamer or
Speaker E – [33:24 – 33:25]
fool.
Speaker F – [33:25 – 33:29]
Oh, what what what.
Speaker B – [33:29 – 33:36]
Oh my gosh, what an absent minded dreamer or fool.
Speaker F – [33:36 – 33:38]
That’s right. And it’s like dreamer.
Speaker E – [33:38 – 33:39]
Fool.
Speaker C – [33:39 – 33:43]
It’s like mustard without the T. I can remember that without the T mustard
Speaker B – [33:43 – 33:47]
Mustard without the T, I assume it’s mustard.
Speaker F – [33:47 – 33:48]
Yeah, I don’t know.
Speaker E – [33:48 – 33:53]
I have to look the pronunciation, but that’s, uh, that that was a great pick.
Speaker F – [33:53 – 33:54]
That was.
Speaker B – [33:54 – 33:58]
Thank you Luke. And thank you book.
Speaker F – [33:58 – 33:58]
Thank you.
Speaker E – [33:58 – 34:02]
Yeah, this book I, I really loved that book. I highly recommend it.
Speaker F – [34:02 – 34:03]
Yeah. I might have to buy
Speaker F – [34:03 – 34:04]
a book this year.
Speaker B – [34:04 – 34:09]
Yeah, yeah, me too. But it might be a book that I actually read.
Speaker F – [34:09 – 34:11]
Right? Right.
Speaker B – [34:11 – 34:11]
You know. Yeah.
Speaker C – [34:11 – 34:15]
An actual useful book that won’t just be on my shelf.
Speaker E – [34:15 – 34:23]
What’s interesting is if you kind of read through it, some of the words that might have been unusual at the time of its publication are actually have entered common use
Speaker E – [34:23 – 34:43]
I don’t remember, because this is from the 70s. Uh, so some of the words I think might have been more uncommon back then, but I’ve kind of come into common parlance, uh, uh, nowadays, like Riz. Yeah. Oh, you know what? I’m I’m curious, has someone come up with a Riz before? Oh, no
Speaker C – [34:43 – 34:48]
And did it mean did it mean the same thing or not?
Speaker F – [34:48 – 34:50]
Yeah. Very true.
Speaker E – [34:50 – 34:55]
Let’s see. Is there anyone with Riz? No, it doesn’t look like it.
Speaker B – [34:55 – 34:59]
Oh, I think all of us here have a little bit of Riz though.
Speaker F – [34:59 – 35:01]
A little bit. Yeah. We all just a little bit.
Speaker E – [35:01 – 35:01]
Oh
Speaker E – [35:01 – 35:05]
there’s this one Rick Citrix that’s a great word. Rick. Citrix.
Speaker B – [35:05 – 35:07]
Rick. Citrix. Oh what does that mean? Rick.
Speaker E – [35:07 – 35:13]
Citrix. Well, based on what it sounds like, what do you think it could mean, like Citrix.
Speaker B – [35:13 – 35:17]
Citrix. Well, it’s like I’m just thinking of the cereal.
Speaker C – [35:17 – 35:21]
I can’t think that’s that’s where I was that’s where I was going to. But like Rick’s
Speaker C – [35:21 – 35:26]
makes me think of, like, rickety. So like a wagon. So like a wagon full of Trix cereal is what I’m saying.
Speaker F – [35:26 – 35:28]
There goes. That’s it.
Speaker B – [35:28 – 35:32]
That’s a right answer. That’s the right answer.
Speaker E – [35:32 – 35:37]
It’s a scolding, nasty old woman, uh, scolding, nasty old woman.
Speaker B – [35:37 – 35:41]
Hi. My name is. Yeah, that’s that’s probably me
Speaker B – [35:41 – 35:53]
This actually reminds me of a of an improv game that Shannon O’Neill plays, which is, uh, one person gives the word, makes up a word, and then the next person has to give the definition of that word. That’s.
Speaker E – [35:53 – 36:01]
Wait. Hold on. Is that she has an exercise because I’ve come up, there’s the warm up game. I don’t know what you call it. We call it here electric company
Speaker E – [36:01 – 36:06]
where you give the first syllable and the second syllable. Oh, I don’t know.
Speaker F – [36:06 – 36:09]
I’ve not, I haven’t played that, I like that.
Speaker E – [36:09 – 36:11]
Have you played it, Katrina I’ve played it.
Speaker C – [36:11 – 36:18]
Yeah. I don’t remember giving an example that or like giving a definition that I think it was just. No.
Speaker E – [36:18 – 36:21]
But based on that I created a, a game
Speaker E – [36:21 – 36:41]
Um, so if I yeah, we basically take two syllables and then put them together and you get a word and then the next person has to now define that word. Oh, and I didn’t realize I like that it’s exact same game. Yeah. That could kind of circle back on the the doing it in a non-native
Speaker E – [36:41 – 37:01]
language. So a lot of the people I play with English is their second or third language. You know, they can struggle not they struggle. They’re very fluent. But when you don’t have that safety of it being your native language, you do kind of be like, oh no, am I saying this properly? Am I doing this correct? There’s that little voice in the back of your head, you know, when you’re like, oh
Speaker E – [37:01 – 37:20]
no, am I saying this or doing this right? And I, I find people do have a little bit of a difficult time here justifying and just being really silly and just, you know, this word means this. Or if they if they don’t know something in English, they assume, oh, I’m, I’m stupid. I don’t know this word. I don’t know what it means. Uh oh. I’m in trouble
Speaker E – [37:20 – 37:31]
Whereas I say that is the improv gift because now it’s whatever you want it to be. Yeah, and you can. And we as other players can play off of that and have so much fun.
Speaker B – [37:31 – 37:40]
Oh I love it. Yeah. It’s it’s really the, the leaping without looking sort of uh mindset which is wonderful to have where it’s just like I’m
Speaker B – [37:40 – 37:43]
just going to go for this, whatever this is. Let’s just go.
Speaker F – [37:43 – 37:44]
Exactly.
Speaker E – [37:44 – 37:51]
You’re confident, know your character knows exactly what that word means, and it means that to you. Yeah. It doesn’t mean that in actuality, who cares?
Speaker F – [37:51 – 37:52]
Yeah.
Speaker B – [37:52 – 38:00]
Doesn’t matter. The stakes are so low. That’s what I love. So when you realize that those stakes are so low that you can just have fun
Speaker E – [38:00 – 38:03]
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, a lot of fun.
Speaker B – [38:03 – 38:10]
Be silly, as I was saying earlier, but do you have anything you’d like to plug, Luke?
Speaker E – [38:10 – 38:15]
Oh where’s the you’re going to add the plug theme in post, I presume.
Speaker B – [38:15 – 38:19]
Uh, yes. Yes we will. Okay. Let’s let’s all just let’s all just
Speaker B – [38:19 – 38:20]
pause for a second.
Speaker F – [38:20 – 38:21]
Mhm. Mhm.
Speaker B – [38:21 – 38:25]
All right. Let’s just assume that it was added in.
Speaker F – [38:25 – 38:26]
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker E – [38:26 – 38:30]
It was added in I think again like those adds like really that was a solid plug theme.
Speaker F – [38:30 – 38:31]
Thank you thank you.
Speaker E – [38:31 – 38:34]
Yeah yeah I can, I can hear the production value.
Speaker F – [38:34 – 38:35]
Oh my god.
Speaker C – [38:35 – 38:37]
Oh well now we have to pause for that.
Speaker F – [38:37 – 38:39]
Oh production value
Speaker F – [38:39 – 38:41]
you value up there.
Speaker G – [38:41 – 38:42]
Production.
Speaker F – [38:42 – 38:43]
There we go.
Speaker E – [38:43 – 38:49]
Wow. Just it’s professional. The professionalism you two exerts is outstanding.
Speaker C – [38:49 – 38:51]
Oh, thank you so much.
Speaker E – [38:51 – 38:59]
Uh, I guess if you’re in Berlin in April, I have, in theory, a show that
Speaker E – [38:59 – 39:15]
we’ve signed up for. I don’t know if we’ve got it yet, but there’s a show called The Hedge, which is a, uh, twice a month show that features indie teams performing whatever format they want. And we’re hoping to do a slacker. We submitted one. Yes.
Speaker F – [39:15 – 39:17]
Very nice. Yes.
Speaker C – [39:17 – 39:19]
So it’s a little bit Schrodinger show, right
Speaker C – [39:19 – 39:20]
now, but yes.
Speaker E – [39:20 – 39:38]
Although I do for sure have a show, uh, because I’m doing a pretty flower class in person here in Berlin. We do have a student show. So again, if you’re in Berlin on a date to be determined at some point at the end of March, show up. It’s show up.
Speaker B – [39:38 – 39:39]
Nice
Speaker F – [39:39 – 39:43]
It’s completely free, I love it.
Speaker C – [39:43 – 39:47]
Well, if I happen to be in Germany in a month, I’ll let you know.
Speaker F – [39:47 – 39:49]
Awesome. Thanks a lot. Yeah.
Speaker C – [39:49 – 39:50]
You’re welcome.
Speaker F – [39:50 – 39:51]
Yeah.
Speaker C – [39:51 – 39:52]
Gotcha.
Speaker B – [39:52 – 39:57]
I mean, we never know what our futures are going to be, so we have no idea if I’m there. We don’t know.
Speaker F – [39:57 – 39:59]
I could spontaneously
Speaker F – [39:59 – 40:02]
just teleport to to Berlin.
Speaker E – [40:02 – 40:04]
It’s. That’s theoretically possible.
Speaker C – [40:04 – 40:05]
That’s truly the dream.
Speaker B – [40:05 – 40:12]
Yeah, that I would love that ability. So, science, please order that up so we can make this happen.
Speaker C – [40:12 – 40:19]
And please, like, keep all of everything in the same location. You know, don’t make it, like, weird where you, like, come back and like your. You
Speaker C – [40:19 – 40:22]
know what I mean? Science. Yeah. Figure it out. Yeah.
Speaker B – [40:22 – 40:35]
A second dual person. Anyways. Yeah. Anyways, I want to thank you, Luke, so much for coming on the show, being our first guest, bringing props, uh, bringing resources.
Speaker E – [40:35 – 40:36]
I’ve listened to every episode.
Speaker F – [40:36 – 40:37]
Oh my gosh.
Speaker C – [40:37 – 40:38]
Well, thank you so much
Speaker F – [40:38 – 40:39]
Thank you.
Speaker C – [40:39 – 40:42]
We we do to but simply because we’re involved.
Speaker F – [40:42 – 40:43]
Oh yeah.
Speaker C – [40:43 – 40:44]
Yeah.
Speaker B – [40:44 – 40:56]
So yeah, if we blank out a bit maybe we haven’t watched our own episode or something, but then we come right back in and we’re watching again. But thank you. Thank you so much for joining us, Luke. We really appreciate it.
Speaker F – [40:56 – 40:57]
Thank you. Hey.
Speaker E – [40:57 – 40:58]
Yeah, it’s been an honor
Speaker C – [40:58 – 41:03]
It has. And, um, we’ll we’ll see you on the on the internet.
Speaker F – [41:03 – 41:06]
We’ll see you on bye bye bye bye.
Speaker B – [41:06 – 41:18]
And I’m just going to hit end recording there. I will split this off. Ah. And recording. Are you sure you want to stop the recording and we’re back. Welcome back. That was an interview. Thank
Speaker B – [41:18 – 41:19]
you very much, Luke.
Speaker C – [41:19 – 41:26]
Thank you so much. Luke, you are our very first guest. And, uh, I love learning, uh, all those fun words.
Speaker F – [41:26 – 41:27]
Yeah.
Speaker B – [41:27 – 41:38]
No kidding. And one of them we saw a brief preview of. So we’ll we’ll see that again. Uh, but first now now we have the ads
Speaker B – [41:38 – 41:43]
after the interview. Yeah. All right, let’s roll that.
Speaker F – [41:43 – 41:48]
Have you been raised to never let history repeat itself?
Speaker H – [41:48 – 41:58]
You might be living in a world of first beats only. How do you know if you’re trying to survive on first beats alone? Symptoms include your first beat. Was frat bros heading to Burning Man and your
Speaker H – [41:58 – 42:18]
second beat was something unrelated about two sisters gossiping about Nazis after school specials or something. Or you thought of a perfect rooster callback, but you kept your mouth shut because you thought no one needed to revisit that great farm scene, or you thought you could have made a solid pigeon pecking connection
Speaker H – [42:18 – 42:38]
during the third beat. But you didn’t because it would have been too much to go back 30 minutes in the set. You know you’re living in Anti-second beat lifestyle that rejects historical repetition. If this very advertisement gives you chills, nausea, acid reflux, a bad case of heartburn, vertigo, unreal
Speaker H – [42:38 – 42:57]
renting jazz hands and chills. If these symptoms resemble your history hating reality, you are living in a world of first beats only and you need help from us here at Do It Again, Please and Improv Sabbatical. Do it again, please. And improv sabbatical. You’ll redo history. You’ll get reps of beats. History starts repeating itself by noon. You’ll
Speaker H – [42:57 – 43:16]
receive the same dry toast you got for breakfast and also for lunch. And also for dinner. Oh, that asshole who stole your parking spot when you arrived. Don’t worry, you’ll see them again. We assigned you parking spot 17 F, and we also hired Bryce to pull in to 17 F seconds before you arrived.
Speaker B – [43:16 – 43:17]
In fact
Speaker B – [43:17 – 43:37]
we’ll assign you the task to go off site and pick up more post-it notepads for do It again, please. And improv Sabbaticals central office five times per day for the length of your stay. And every time you repeat this task, Bryce will be waiting in their Rav4 and pulling to 17 F right as you pull up. Good work Bryce, and good work you for reliving this annoying experience.
Speaker B – [43:37 – 43:57]
Five times per day. Doesn’t seem funny yet. Don’t worry. The 11th time Bryce pulls into that spot, you’ll get it, because that’s why you’re here. You need to learn to, you know, get it. You’ll marinate on that great comeback while you’re in aisle five at Office Depot. That’s where the post-its are. And eventually you’ll tell
Speaker B – [43:57 – 44:16]
off Bryce perfectly every time. So many beats, so much opportunity, so much Bryce here at Do It Again, Please. And improv Sabbatical. We believe a joke gets funnier the more times you say it, and that dry toast gets moderately tolerable by day eight. But best of all, we’ll let you mangle your
Speaker B – [44:16 – 44:35]
second beat with a premise that barely resembles the first beat, but at least demonstrates you’re moderately aware of the relevant concepts and technique by the time you drive home from the sabbatical. Don’t live in a world of first beats, only there’s always more roosters to call back, and there’s always more Bryce. Call us at one 800 555 beat.
Speaker B – [44:35 – 44:47]
That’s one 805 55BEAT. Call me please and we’re back. It’ll be funny eventually.
Speaker C – [44:47 – 44:50]
Maybe I find it funny.
Speaker B – [44:50 – 44:55]
Oh, thank you, thank you so much. Oh, I might start blushing again. All right, we got some slides
Speaker B – [44:55 – 45:05]
here before we go. We’re just doing a few things. Let’s see if we got some slides. There we are with our word of the week.
Speaker C – [45:05 – 45:15]
Katrina, what do you think about this word of the week I love it I still don’t really know how to pronounce it because if it’s if it’s taken from as, oh
Speaker C – [45:15 – 45:29]
nope. If it says, uh, Miguel to muse or Muser Muser Muser then then is it pronounced mustard? Because I really want to pronounce it like mustard without the T?
Speaker B – [45:29 – 45:35]
Yeah, that’s a thing. What I see for our podcast listeners, our word is mustard or mustard
Speaker B – [45:35 – 45:55]
Mustard from our interview earlier. And this means dreamer, absent minded, foolish fellow or vagabond. We’re all the definitions that I found on the internet for this one, and it comes from Middle English to muse
Speaker B – [45:55 – 46:00]
or a muser. So I guess it would be mustard.
Speaker C – [46:00 – 46:04]
Mustard, I suppose, or mustard.
Speaker B – [46:04 – 46:11]
You know, I really should have looked this up prior to the episode, and I regret not doing so. I usually do, and I didn’t.
Speaker C – [46:11 – 46:15]
Today I feel like this is our episode of actually showing that we’re not trying
Speaker C – [46:15 – 46:16]
our hardest.
Speaker B – [46:16 – 46:32]
Yeah, we’re really trying to be the third best, the third nerdiest, nerdiest, you know, every nerdiest improv show has an off week. Yeah, I guess this is our off week. We’re relying very heavily on you, Luke, for this week.
Speaker F – [46:32 – 46:33]
Yes.
Speaker B – [46:33 – 46:35]
Yeah. All right
Speaker B – [46:35 – 46:35]
let’s see.
Speaker F – [46:35 – 46:36]
Thank you.
Speaker B – [46:36 – 46:55]
Thank you very much Luke, for saving the show. Uh, next slide we have is to submit to us. You can you can come you can come be a guest as well. Yeah. You can contact us on the website weenies. Or you can contact us on social media when
Speaker B – [46:55 – 47:01]
improv show. Either way, send us what you want us to be talking about or come visit us.
Speaker C – [47:01 – 47:12]
Yeah, we we would love to talk improv. Your history, what you like about it, what you don’t like about it, how you find inspiration for it, um, etc..
Speaker B – [47:12 – 47:15]
Yes. So Katrina will grill
Speaker B – [47:15 – 47:15]
you.
Speaker C – [47:15 – 47:21]
I, I grill like a dad.
Speaker B – [47:21 – 47:23]
Like a dad grill.
Speaker C – [47:23 – 47:28]
Yeah. Again. Off week, off week.
Speaker B – [47:28 – 47:35]
All right, well we should I think this will also raise us a little bit back up again to
Speaker B – [47:35 – 47:50]
Luke levels with our segment. Changing of the wheel. Oh, I couldn’t even say Will’s name right. Will Hines photo plank. There we go.
Speaker C – [47:50 – 47:53]
Oh, I like the hat. It’s a nice hat.
Speaker B – [47:53 – 47:55]
Very, very nice
Speaker B – [47:55 – 47:59]
hat. I am a hat person, I like hats, I think that’s a good one.
Speaker C – [47:59 – 48:00]
It’s a good hat.
Speaker B – [48:00 – 48:01]
Good hat.
Speaker C – [48:01 – 48:04]
I think that raised us up to at least second nerdiest improv show.
Speaker B – [48:04 – 48:13]
Definitely. That photo alone will bring us back up. Yep. Podcast listeners, you’ll have to. You’ll have to look at the video.
Speaker C – [48:13 – 48:14]
Yeah, well, we’ll
Speaker C – [48:14 – 48:21]
have to. Maybe we should be posting these somewhere. Maybe. Maybe not, maybe not.
Speaker B – [48:21 – 48:24]
Maybe. Yeah, well, we can put them on social media. Perhaps.
Speaker C – [48:24 – 48:28]
Maybe in like, the show notes. Maybe we’ll just post a link or something.
Speaker B – [48:28 – 48:33]
Yeah, well, we put a link to the to the full to the full episode. They could just scroll through.
Speaker C – [48:33 – 48:34]
You could just
Speaker C – [48:34 – 48:37]
watch a clip from next week’s episode when it would be on the wall the whole time.
Speaker B – [48:37 – 48:39]
Yeah, yeah, that will work. That will.
Speaker C – [48:39 – 48:40]
We figured it out.
Speaker B – [48:40 – 48:40]
Yeah.
Speaker C – [48:40 – 48:43]
We figured we’re nothing if not problem solvers.
Speaker B – [48:43 – 48:54]
Yes we are. We’re trying very hard in this episode, even if we don’t win. All right. Well, I think that’s it for us. Thank you, everyone for
Speaker B – [48:54 – 48:56]
visiting. Let’s roll those credits.
Speaker A – [48:56 – 48:59]
Roll in the credits. Roll in those credits.
Speaker B – [48:59 – 49:12]
In the credits. I feel like we should be in a car. The two of us rolling down a street in some kind of like a Chevette with this theme music that you can’t hear.
Speaker C – [49:12 – 49:14]
I know the
Speaker C – [49:14 – 49:20]
theme music now. Yeah. Did you pick it intentionally to sound like the theme song? Because it kind of sounds like the theme song I did.
Speaker B – [49:20 – 49:22]
I picked it after the theme song.
Speaker C – [49:22 – 49:26]
That’s like, that’s a very good choice. Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker G – [49:26 – 49:53]
All right, well black out.
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