I’m nearing the end of my Bad Dog Theatre course (2 classes to go!) and it’s been a fun and emotional 32 weeks. Mostly hillarious. It would suck bad if it was 32 weeks of sad improv. I’m feeling a bit down that I don’t have this outlet anymore however there are other classes I could take to fine tune my improv abilities, but there will be a needy “gimmie attention!” vacuum every Wednesday now.
Over the four months there were a few points that stick out in my mind:
The look my teacher Gord Oxley gave me when I was doing my character Q&A and I derailed his questioning and turned the whole interview homo.
Joseph pushing the boundaries hard: He was the first to mention a Lithuanian Steamer as breakfast cereal. He’s now in L.A. pitching a TV show to Sony. I wish him luck because he’s wicked talented and smart.
I ended a scene with Lara by suggesting we become “fuck buddies”. I was the first to use the f-bomb.
Meek Michelle blowing us all away by entering a scene by telling Earl to “Fuck off!”
Earl. Just Earl doing his deaf/codgety old guy shtick. Earl pulled out a few really good characters but I will always remember his “old guy in the elevator”.
Sue’s glances to the class when she’s on stage, looking for confirmation that what she just did/said was funny. In itself, that made me laugh.
Lisa’s outrageous French accent and her ability to accept whatever I threw at her.
Jennifer’s physicality. She actually makes you feel like she’s wrestling a snake.
Ahhh good times, good times…
“But Ted,” you interject, “How can we, as an audience, experience this comedy first hand (because god knows it’s not funny when you blog about it)?”
Glad you asked. Wed Aug 30th is our student show and is by invite only due to limited seating. Mine are taken, sorry. But our alumni is currently in discussions to do a night at the Victory Cafe. If they’ll have us. I’ll keep you posted on those dates.
So. Any suggestions as to what I should do next? I’m not going back to ROTC, so flag twirling is out. Musical theatre?
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You too Rene! I failed to mention your incredibly bad Irish Mary accent above. I am shamed!
Hoitie toitie hoitie toitie
god…I just realized that I used the same font/colour for my new title image as the Bad Dog site. How sub-concious is that?
dude, you can always take the advanced classes. It’s been a riot working wit’ you (notice how I did “wit'” as opposed to “with”. It makes me look flyer (do kids today still say fly?).
Doing improv comedy is a little scary, but, as you found, it can SO MUCH FUN!
Some of my classmates would create characters or say things that would totally crack me up in a scene!
Those were some good times…
I see a spoof of that Nanny show in your future–where you visit the homes of misbehaving bears and put the house in order, implementing such treats for good behaviours as line-dancing, pop-gun hunting, those bacon things wrapped around chestnuts soaked in soya sauce…opps, that’s MY craving right now….
why you need to take up screen printing, of course!