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Game Face performed its show, and it went great. Mostly great. It rounded up to great. Very good, at least. Really. We had decided to do a show of all-new and all-political material, but put it off long enough that we were crazed throwing it together. One of the sketches we essentially re-wrote at lunch. But I feel like we’ve all done enough stuff together and separately that we can do a LOT in a short time.

A big house showed up: like sixty people, I guess? Gavin and Silvjia handed out Hershey’s kisses to people as they walked in. Neil did a great right-wing Statue of Liberty. Rob’s “John Kerryoke” was great. Mitch came through with a very “him” sketch called “The Only Bush I Trust Is The One In My Yard” — taken from Rob’s title — in which he’s a guy and I’m a bush in his yard, and he trusts me. It hit pretty big, perhaps because Mitch had me dressed up as an enormous hedge.

Quickly-developed shows are both exciting and exhausting. It’s best when there’s time for pitch meetings, table reads, rewrites, dress rehearsal, tweaking, final dress and show. Then there’s shows like tonight — write it Sunday, rewrite it Wednesday, buy props Thursday and do it that night. Not quite that bad, but it was closer to that template than the other. I didn’t have time to be creative with prop-making so I just cruised into Halloween Adventure costume shop and slapped down cash for a statue of liberty headpiece and a construction worker’s helmet. I was stressed out, or as much as you can be when trying out fake Statue of Liberty torches amongst aisles of wigs and fake mustaches.

Second favorite moment of the day: trying to clean up specific word/prop choices right before going on stage. “What’s funnier, a broom or a shovel?” Mitch asked me, and I surprised myself by having a very passionatie opinion: “A shovel, definitely.” Also Neil wrestling with whether his Statue of Liberty should berate his driver as being a “bleeding heart” or a “blame-America-first” leftists.

Favorite moment of the day: While reading sketches through in the green room today, Bobby Moynihan overheard us and said “If you guys need full-sized cutouts of Bush, Kerry and Angelina Jolie, I’ve got them in my car.”