Last night at Stepfathers, it was just Delaney, Gethard and myself. Tremendous fun. However, among the many good scenes was one in which I was a man teaching Chris how to price things at a yard sale. We spoke after and realized that in this scene we had broken every conventional “rule” of good scenes in improv. I was teaching a transaction scene without a relationship dynamic to a not-speaking, barely-reacting character, listing items without a pattern. Chris had one line and it was a question, pimping me into listing more. Delaney entered and tried to make a game out of the irrational prices I was making — which Chris and I ignored. That’s impressive! It really wasn’t that terrible a scene, if only because it was clear Gethard was leaving me out to dry so I could list random objects at a yard sale for three minutes. Fun, y’all.
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Feb 16th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
it’s funnier when you break rules…which was why I liked, maybe even loved Rob Latham’s : “John Kerry”…twas the best in my book.
Feb 19th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I don’t know if you could see Gethard’s face during that scene. It was obvious he had his edit line ready to go about a minute into the scene. Though you are right that you broke all the “rules” but the acceptance by both of you to just keep naming rediculous objects was very fun to watch. I was very happy to see a completely different paced and feel for a stepfather’s show.