I don’t actually have time to do “Status” justice this week, so I’ll put that off to when I have time for a longer post. I should really stop promising specific posts! Instead, this week I’ll talk about two closely related tricks that we use to add humour to scenes.

( All too obvious )

I covered the biggest idea in improv last week, but there are still some more terms and rules I’d like to cover. Some of these may crop up again in future weeks, but others are such simple things that they don’t interact with anything else, but are often problems in workshops that need to be pointed out, and having the term really helps there.

( Improv terms )

Since this is the first of my blog posts about the nuts and bolts of improvised comedy, I’m going to start with two simple words (and one bit of punctuation) that contain one of the key ideas. “Yes, and…”

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From the results of my previous post, it seems like the way to go is with a similar hodge-podge of topics to how I used to write this blog. I'm going to start with a post about improv, and then move onto a politics post, although I expect those to be rare.
Next week I am bringing an improv show that we took to Edinburgh back to Cambridge, and ( Read more... )

Oxford Circus X-crossing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8337341.stmRead more... )

I was having a discussion with a friend of mine recently, in which she mentioned that as a kid she'd gone through a phase of being really interested in the Mayans. During this time she'd read pretty much everything she could find on them, and some of that she can still remember, although she's forgotten a lot of it. She then went on to ask me if I' ( Read more... )

Having got a little down about not being picked either for the improv Edinburgh show or as an actor for the Two Shades of Blue shows (I'm going with TSoB as a tech person now), I was made a lot happier by a small incident at an improv workshop for the shows that we did last week. In a scene in which everyone could only speak three words at a time ( Read more... )

Question: What do Bognor Regis, duck ponds, flu, an ancient civilization and velociraptors have in common ( Read more... )

Today's post is some shameless pimping - I've got a nice idea for tomorrow's post, and then Sunday's should hopefully be a round-up of NaBloPoMo ( Read more... )

I have a bunch of LARPers in my room. These seems like a good time to try an experiment. The following story was written one word a time. The stuff in brackets are some of the other comments that occured during the game ( Read more... )