The Virtual Apimpment

Dennis somehow escaped his box in the corner and posted on here!? How cool is that! I was actually going to start using my digital camera to take pictures of Dennis is various locales now that he has retired. I think I have to, lest he return to post again and again. I apologize, Dennis, for not letting you enjoy retirement as much as you deserve.

So Sketch 22 had our first show yesterday. We perform in a room just a notch bigger than the BLR, and it was just about full-capacity. No one sitting in the aisles that I saw, but just about every seat full. I wasn't expecting that, since Mission Improv is the biggest draw of the various student performances, but a big crowd was great. Definitely fun to be up there again.

I was in a hilariously nerdy sketch called "I am Fill-in-the-Blank." I play a superhero PR guy, who spends his day trying to name a speedster, who got his powers when bit by a prize fighting cock. I spend the entire time coming up with names such as "Cock Fighter, Speed Pecker, Cock Chaser," and of course, "Chicken Fucker." In the end he's finally named "Running Dude," and heads out...when it is revealed that I am the supervillian called "The Rolodex!" and I am using the PR as a front to gain superheroes' personal information, where I will fight them with my minions Faxx, Stapler, and Sticky-Pad. That sketch went over well.

The show had so much blood. There was a sketch called "My Favorite Things," standard office humor at first, when the spurned employee calls in a West Side Story gang to threaten his boss to "give Jimmy back his pencil holder." The boss then calls in his gang, a group of purple belt karate masters. After some choereographed fighting, one of the West Side gang members stabs a karate master. Everyone is shocked, and he says "I thought we was fighting!" Most of us run away, and the few on stage are watching Sean die and don't know what to do. The lead karate master says "You know what I do when I'm feeling sad or scared?" and proceeds to lead them in a round of "My Favorite Things."

The last sketch is called Fire...two girls are upset about their friend Tim's recent breakup with his girlfriend. They run into a woman who runs out of a burning building, begging to use their phone to call the first department so they can save her baby in the building. They decide this is just what Tim needs to snap out of his funk. After a long while (and comedy), Tim finally shows up, and rushes into the building, while the girls look proud of themselves. When he comes out holding the blanket, he walks over to the woman....and there's only ashes inside. Everyone whistles and backs off the stage, and when they're all gone, Tim says to the woman, "I can't whistle." Then adds, "But you know what I do, whenever I feel sad, or scared..." and starts a rendition of My Favorite Things, while the rest of the cast comes out with hilarious costumes (I used my Rolodex costume). We had houseplants, a shark, a guy in nothing but boxers...and after the song, Tim (played by Sean) gets stabbed again.

My long explanation doesn't do the show justice. It was supposedly taped for the TV station here, but I don't know how the quality turned out. Overall, it was a lot of fun, and went over well.

Then of course came the afterparty. I had SoCoke. It was delicious as always. I told the story of the Invisibility Cloak, and the girl who loves Harry Potter got a huge thrill out of it. Nothing so bad happened this time...I actually got stuck playing Uno most of the party. We were playing to see who lost, which meant EVERYONE had to be eliminated. This girl Mara and I had to play for 2 hours until one of us was finally eliminated. It was me who finally was.

Even Uno for hours was fun though, and it was a good party and a great show overall. Not too sure if there's anything else to say, and this post is probably long enough anyway.

Have a good Thanksgiving everyone!!