Acting Improv
Acting Improv is THE best activity there is.
Lancaster
Acting Improv, or AI, is offered almost every day, often twice, and since the start of the weekly/daily system, has also been offered as a weekly. The format is supremely basic; the students sit in a circle and suggest games and game scenarios. Then the RA (or a student the RA has designated to lead the activity) selects the game, the situation, and the actors involved. There is no requirement to be in the games; indeed, many CTYers just come to AI to be entertained.
At LAN.08.1, the games usually ran in the following order:
1. Park Bench
2. Freeze
3. Party Quirks/Late to Work/Press Conference
4. World's Worst
5. Amazing Sphinx
Also see Project Ektelo, an ongoing project for the introduction of new AI games.
Games
- Park Bench
- Freeze
- Slideshow
- Late to Work
- Party Quirks
- Press Conference
- Dating Game
- Amazing Sphinx
- Subconscious
- Chain Death Murder
- Foreign Film Dubs/Translator
- Superheroes
- Film Critics
- Questions
- Auctioneer
- New Choice
- Perpetual Machine
- 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1
- Sports Announcers
- World's Worst
- Half-life
Common Themes/Jokes
- Frank Wang
- Scientology
- Blood of the Innocent (Nixon)
- He was my friend! (Papa T)
- I don't think that's the right way to go to the bathroom!
- There can only be one! (On the park bench)
- Michael Jackson
- Zeke Weiner
- Killing Jokes (started by Nixon who would walk into the center, and pretend to shoot the offender)
- Giving birth
- Electric Shock which started with Hal in 05.2.
- Crucifixion of Christ
- Dick Cheney's shooting of his hunting partner
- Necrophilia (started by Race, who would lick the bodies of those pretending to die)
- "I'm a killer whale" was a park bench tactic often used on Otter Lee by John Harrison in 08. 2. At its crux, the joke escalated in a food chain from Otter/Killer Whale/Inuit/Alaskan Oil Driller... Many other AI games were later used to incorporate this gag.
- Earth-Moon-Quiznos-China somehow was made up by John Harrison in 08.2 which escalated to plenty of new chinas
Carlisle
Until 03.1, Improv was a common activity at Carlisle. In the second week of session 1, though, an offensive joke about 9/11 was made. It has not been offered since.
Things we like | |
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Activities and Games | The Game · Silent Football · Acting Improv · Agreedball · Art of War · Basketball · Blammo · Four Square · Kill Murray/Save Murray · Malkavian Poking Game · Slackjaw · Pokey · The Really Game · Risk · Ultimate Frisbee · Varsity Catch · Wanna buy a duck? · SNAKES!!! · Quiz Bowl · Mandatory Fun |
Card Games | 1000 Blank White Cards · Egyptian Ratscrew · FLAAR · Illuminati · Kemps · Mao · Scum, Presidents, Speed Capitalism, or Chinese Poker · Scum: The Masquerade · Set · Scroggle |
Movies | Monty Python · The Rocky Horror Picture Show · The Princess Bride · Alice in Wonderland · Dark Side of Oz · Starcrash · Xanadu |
Books | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · Catch-22 · Ender's Game · Harry Potter |
Other | 42 · Boobtag · Couching · FNORD · Grass orgy · Phone-flipping · Rina · Three |