Love Improv!

Tina, I had the most fun in writing and improv classes last week. I'm sorry I didn't write sooner but this blog didn't exist then and you were busy as always. I'm not mad. But yeah in writing we started doing blackouts, 10-15sec jokes. Oh why I'm telling you what a blackout is. Nothing is harder than blackouts but you basically did those every Saturday on Weekend Update, so I just have to work on it. Improv was really fun because a group came up with this clash of context piece: Amish girls at a bachelorette party at TGIF's. I knew once the line, "I'm whittling you something dirty," was said that this piece was going to be hilarious. It did not disappoint. It felt like a sketch that would come about during an improv set like "Wicked" that you and Rachel Dratch did.  I'm thinking about writing a sketch for it because it would fit into a sketch revue. Next we did an exercise in which we used a dry erase board as anything but a dry erase board. People were quite clever with it, using it as a face that would continually change expressions and backgrounds as the scene went on. In my scene with the dry erase board/Mormon husband, he kept trying to caress me. I think inanimate objects trying to caress you is always funny. Even the word caress is fun. In reference to my earlier post, why aren't these people in my writing and improv classes receiving the scholarships? I see actual potential.