As difficult as it is to write good comedy sketches, using improv to create them is enough to make you snap like Sly Stallone at the end of Copland.I don’t complain, however – nobody said it was gonna be easy, and I fully chose to follow up my Upright Citizens Brigade 101 class by immediately diving into 201.
Yesterday was my 201 graduation show, and it was a little different from the 101 grad show. Instead of using monologues to cull ideas for sketches, we used a technique called a “cloverleaf,” in which we took a suggestion from the audience, stood in a semi-circle and did word association. We then did 20 minutes of sketches based on that cloverleaf.
The show was great. I thought my classmates had fun and were really funny. That's them, above.
So what next? Hell yeah I’m taking 301. Though I’m waiting for one teacher in particular to come back from a mini hiatus, and he may be doing that next month. And if I thought 201 was a challenge, the next level is looking to end only way way: I collapse in a puddle of fail.
