Holy Crap... I'm in a show!

Lately, I've started going to the Improv at Mahall's in Cleveland.  It's a fun show with a great group of people.  

I've tried both stand-up comedy and community theater in the past, and Improv takes the best of both worlds.  

Unlike stand-up, which is a solitary activity (it's just you on stage), Improv allows you to work with and play off others.  Also, my own experiences with stand-up has been that the comics have a very cut-throat mentality. 

In community theater you work with others, but it's extremely structured- you're limited to what the play is, or the director's interpretation of the play.  It becomes repetitive.  Plus, half the plays are very tragic in nature, and I continue a decade of being on a low-angst diet.

But with Improv, you work with a group of people, and come up with new things every time.  And we've been lucky to work with a great group of people at Mahall's.

From this group, we found out about a sketch comedy group starting up, and now we're part of The Public Squares.  I've always wanted to be on show like SNL or SCTV, so this is a dream come true.  Our shows are (pitch alert!)  Feb. 1 and 2nd.  The crew is great, and the skits are funny.  

Finally... the Mighty Bastard comes to the stage :)

 

Crowning Moment of Awesome- 08/14/2012

For a long time I was into Stand-up Comedy, and this remains my favorite 'bit' ever.  Larry Miller is an underrated genius: