Thea 102

Comedy Pigs Paper

Improvisation seemed hard at first when watching it in the class room on the DVD that professor Brady showed us. But the comedy pigs demonstrated something less complicated and more relatable too. I was thrown off immediately when I saw the little mermaid set up in the background of the stage but I did not let it throw me off completely. Unlike our class, the comedy pigs held a heavier cast than we did. While we only held six people in our group "Fuck it Bucket", the comedy pigs had about ten people I would say.

I am not sure if they played any warm up games in the back or if they even need too but they came out quickly explaining everything and performing as if it was second and nature to them. After many years of doing improvisation, I am sure that you become accustom to all the games or exercises that a group may do. I am still getting good at games we introduced later or in the middle of the semester. But the comedy pigs were great and in a small way, a bit of an inspiration to continue acting no matter where I may end up. The many games they played that were perfectly played improvised made me feel more interested in furthering my knowledge with acting and improvising.

Like any other improvisation group, they walked out and gave a warm welcoming as the comedy pigs. The games they played were nothing like the games we played in class and I believe that is because they have more experience. We are new to the event of improvisation while they have done it for years. What also stood out to me was that the improvisation group "Comedy Pigs" were not all young people. Some were older than others or others looked younger than the cast.

The comedy pigs played many games but the ones that stood out to me the most was world-wide, last letter, and the many inner thought games. World-wide was a game where the group created a sport based on the suggestion from the audience. With two commentators and two pairs of people for teams to compete, they made anything possible. The sport suggested to be created was making the bed, and immediately followed a world-wide broadcasted series of extreme bed making. At first it just seemed like a slow motion made up sport that was going to result in one team winning and the other one loosing. But then it became a feud between two teams that resulted in a fight. As both teams cheated and tried to gain the attention of the referee to display the cheating, the other team did brutal things to win. Eventually, the team that was losing strangled the other team and won.

Last letter was a game I liked a lot because it reminded me of the alphabet game. Instead of actually using the first letter to the last of the alphabet in order to create sentences. Last letter was a game where the last word of the sentence, and the words last letter determined the first letter of the first word of the next sentence. The suggestion was baseball and the scene became a catcher who kept calling the female pitcher baby. The bet was if she throws a pitch that can knock him over, he would have to take her out.

The inner thought games were fun because they became funny as soon as they took place on the stage. The first inner thought game was the date game where two people went on a date but their inner thoughts had determined their next actions. The game became a little rude when the two people playing had inner thoughts that disrespected the next person. The other inner thought game was used to determine what the actress would do while cleaning the bathroom. Instead of these thoughts being inner, they tended to be outer because it was the objects around her that were speaking. It was the dirt and grime of the bathroom talking and bad mouthing her because it hadn't been cleaned. This game was started off my suggestion of a broom when they asked of something we use to clean the house. In the game, I remember that a turd was talking to her explaining how it was never flushed.

One game I did notice that they played that was similar to ours which was freeze. Freeze is a basic game to me that can be done for fun, as actors, or as improvisers. Other than freeze, any other game did not get much of my attention but overall the performance was great and hilarious. I look forward to trying out to be an improviser for a group in New York City when I gain some spare time. If that works out, I would consider becoming a full time actor.