That's right, it is time. Be afraid, be very afraid. Trish, Nick, Rob, Pete, and myself are going to meet tomorrow night to discuss how to kill everyone else in Season 2 of Improv Thunderdome.

The talent on this team is downright scary, but, we learned from Season 1 that getting a strong audience to back you up is key as well.

We are definitely going to be doing some type of longform, but with only 25-30 minutes of stage time, it will be hard to pull of something slow and patient.

We will have to come out fast and hard, with our sternums a blazing!

Tuesday Night

IA had a strange rehearsal last night. There was a lot of low energy in the room. That sucks for a rehearsal right before a show. Of course, no matter what, we will have fun on Saturday, but it still makes you rethink things when you have a rehearsal like this right before a show.

Tommy is out of town, but I am putting the finishing touches on another video. I hope to have it up sometime next week. I will keep you posted.

Lately in my DVD I have been watching Saturday Night Live Season 1, Flight of the Conchords Season 1, and Arrested Development Season 1. Comedy gold if you ask me.

Comedy City

Missed my Comedy City show this weekend and I may not be able to do any shows in June. There is just to much going on right now and I don't feel bad about it at all. The shows are not challenging, the club is in some weird waiting period to see if it even remains a club anymore, and there are way to many other exciting improv happenings right now.

In other news, I have been watching a lot of sketch shows lately. One that is really tickling my funny bone is Human Giant, which stars some studs from the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater in NY. On top of that, they all blog as well, and their blogs are a really fun read.

Rob
Aziz
Paul

Tuesday IA Rehearsal

Another solid rehearsal. It has been 4 months since we have dedicated some rehearsal time to longform improv and it is still paying off. We are really coming together as a team more and more each week, it helps that we are all motivated improv nerds too though. We gained a great member in Ryan Seymore last night as well. He started playing with us and it felt as if he had been with us for more than just one night, that is for sure. He is a very experienced player and I can't wait to do some more improv with him for however long this crazy roller coaster keeps going.

It has been a long time since I have talked about my improv schedule. Last year, I quit CounterClockwiseComedy and joined Roving Imp, Comedy City, and started doing videos. Now I am just in Improv-Abilities, an occasional Comedy City show, and still doing the videos. Between rehearsal and my internship, I am still not going to be able to add anything at the moment, besides Improv Thunderdome, and even that is going to be tough.

I think I will wait till after the festival to see what is going on in the community before I decide to do more. In all reality, I will most likely be a part of the High School Improv League coming back and that will definitely take up a lot of my time.

I am glad the community is growing though. Hopefully there will be more coaches, directors, and new players in the future.

Improv Fight Club

The return of improv fight club was necessary. Thanks to John for holding it at Roving Imp. I can't complain about driving out there for this, when it is only once a month, so no one else should either. We can always carpool.

What I love about fight club, is that there is no critiquing work. In fact, we don't talk about what happened at all. It is just a place to play, experiment, work out the kinks if you will. I love it, and wish more people took advantage of the free playtime. No matter what, it helps just to play with other people. I know I learned a few things last night just from watching others play.

One Great Weekend

Friday morning, I woke up like a kid at Christmas. I was very excited for the evening of shows ahead. I was unable to play in the first show IA had during First Fridays, but this time, I was definitely playing. We got to share the stage with 4 fantastic performers in Megan Mercer, Jenny Roser, Ed Doris, and Jared Brustad, all of The Trip Fives.

It was 5 hours of fun. I hope the audience enjoyed it, I know I did. I have to admit that when I watch The Trip Fives play, it is like watching the pro's out of Chicago do it, so to play with them feels like a privilege.

Saturday: IA had a private show for 60 High School choir girls from Minnesota. Didn't really know what to expect, but luckily we had a great cast and we put on a great show. The kids loved it, and more importantly, the adult chaperone's loved it.

A great weekend of improv capped off by the Chicago Improv Festival Schedule coming out. It's great to see Improv-Abilities name with all of those famous people.

I'm so excited

Tonight is going to be a lot of fun. Improv-Abilities is performing with The Trip Fives. Talk about two great improv groups. All for a very low price, and not just for an hour, more like 5 hours. We are going to be doing short form and long form all night. It should be great fun. Come on down to Paddy O' Quigleys in the crossroads anytime tonight and check it out.

Oh, and here is the new TommyandKeith video. It was very easy to shoot and easy to edit, but still a funny idea. I think we pulled it off pretty well. We have another one that is going to take some time to edit, so feel free to go back and watch some of our old stuff. Thanks.