Current Music: "The Sad Cafe" by The Eagles
Over the weekend
Show: Bioanalytical Systems Holiday Party performance
Venue: PMU North Ballroom
Audience: ~150 working stiffs from BAS
Fools: Paul, Scott, Andy, Ryan, Benji, Matt, Stu, Spanke, John, John, Ashley
First timers: Stu, Scott, John (Cowboy)
Retiring: Scott
Comments: The "corporate gig" was a very good show! As always, we continue to move around our lineup and try new games and setups in our shows. We've added Irish Drinking Song, A Day in the Life, and Moving People to our set, with great success. Mind you, we can't rhyme, volunteers for ADITL sometimes are geriatric mammographers with nipple markers, and both Andy and Spanke get groped when people move them. That said, Two Person Story (Titanic Expectations) and Three Things (with a minute to spare) were bookends to a fantastic show. It felt a little odd to have the audience dressed up, staring at us, split into two large groups, but we still pulled plenty laughs. Yay for spreading holiday cheer. The audience was slightly older than I expected, and I blanked out on Chain Murder Mystery (though, somehow we got 2 of 3!?). The general consensus was that of anybody there that was willing to laugh enjoyed the show.
Kathy (the brave volunteer) said to Andy:
"These parties have always sucked. This year it was good, thanks to you guys."
Unofficial winner: Scott "Ice Stomach" "Klaus" Parker. Scott, after just one short semester, has joined the Ship of Fools, and now sadly is leaving for a job in Chicago. He will be missed not only for his laughter, comedy, and suggestions...but also his programming skills.
Side notes:
*We got paid some nice money for the corporate gig. We're still working on getting new shirts with less fade-action.
*Friday night improv (9th) and the BAS show (10th) marks the end of '05 improv. We will return back next semester when Wes comes back from Texas. YAY!
*I've been dabbling in away message poetry lately (I did "haiku" Story Story Die a few weeks back at improv partially because of this):
A corporate gig
rolling in the Benjamins
Ship of Fools get paid
we do it for art
(not money) because selling
out takes a contract
a special party
Bio-Analytical
Systems holiday
*I made one of my best jokes ever at the show:
185 chemists walk into a bar.
They all sit down, start talking and drinking, having a good time, and one of them orders the finest, most expensive liquor. The barkeep comes over and fills the chemist's glass. The chemist, quite distraught, politely asks the barkeep to completely fill his glass. The barkeep, confused, says "I did fill the glass, as you can see..." and the chemist said "no, you have to read from the bottom of the meniscus!"
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