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Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: "18 And Life" by Skid Row

Saturday night:

Show: The Sailor Show (so named for Benji's roomate, the Sailor)
Venue: a shack behind Riehle Brothers Bar in Lafayette
Audience: ~35 highly inebriated patrons
Fools: Andy, Spanke, Stu, Cowboy, Freshman, T. Rex, Ashley, Benji, and Paul
Comments: The Purdue Sailing Club hosted the Midwinters sailing...thing with other colleges to party down and celebrate...the sailing off-season? At any rate, they paid us to come out and perform some funny for what we assumed was a bar full of fun lovin' yachters, sea-hands, and other forms of lesser nautical enthusiasts (lesser when compared to pirates, which, I must say rule ass. And the seven seas.).

From the moment we arrived it felt awkward. I felt about 10 years old as the bar scene (just a bunch of collegiate types who knew what a jib or mainsail was and dressed like Greek people) drank themselves into a stupor around us. I felt oddly protective of Jenny. Andy Jedi mind tricked the owner to get us a decent spot. There wasn't much to say about the show itself, however.

We were screaming to be heard. The one microphone for Paul wasn't easily shared, and with drunken suggestions like "booze", "boobs", and "penis", there wasn't much to work with. Our normal rapier's wit was a hindrance as we struggled to find the slapstick/toilet humor common denominator to make them laugh. Finally, in desperation, we skipped five games and went straight to Irish Drinking Song, then high-tailed it out of there.

Lessons Learned: Good intelligence is absolutely critical for audiencentric improv comedy. Scout out the location, the acoustics, and try to get a feel for the crowd beforehand.
Unofficial winner(s): Jackie, Jenny, Richard, and Kevin. Our loyal Fool significant others/groupies traveled out into the wintery weather to support us, and boy howdy did we need it. They set up chairs, started the claps, the "ahhhhs", and gave actual suggestions. Thank you.


TheBestWeezEver: friday is the perfect end to my week
TheBestWeezEver: no matter how bad the weeks been you guys can always make me smile
TheBestWeezEver: unless its stock market oriented lol....you saved that scene us much as you could though, so mucho brownie points lol