Welcome to a special BYOI! Tonight is Oscar Van Puddings’ last show for a while. How long that while lasts… no one knows. Tonight in addition to Oscar we have John, Adam, Jimmy, Mike, and Beth.

F. A. M. - Kelley - This is her last BYOI show cause she is moving to TX, her most profound moment to date is buying her strappy wedge shoes, Fell out of her friend Tillys’ car in NY, Tilly painted her face and part of her back, “more pudding”, going to school for library science, she is going to be so strict that she will bring a knife to work to make sure folk follow the library rules, has always wanted to date herself, leaves us with the advice of ‘Don’t eat yellow snow… or brown snow for that matter’

FAMily Six Pack - Buying shoes, Face Painting, library - You made me look like a chick… yea but you’re hot, if you wanna check out some fun go ahead and check out some fun, “MORE PUDDING”, where did you get these… next door, they smell like heaven, I was wondering why I woke up with boobs, you’re both named Alfrid E. Neuman?, I’m gonna paint her face to look like a man, you can’t paint Chuck Noris’ face on anybody, I’m a man I can do my own thing.

Questions - ‘Potato Skins’ - why must you talk about things I don’t understand, “Why isn’t there more Pudding”, How many guys are walking around with plastic fangs, why is she always here in our trailer, what makes you think I’m selling something other then rides, aren’t all vegans crazy, have you tried the holy water, “MORE PUDDING” Who wants Ice Cream.

Press Conference - Marry Poppins - Blew up the moon - did you do this cause of your lactose intolerance?, did you get the idea from a Martian named Marvin by chance, was it full when you did it, Was this Disney sanctioned.

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, and The Pudding - Why do men suck? - in their genes, haven’t had enough to drink, inharently they are Hoovers, ‘we’ don’t just suck… we suck the best - Get brother to move out - Act like treating them well, make a trail of MCR and Monster going out and once he is out… lock the door, put him in trash compactor, tell dad he is making your life a living hell - how to get pig and sheep puppets to stop fighting - see a shrink, eat lamb chops and baccon in front of them, create dictatorship to dominte them, toss them in dryer - how to potty train my son - ask any other parrent since they have done it already, don’t change him for a while, put on a leash and treat like a dog, deficate in his room.

Gaucamole - Bees on my wall - ‘grab something from this bucket on my head’, Cinderella said this doen’t fit, this is frogger for toads, put it on your sandwich or your tushie, everyone starting smoking gaucamole.

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Yes and that’s how it’s done - Kawanza - MORE PUDDING - I’m a mongrul… is there a holiday for me, it’s a hand print of a chinese dog… lession… there can always be more Pudding

Catch Phrase - How much is this and More Pudding - I’ve been in five lines already, am I addopted - Unicycle - How much is this… 2.50… more pudding, .. am I adopted… how much… I’ve been in 5 lines already… more pudding… who wants ice cream.
Round 2 - do I have scrooples, i swear I have a reciept - that’s a bold face lie, can you wax this - Jazz - MORE PUDDING I’m alergic to coconuts… that’s a bold face lie… MORE PUDDING… can you wax this… Stacy is my girlfriend… thats a bold face lie… MORE PUDDING

Back in PUDDING’s day - coffee - cause coffee is bad for kids - Knitting - cause men were real men and didn’t wear v-neck shirts - colored snow - good sex - back in Pudding’s day we didn’t have good sex… that was the result.

Short Cuts - Beth starts a scene carrying OVP, then tables turn and Beth ends up carrying Jimmy while OVP hops on Adam’s back. Somehow ending in a ‘chicken fight’. Adam P. and Jimmy start a scene about making dough, and OVP steps out to help mix a bowl, “LESS PUDDING!”

Revolver - chemestry - Aunt Bea - Cape - Cookie Dough - stop killing me with kindness - we should climb on the roof and I’ll push you - I broke up with you last week - MORE PUDDING - I though the teacher would be talking - momentium is created by me pushing you off the roof - Aunt Bea have a seat so I can start writing your uligy - MORE PUDDING - I’ve been wisking this for 36 hours - MORE PUDDING - see it hurt didn’t it - MORE PUDDING - Hi Mom.

Swimingly Backward Boys - Song of being best friends - I knocked it on the floor and punched him in the back of the head - we invented dare dice - we started a band and called it Hit the Deck - we changed our name to Fighting Words and tried to take over the world - Woh woh woh woh woh - I checked my watch and four years went by - Woh woh woh woh woh - sorry ladies we both have girlfriends - Woh woh woh woh woh.

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Hello there and welcome to the blog for the great improv show, BYOI. Tonight was a great night filled with many laughs, and even a few tears. Adam popped out of no-where to start this night off with a bang by giving us the great RESPECT The Spot speech. Our cast tonight included Jimmy, Beth, Jon, Ben, Adam and Oscar.

Ben warmed us all up by having the audience shout out some rando suggestions, like their name, pets name, middle name of our third president, favorite song to wake up to, favorite childhood toy. Then after getting the audience to stand up, he wants to play Hurricane, Hurrican’t, which involved waving your hands in the wair and leaning based on what level this hurricane blew.

Our FAM tonight was Jenn, whom best describes herself as Amazing and Honest. She also doesn’t know any names of the Backstreet Boys. She is a teacher, and the craziest school thing that happened was when she was pregnant, one of her ‘kids’ poked her tummy. On a side note, she is trying to teach her friend to walk sexy in order to try and get her a man. She has two little ones, one 7, and the other only 8 months. Her hubby, and father of her two kids, was a stalker of her at her church. Her 7 year old was Google’ing ‘how to be a good kisser’.

The cast showed off some great improv skills by playing Six Pack in the me of  our FAM, Jenn. Beth & Oscar = school / Adam & Ben = church / Jimmy & Jon = walking sexy. Jimmy tells Jon he’s already sexy, but needs to work on his walk, so he does the strangest prance ever. Beth claps in on the line, “It’s like I’m on fire!” and Oscar plays the teacher and says, “If you don’t cut this out you might be.” Beth just rambles like a crazy school girl for a good 30 seconds, so Ben claps in and sums it all up in about 3 seconds, making the audience bust out laughing.

Questions - Jimmy starts out a scene with an audience member and they really shoot it back to each other to make a good run. “Would you believe I’m a troll?” “Aren’t you suppose to be under a bridge?” / Oscar steps out and begins a ‘Nerd-Off’. Ali steps out and tries her might against the great question man, Jimmy in a scene @ Wal-Mart, but is short lived. Beth then steps up for the challenge and they create a hilarious scene involving Golden Snake Cannabis, to finally taken down the great Jimmy. An audience member steps out to play with Beth, “Have you scene my mom?” “What time is it?”.  Ben replaces the audience member and plays a scene involving babies dressed as goats.

Press Conference - Oscar, Beth, and an audience member interview Jimmy, as Barney the dinosaur, whom invented the pogo stick. Great question Oscar, “So, how many people have been inside of you?” Crazy question from Beth, “Have you been sued a lot from this product? I mean a little kid would be like, ‘Oohhh Jesus was on one of these once.’ So have that happened to you yet?

Good, Bad, Ugly - Jon is good advice, Bryan is bad, and Ben is ugly. A member of the audience wants advice on whether or not to eat the other half of a second burrito. Jon’s advice was if you are hungry, yes, eat it. Bryan’s advice, is be as masculine as possible when you eat it. Ben, “As a half eaten burrito on the stage, you can suck my ca-hones!” When dealing with a “Negative Nancy!” Jon cake or half eaten burrito. Bryan, look at other people’s sadness. Ben, Hey, you could be wrapped in tin foil, thrown in the oven, get over it.

1. Guacamole - Oscar and Beth sing a song, while Adam K. Adam P. and Jimmy mime it out for us. This song is all about monkey. Captain Hook, albino monkeys,  Santa Claus, drunken fights, dirty draws for X-mas presents, and finger traps are about as crazy as this song went. Hellz Yeah!

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Yes and, That’s How It’s Done - Jimmy and Adam use the promp “Movie” to create a scene about some crazy stuff that goes down in a crazy movie, chandler falling from a airplane and hit someone. The lesson here was all about projecting your voice so the audience can hear you.

Ben steps out and asks everyone to pull your phone out and access your last text message. August b-days stand up, then July, followed by June. Then had those standing read out loud their messages. All this was to get ready for the next game.

Catch Phrase - An audience member - I’m stolen, I’m happy. / Adam - I’m just shopping around, Thanks! Jimmy plays the glue in this scene and keeps things moving along smooth.

2nd Round - Oscar is a great scene master, but he has to help his scene brothers, Jon - What time will you be home? Zoinks! / An audience member - They can do that? So much sweat!

Back In My Day - We didn’t have… Exit Signs - I had to get ‘Entrance Only’ tattoo’ed on my @$$. / Plungers - We had ropes and pully’s to climb up walls. / Rat Poison - So cigarettes were a little more healthy. / Gum - My teeth just rattled around in my mouth like a rain stick. / Wallet - We just had bags with dollar signs on them. / Trees - We only has twos and fours. / Twilight - We had morning and night. / Church - God just spoke to ya.

Short Cutz - Beth and Jon start a scene having a marriage argument, then involve their kids who work at an anvil factory. Meanwhile, at the anvil factory, Ben is the boss, and turns the line of anvil checkers into a xylophone line. Oscar got attacked by his laundry, so now that he is afraid of clothes, Adam and Jimmy now do his laundry for him. Ben and an audience member create a scene involving beers and multiple fridges while being roommates, Jimmy and Adam keep coming in and stealing beers.

Revolver - Ben and Ali = Forgivness Day. “How did you know?” “With my castanets.” “OK!” / Ben and Randy = Domesticated Platypus. They fight over what a platypus eats either coco-puffs or duck. / Randy and Oscar = Pretend adopted. “The expiration date on this is really over due, and by the way, you’re adopted.” “These tator tots taste soo much better now that you know you’re adopted.” / Oscar and Beth =  Conductor and Musician. “Wait, Timpani is an instrument? I thought it was just a guy with a lisp.” / Beth and Ali = Lucky. “So you are eating my cereal, and you don’t even like it?”

Guacamole - Cast Only all about Gin and Tonic. Jon and Ben mimed this out. Sonic, not drinking, taking a bath in a sink, Jimmy as a mom, Adam as a drunk dad, New Jerseoily!

8pm tomorrow,  Thursday, is our last show at Fire House Theater.

Look for BYOI @ Improv Boston Sept. 12th @ 7:30, check us out!!!

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Welcome to the BYOI blog! Tonight we have Daniel, Adam, John, Beth, Jimmy, and Ken.

Tonight’s cast: Daniel, Jon, Beth, Adam, Jimmy, and an auditioner, Randy. We were joined by some of our other auditioners: Brian, Adam, Ali, Mike and Derek.

Our featured audience member was Kelly. She is a novelist from East Providence entering URI this fall. She told us about her friends, one who is loud and another who wants to be veterinarian, her brother John (a regular at BYOI and friend of the cast), her mom, Maggie who likes to judge people, and her lying dad. In the scene, an imaginary snake died, much fighting ensued between Jon, playing Kelly and Beth, playing Kelly’s brother John, and lots of ridiculous lies from Randy AKA Dad.

The next game was 60:30:10 and Jon, Jimmy, Adam, Adam, and Randy performed a very animated and physical scene in which….it seems as though Jon died? In the next scene, with Jon, Beth, and Brian, there was a lot of screaming and stabbing and eating of stomachs?

Next up was Party Quirks. Daniel was a calculator, Ali was a Jehova’s Witness, and Jimmy was a pantry. Randy did an excellent job guessing and it was quite the strange gathering.

Meanwhile: The cast played Meanwhile and I let more people in through the door so I have no idea what happened in the game. But I did hear lots of laughs… Â

Hoe Down: about scorpions and Captain Hook.

After the break:

Grand Theft Auto: Passengers in a car got attacked crazy Priuses, giant praying mantises, Darth Vader impersonaters, overpaid crossing guards, car insurance salesmen from the ’50s, and modern day dinosaurs.

8-Pack involved scenes about spraying Axe to get lucky on the street, Super Power Lottery, Halloween resolutions, weapons, couple arguments, and tapping that. A great line from Mike: “Sounds like a drink, doesn’t it? Flaming Rickhaw?” - Mike.

Back in My Day excellent one-liners: “We didn’t have coffee grounds, we just dipped a Colombian in hot water,” “We didn’t have roomates. You had to call Steve “your friend Steve”,” “We didn’t have 18th birthdays, we were all at odds,” “We didn’t have Rocko’s Modern Life, all the Australians were still convicts,” “We didn’t have sleep, and that’s why we didn’t have 18th birthdays,” “We didn’t have sleep…made wet dreams really weird,” “We didn’t have tricycles, we had bicycles, cuz if you had a tricycle you were a p#$$%!”.

Say It Again: a great scene with Jimmy and Adam P. entailed the following great lines: “I threw a little bacon grease in there because when it dries up it hurts like a mother” and  “Fortunately I have this horse that I made out of shirts”. The scene with Jon, Adam, and Oscar involved…who knows but Adam K. had a great line alteration: “Blueberry, you’re allergic. DING Boisonberry, you’re a poisoned”.

Shortcut: a scene about Brazilians at a barber shop, couples therapy interrupted by inopportune haircuts, Sweeney Todd, stabbing disobedient boys, Bobo the monkey, chocolate gold coins, peeping toms, failing tests, and Jordan Dupre.

The last game was another Hoe Down and the song was about wedgies.

Great show, everyone and thanks to our very supportive audience members!

Welcome to another installment of the BYOI blog on a very creepy Friday the thirteenth! Tonight we have Daniel, Adam, Beth, and Oscar. Tonight we also have Mike and Ali auditioning.

F. A. M. - Mike C - Gamer, his best day was going to a bowling tournament which he did not win but did bowl a 277 and for those who don’t know a perfect game is 300, bowls with Josh who loves to drink, works at Wendy’s, always yelled at by his general and district managers, Favorite movie is Princess Bride and fav character is the Dread Pirate Roberts

Day in the Life - WHAT ARE YOU SITTING FOR, I think today… you’re out of the guild, I can’t watch, it shouldn’t have been there lady, We do everything together… except for showering, As you wish, I’m just getting Sshhtarted.

Story Story Die - Gingerbread Kittens - Oscar is the first to die by ‘very tiny piranhas’, Mike is the next to die by ‘having a piano drop on him’, Daniel dies by ‘Beheading’, Ali dies by ‘limbo stick to the chest’, Beth dies being ’strangled by Martha Stewart’, Adam was killed by ‘ceiling fan’

Freeze Tag - Science - If you see too many moths then there is too much acid in it, I wanted to see if the Han Solo thing worked, Beth gives Daniel a tracheotomy, just get this out of my neckoooooohhhhhh, OWWW who does that?, No Adam West… you will never be Batman again… get off the building, Don’t get me started on Glinda, I can speak 3 languages… none of them are real… I made them up, Pablo… vroom vroom.

Pillars - Republicans - He’s not even a proper Kennedy… doesn’t even have his name on the ‘Wendy’s’, ’sexy’ That’s right he’s bringing it back, This reminds me of ‘the time I had sex with my own brain’

Greatest Hits - body building - Beth sings a song about getting dumped by a body builder who ‘found him another’, Daniel sings about ‘mac and cheese’ in a heavy metal style, ‘Mamma sing me a good one’ is about being dropped by her mamma as a baby, “come on people you gotta clap…. in rhythm”

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What are you Doing? - F.S. - Fleeing Submarines / Freaking Silently / Fun Squatting / Feeling Snazzy / Flashing Sasquatches / Freebee Stealing / M.G. - Marrying Goldfish / Mindlessly Godding / Mashing Guinness / Mocking Grandma / D.R.P. - Drastically Reorganizing Popouses / Dangling Rabit Pandas / Drooling Rotten Pineapples / Dry Railing Porcupines.

Marriage Counselor - one is the others agent, the other is afraid of clothes, together they are constantly trying to light each other on fire - yea but they wouldn’t let me do a nude scene, HA HA HA HE WISHES, is this denim crawling up my back and trying to choke me, polyester is trying to kill me, Fashion is terrifying

Worlds Worst - Board Game - this die only has one side… it’s a mobius strip, Bowler - I scored a 277… those bumpers are awesome, Princess Bride - As you… Whatever, Psych - What I think your telling me is that you want to bang your mother, Fast Food - I have to go to the bathroom BEFORE I eat it, push up bra - Well there up but I can’t see sh**

Revolver - Pantene Pro-V, Money, The love of a woman, Pony - Daddy loved me plenty, I wash my hands when I have to then I go back to massaging you, This is a flexy donkey, You’re a very hairy man… makes you fluffy, I find good things… so far strike one, I hired people to chase you… there’s your pac-man game

Greatest Hits - A song about cooking for midgets in a hip hop style - appitite for pine scented candles, going to Wendy’s, playing Dominion, then my mini-me is gonna wait on you cause he’s your size, Midget serial killer?, you know what they want… Happy Meals, I don’t go and bowl with them… I drink instead

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Tonight’s cast included: John Ring (yay!), Ben, Jon Audette, Oscar, and 2 of our auditioners: Marina and Brian.

Tonight’s FAM: Chris. He works in the Entertainment Dept. of Canobie Lake Park, plays video games after work, and told us about some of his friends/coworkers: Stacy-his crazy boss, Tyler-gay, Tim-intimidating, Brian-manwhore, Ken-douchebag. Great lines from the FAM scene: “Hey, Dad, my fun time meter is going down” and “What do ya think a backup dancer dresses like?!”.

Story, Story, Die: the first participant to die, an audience member, was trampled by a children’s chorus, the second killed by custard, our third pushed to death, John Ring drank molten lava, Brian shot himself, Ben dies in a sexy pose, Oscar dies of regret, and Jon Audette was left to finish the story, with a trip to the sun, where we all would die. A great image to let you imagine their story: “a sexy vampire in outerspace wearing a g-string”.

Freeze Tag keepers: “I don’t have fallopian tubes on me right now…but I will” -Jon Audette; and “It’s just a pretend box. What now, bitch?!” - John Ring.

Brian played guitar for a funk album. John Ring sang a song called “Smelly funk”. Marina sang as Cher. Randy sang an operatic funk about epileptic seizures and the whole crew, including Jon Audette, sang a song about phone calls and operators. Brian concluded with: “Chicken brings home the funk” and a funky chicken dance, of course.

After the break, we played What Are You Doing? Oscar wished he was naked in a river full of canaries, an audience member had to act out a rhinoceros birth, Ben fed Sun Chips to a polar bear, an audience member “milked it for all it was worth,” Brian danced down Sunset Blvd., Jon debated which side of the gay marriage issue to be on, and Oscar stole candy from a giant baby with his reoccurring Bugs Bunny voice “Hewoh baby”.

Marriage Counselor: Ben’s face would melt every time audience member Liz said “honey,” Liz was Winnie the Pooh, and their issue was that they dutch oven each other.

In World’s Worst: we saw Heroine Harry “make sure you use a clean one,” back-pay collecting manwhores, “Mario Does His Taxes” videogame, dutch oven breakfast, cereal-less cereal boxes, Joan Crawford as the worst person to share a margarita with, and some world’s worst superheroes: Asshole Man,  Queef Man, Cock Blocker, Tax Man, Jazz Hands Girl, Taint Man, and lots of dutch oven jokes.

Revolver: Marina painted our FAM Chris’s head blue and then peach with permanent paint, Dan and Chris cut class to drink Guinness and sleep, Marina and auditioner Mike had a domestic dispute over bills, and Mike and Dan danced.

Our last game: Multiple songs about creepers and bananas. Quotables: “Touching was fun back in the ’60s cause it was all about love then”-Brian, and “my family died and you’re worried about a f*cking banana” - Oscar.

Thanks for another fun show and great job to our auditioners, Marina and Brian.

Hey there and welcome to the blog for the great BYOI show. Tonight was a fun night.  Our cast tonight included, but wasn’t limited to, Daniel, Adam, Oscar and Ken. We also had some special guest cast members, Derek and Adam whom are part of our “call-back special”. So Daniel got the show started off with a bang telling everyone his RESPECT The Spot speech.

Ken, Oscar and Daniel warmed up us all by playing a game. This game consisted of having the audience “lap-clap” a simple beat and making them shout out some random phrases to the beat.

Our FAM tonight was Sara A. She has been to our show many times before, and is almost at the point of becoming a regular. She works at a bank, and really hates her co-worker, Kim, because Kim makes every dramatic. Her bank is not in the best of areas, so almost all her customers smell bad. Her favorite co-worker is Doug cause he’s just an overall nice guy. Sara’s friend, Kelly, came to the show with her, and describes her as spunky. Kelly also revealed to us all that Sara snorts when she laughs, and that they have made a drinking game out of it. Her mother, Lillyum, loves to yell and swear in Spanish. She has two kids, a little girl and boy. The little girl loves to wear mommy’s shoes and kick men in the shins, where-as the little boy has what she calls “Hulk rage”.

Family Dinner - Adam P. played as Sara, Ken played as Kim, Derek played as Doug, Oscar played as her mom, and Adam played as her little girl. Ken starts talking about how the genentic disease of snorting is still not cured, and that when you sneeze, parts of your brain shoots off. Oscar steps out and starts spurting out some random Spanglish. Adam K comes prancing out and starts kicking everyone in the shins. Derek decides to the chicken needs to be spiced up with “Wine-Coke” using the microwave, meanwhile Oscar is still spouting out random half Spanish and half English lines.

Sports Commentator - Adam P., Ken, and from our door staff, Beth, jumped out to mime the sport of “making lemonade”. Meanwhile Derek and a regular audience member stepped in to commentate on this exciting sport. Ken shaving with lemons, Beth loosening her wrists and decorating her booth with a table cloth, and Adam mixing lemonade and vodka. BANG! “And there’s the bell, and the competitors have begun juicing their lemons, wait some of them have begun peeling their lemons. Why? I do not know.” ” Oh no, and there’s lemon juice in the eye.” Watching that scene in super super slow-mo made this scene even that much better. Ken goes down from rat poisoned lemonade, and as Adam tries to revive him, Beth comes with the sneak lemon smothering attack. Daniel steps in to interview the winner, Beth who won by making pink lemonade.

Short Cutz - Adam K. and Daniel step out to start this game off using “Boring” as their prompt. So they are sitting in the bleachers waiting for the game to start, Daniel made advocato footballs, and Marina comes and sits right on it by accident, Oops! The Adams duel off about which Adam is sitting where, and Oscars jumps out and steals Adam P.’s seat ticket, followed by Derek, then Ken, then Marina… All stealing each others ticket for the seat. Daniel starts showing his son, Randy, his new trophy room, but then Randy learns her has to share the room with his more successful brother, Bryan, then Ken steps out with Derek, as Bryan newest life-size trophy. Adam K, hires Oscar and pays him part of his salary to do his work for him, then Daniel, his daughter steps out thanking his mom for allowing him to borrow his high-heels. Adam is then puzzled at how Daniel got to his work, but Ken steps out as Dad and says that he is paying Daniel part of his salary to drive him around.

Greatest Hits - Derek mans the keyboard with Ali to tell us all about the newest CD out on the market. 10 songs on 9 CD’s all about the band, Pediatrits. Adam K., Daniel, Oscar, and an audience member stepped up to sing these songs for us.

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To start this second half off Adam P., Adam K., Derek and Oscar jump out and sit in groups of two having separate conversation by taking turns for each group and the lesson they were conveying was to taking turns in each group. And that’s what we like to call Yes And That’s How It’s Done!

Try That On For Size - I’m Knitting, I’m sowing my child’s face back together, I’m making a mo-hawk. I’m a bunny, I love my pogo stick. I’m unzipping a zipper, I’m flipping the switch that ends the world, I’m ripping the embryological code out of a woman. I’m fishing, I’m reeling in some nice tail, this is my first time eating spaghetti. I’m making rainbows, I’m raising the roof, I hope it doesn’t rain, I’m patching the Ozone with my fingers. I’m taking a poop, I worked all day and i’m relaxing, I’m using a thigh-master, I’m passing my lost thumb.

Interrogation Line-Up - Adam P. makes a great cop. The rest of our cast, plus Marina and Bryan step up and walk out of the room while we find out that someone kicked nuns, in a strip club, with Stevie Wonder with the help of our witness, Beth. After going through the entire line, the line-up figured out what was done, however after only a couple of questionings Daniel steps forth figuring out the location. Ken, being the brains he is put all the pieces of this crazy puzzle together and admitted that he did it all.

Slogans - Criminal Minds - “Now with a plot.” “Because we couldn’t call it Law and Order.” / Space Cadet - “Because helmets are for stoners too.” “Now accepting Wookies.” / Fall River - “Bringing you new smells everyday.” / Snort - “It’s adorable.” / Used to be tires - “Now we are putting the rubber back into horses.” / Hulk Hogan - “Ever wanna see what your grandfather looked like on steroids?” / Vodka - “Because beer doesn’t get it done fast enough.” “Lets face it… your b*tch is just ugly.”

Pillars - Derek, Ken and Ali play this game through while using Daniel and a regular audience member for suggestions. Ken took on the role of Walter Cronkite and Ali as Selene Dion, while Derek is the director of a horror movie. University of Antarctica Tech, and lamb-skin condoms were just a couple of the suggestions

2nd round - Jessi, one of our door girls, and a regular audience member step in as our pillars to be used by both Adams and Oscar. Adam K ate a caterpillar at a cheese factory where we learned that caterpillars are used to help make cheese taste like mustard or vodka on “whip-em-out-Wednesday”.

Greatest Hits - All cast play this game through all about the band Badminton Stars. Derek manned the keyboard, while Adam K., Adam P., Daniel, Oscar and Ken sang to us all.

Don’t forget to come see us either Wednesday 9pm or Friday 11pm @ The Spot, or Thursday 8pm in Newport @ The Firehouse Theater, or even on all three nights.

Very special congrats goes out to Adam P. and Derek for stepping up and playing some great roles with our cast tonight. Best of luck goes out to them and the other call-back auditioners!!!

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2 years ago, Bring Your Own Improv began. Tonight was our first ever sold out show (75 audience members!)  and we even had to turn away 30 or so people. The cast: Ben, Beth, Jon, Jimmy, Oscar and Daniel. Ben started us off with some warm up exercises, imitating sleek panthers, robo giraffes, cute puppies, and fierce peacocks, platapuses (sp?), trees, etc.

Our featured audience member was Maddy Kelly. She is a high school student from San Francisco who acts and travels. She told us about a few of her friends, Carlene who likes biology and Cole who wears V-neck shirts. She also told us about her sister who dances and she fights with a lot, and her ladies-man 10 year old brother.  Maddy seemed very pleased with our cast’s interpretation of her family and friends because Daniel was constantly “ding”ing.

The next game was Sports Commentators. Some notable quotes: “Owen Wilson is in the cat box,” “wrestling kitty back style,” “Bill Cosby is now a cat,” and “that’s the mating spray”.

Short Cutz was the next game.  The whole cast, along with an audience member and three of our auditioners, Marina, Adam and Ali, played. Some lines you’re not likely to hear anywhere else: “Dick Cheney’s always on fire,” “How do you even get a whole bucket of Americans?” and “I’ve known you for 10 years and you never told me your name was Jackie Chan?!”.

In Beastie Rap, both teams busted some excellent rhymes, but the team with Beth, Jimmy, two of the auditioners and an audience member won.

After the break, we played “Try That On for Size”. Notables: “I’m Pamela Anderson/Mutton chops!/White rastafarian/Can’t get this damned V-neck on/I’m a PC, go f*ck yourself/OMG Optimus Prime/I’m a super slow upright clam/My peanut butter brings all the boys to the yard…try that on for size”.

Next was Interrogation lineup. The crime was fusing an ostrich and a rhinoceros together in the mall with Burt Reynolds. Beth figured out the crime, Mike got the location and Jon figured out the Burt Reynolds part with help from Daniel and our audience member.

In Pillars, Daniel and Jimmy worked with Beth and a few audience members to act out a scene. In sum: Team Ramrod vs. Team Ostrasaurus.

We came up with some excellent new slogans in our game Slogans: “Theatre: With enough training, anyone can be pretentious,” “Friends: ‘Cause your family hates you,” “Friends: Now with more benefits,” “Sisters: Now wit more benefits,” “High school: Because your parents don’t make fun of you enough,” “Love: Yeah right,” “Love: It can be found in the palm of your hand,” “Tennis: Just two men hittin balls,” and “Tennis: Cause it’s all your fault”.

Our last game, 6 Pack, featured scenes about gnomes, imaginary friends/little brothers, grappling hooks, and other weird shenanigans. Some great weird lines: “People gnomes say, ‘hey, I’ve got money to burn. And I’m kind of an asshole,” “The next door neighbors, they won’t notice if we take a baby. They’re really negligent parents,” and “I’m the Joker…Apparently you learned a thing or two, [pulls gun] but apparently you haven’t”.

Thanks to all of our audience members! We had a lot of fun and are very grateful for all the fun we’ve had these last 2 years!

Welcome to our last show of July! We have an AWESOME show for your improv enjoyment tonight! We have Daniel, Adam, Beth,Jimmy, Ken, and Oscar!

F. A. M. - Taylor! - Is in a theater group, they had their final performance today. Says the breathing excersizes are so boring that she fell asleep during it once. Woke up at 5am but can’t remember if she actually went to sleep last night. Had to coat herself in purple body paint for her performance. Grandma was a drama teacher, who said that she liked how a costar’s hair framed her face… thanks Grandma. Her performance was about ‘tribal mummies’.

F. A. M. Day in the Life - Pancakes… AHHHhhh, I wanted to butter your muffin, I can’t believe you’re here… I love you daughter, thanks Grandma, THEY HAVE PANCAKES, but then my hair won’t frame my face and my Grandma’s gonna be mad, why did we dye that glue purple?, More purple, *Adam ended the game with an awesome rap about unicorns*

Questions - Have you been listening to wikipedia for directions again, The spaceship… how did you do it *ding*, Are these hotdogs Kosher, Why are you pretending you’re Jewish, Isn’t Jewish a religion?, Can I still have your shirt, Are my hands on fire, will you go see a therapist with me?

Good Cop / Bad Cop - Who? - William Shakespear - What? - eating gum from under desks - Where? - Dunk Tank - Was it a freshie or was it old and crusty, How come you dressed so funny… with a tutu around your neck, here’s a quill… does that make you feel better?

Meanwhile - Do not place the soldering iron on your hand, it’s the ski ambulance, some goose hooked me up with some awesome stuff, ha ha ha too slow, can I snort it?, don’t worry about this giant hat… there’s nothing recording under it, this is Gay communist camp, Daddy I found your walnut

Irish Drinking Song - A song about being adopted by a unicorn - I loved it and was laughing so hard I couldn’t even get any quotes for the blog!

***INTERMISSION***

Rope - “What did you do to my guitar?” “I’m serving it up to your father right now for cheating on me.” / “I finally got my drivers license.” “I finally got my hoola-hooping license.” / “Where’s fluffy?” “There, there, and there.”

Eight Pack - Oscar and an audience member have “Sponge”. Adam and another audience member have “Name”. Jimmy and Callback Bryan have “Raven”. Beth and yet another audience member have “Sushi”. So we learned that Jimmy makes a great mascot couch, Oscar gets OCD about washing his hands when a sponge gets involved, Adam makes a bad date because he breaks things and forgets his date’s name, and sushi sandwiches makes Beth want to throw up when thinking about it.

Famous Last Words - Evil Kinevel - “I think I can, I think I can.” “Just one more short bus.” / Mummy - “Ummmhh hhummmp ummmmm.” “Hey that’s not toilet paper.” / Smart Cars - “Two plus two is five!” / Rain - “Swear to God, if I turn into men!” / Mickey Mouse - “Oooooo cheese.”

Pavlovian Response - Daniel slaps the floor whenever he hears a pronoun, an audience member has to do “Spirit Fingers” and make a whirly sound when she hears the word “And”, and Ken has to break dance when someone turns their back to him. Ken took on the role of the Ring Leader in this crazy toaster circus, meanwhile Daniel took it upon himself to become Bobo, while out audience member stayed mostly quiet but became Bobo’s master in the long run.

Say It Again - Adam, Oscar, and a returning audience member step up to play this hilarious game. Using a “stuffed snowman” as their prompt for this scene. First time ever we got to see a “DING!” to change someone’s accent, went from hillbilly, to Mexican, to ending on a nut-case, nice job Oscar. “Yes!” “DING!” “No!” “DING!” “I wanna kiss you.”

Irish Drinking Song - All six cast members stepped up to sing this one all about “window washers”. Peeping tom’s, not wearing pants, learning to tie shoes, and still showing his @$$ were just some of the things that popped out there.

Don’t forget about our 2 year show on this upcoming Wednesday, Aug 4th!

AND SCENE!!!!

Hello there and welcome once again to this blog for the great BYOI show. Our cast tonight’s cast included Daniel, Oscar, Jon, Ben, Adam and Jimmy.

Jimmy warmed us all up by having groups of the audience scream out lots of random things, i.e. favorite movie, number, friend. Wow this audience is hopping tonight.

Our FAM tonight was Rebecca, and she’s from New York. She’s a student and her favorite breakfast is bacon with a side of bacon. She has many friends, so many that she can’t be put on the spot to name them all. She plays lacross, ski, but prefers snowboarding on a mountain.

Day in the Life of Rebecca - Jimmy starts as Rebecca and uses Adam, as her Closet Butler, to help dress her in her new bacon outfit. Great quote there Adam, “Make sure you poop before noon or else that bacon can get backed up.” Ben then steps in as his “Robo-Locker”, as Daniel plays the angry friend that throws things. And Oscar steps in as the great Science teacher and Jon as the lacross coach.

Questions - Few audience members step up and try to play against Daniel, and he just leaves them stumped into only saying statements. Jon steps up and gives it a great run, but fudges his words just enough. Jimmy steps into play and gives Dan a run for his ?’s, then Dan dings himself out for starting a question with a statement. Jimmy, Oscar and an audience member step up to play as a 3-some, but flop quickly, to then turn around and play with a 4-some of all guys about kissing each other two lines in, “DING!”, then starting just a 3 guy all cast play out, and yells “FREEZE!” calls the next two ladies in the line to come and play.

Good Cop, Bad Cop - Oscar was a bad boy, shame on him for forgetting what it was, where it was, and who he did this with. Ben and callback Adam are here to help him try and remember that he wore miss-matched socks, in an airplane bathroom, with Snuffleupagus. “It’s a double felony.” “A ‘delony’.” Oscar must be some kinda of guessing god, he cleared all three facts of his horrendious crime.

Meanwhile - Oscar and Jimmy start the scene yelling at each other. Jon, callback Mike, and an audience member act out a scene inside a comic book. Daniel and Adam create a crazy scene at Walmart, quickly switched to Jon, Oscar and Jimmy playing with drugs.  Ben, Daniel, callback Cam, and an audience member working at a factory. Adam, Jon, and Jimmy play out a scene at a bank, and it appears Jimmy is about to rob the bank. “Cut to the place where they put fudge into boxes.” To quote Oscar, “So basically we’re fudge packers.”

Irish Drinking Song - Adam, CB Adam, Jon and Jimmy sang us a song all about unicorns.

***INTERMISSION***

Jimmy and Adam start the second half off with a quick lesson using “hampster ball” as the suggestion. They walked around the stage, and pretended to chase little fuzzy animals which the lesson they were extending to the audience was to use the stage by walking around and using fake props.

Rope - “Alaska is sinking!” “That’s why I’m fixing it.” / “I’m gonna clean your windows.” “Ohh thank God cause I can’t see sh*t.” / “It’s raining cats and dogs out there.” “Yeah and it looks soo good in my hair though.”

Eight Pack - Daniel and CB Ali have “painting studio”, Ben and an audience member have “older brother”, Adam and CB Cam have “Jewish Holidays”, Jon and former FAM Evan have “Rabbit”.

Famous Last Words of… - Bacon - “Just cremate me and put me on everything.” / A Mountain - “Move me, I dare ya.” “On my tombstone I want it to say ‘Ever rest.’ ” / New York - “I just wish that people knew I was also a state.”

Pavlovian Response - Dan is Pavlo, Jimmy and CB Marina have tweeks. Every time someone asks a question, Marina has to laugh. For Jimmy, every time someone says the word “The”, he acts like a dinosaur. And finally when someone smiles, Daniel has to dance the Macarina.

Irish Drinking Song - Daniel, Oscar, Ben and Adam sing a great song about Dinosaurs.

Just a heads up, next Wednesday, Aug 4th, will be the two year mark for this great improv troupe, so mark your calendars. Also please note that this show will be “All Ages” so we ask that no alcohol be brought to that sh0w; however, food, other types of drinks, and friends are always welcome to be brought.

AND SCENE!!!