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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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A great round of auditions tonight!  Great and funny moments from Paula, Adam, Ray, Mike, Randy, Ali, Derek and Michael.  They will be at the shows this week showing off their skills, so make sure to come out and root them on!

If you were looking to audition, make sure to come out next Monday at 5pm.  Details are listed below on the blog!

Thanks and see everyone soon!

BYOI will be holding auditions on Monday July 19th & 26th at 5:00pm at The Spot on Thayer (286 Thayer St. Providence, RI)  Auditioners are expected to be on time, wear comfortable clothing they can move in and are encouraged to bring water and something to write with.  You may come to one or both nights to audition, although the more we see of you, the better.

Bring Your Own Improv is looking to increase and diversify our cast.  We are looking for improvisers that offer something different than the talent we already have.  The commitment is to two performances a week plus outside shows.  We will not only be looking for good improv skills, but how you work with the team and how you can elevate someone else’s performance.

That last part is particularly important, because in our show, it is not just important to look good yourself, but can you support an audience member as a good scene partner and make them look good.  In BYOI you must be willing to drop your ego and help raise the scene and your partner as a team.

We look forward to this year auditioners and what they can bring to the group.

Thank you,

Daniel Lee White - Owner/Producer & John Ring - Artistic Director

Hey Improv fans and fanatics! Time yet again for another installment of the BYOI blog. For tonight’s show we have Daniel, John, Adam, Jimmy, and Beth.

F. A. M. - Alicja is our FAM tonight. She is getting ready to start college, likes to make ceramics, likes the movie Titanic, Best advice she got from her sisters was ‘don’t get pregnant’, when she was younger she wanted to be an accountant, likes Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she is “team Angel”

F. A. M. Movie Critics - Alicja’s sisters brought her to the accounting office where the coffee was good, “I’m 18 now, I’m allowed to have vodka for breakfast… Mom says”, Next scene we have ceramics class where we have a student who couldn’t get into his locker and his cologne was so strong that you could smell it in the theater, next we see when she got bored in Fitchburg and decided to reinact the entire Buffy series… especially the musical episode.

Marriage Counselor - Person A is obsessed with body modifications, Person B is Salma Hayek, and together they only communicate via text. So you think you’re perfect? No… well I will be after her next movie deal.

Catch Phrase - Person A can only say “Why did I fail?”, and “I don’t want to talk about it”. Person B can only say “Easy big boy”, and “How do I turn this off?” - We see a scene in a mall where two people are plotting against a third to break up a relationship, “How do I turn this off?”, If only I knew.

Round 2 Person A can only say “Do you have a map?” and “You’re in the wrong part of town” Person B can only say “How many times do I have to tell you”, and “Make me a sandwich”. We see a scene where three people are having a picnic in the middle of a track… You dump dirt on me over and over again… You’re in the wrong part of town.

Alphabet - (breakfast at Denny’s) - Quick someone help the pancake man out of his troubles, Xerxes… hook him up with the Grand Slam, “Adam can you tell me what your favorite subject in school was?” “What’s a subject” Astronomy class… Veal Sandwiches are done, Kindly stop saying Tuna

Hoedown - (Titanic) - We have a combo of stanzas about the movie and a couple about the ship it’s self “What the **** is a Genre?

****INTERMISSION****

Yes… and that’s how it’s done - Cheese as a holiday - I was the major cheese!

What are you doing? - (initials E and K) - Electric Kiting, Everybody Kicking, Eying Koalas, Elephant Killing, Evil Knieveling, Embracing Kettle-fish, enjoying Kaleidoscopes (P and G) people grunting, patiently gazing, poking gorillas, perusing grandmas.

Revolver - (a) Pogo sticks, (b) ukulele, (c) funeral, (d) afterbirth - (c) this is such a great idea, we’re gonna rap eulogies, (d) I think it’s time… You’ve only been pregnant for a month, (b) you quit your job to play music… but I support you, (d) go ahead I got ear plugs… what… OH MY GOD!!!!

Round 2 - (a) brussel sprouts (b) camping (c) shop (d) New Kids on the Block - (a) but they taste so good. No they don’t, (b) you’ve always been good with your hands but video games don’t count (c) you said little stick people, so I grabbed the guys leg and I’m making little stick people, (d) show me mine I’ll show you yours, (a) I threw up in your dresser, (b) there was a dead woman in your trunk and you set the alarm off, (c) You keep setting the alarm off (d) I think that alarm is gonna draw attention, (a) oh my girdle alarm is going off {if you were here you would have heard a car alarm going off in time with the rotations}

Blank walks into a bar - Frowny face - What’s wrong?… Walmart laid me off - Hate - sorry we don’t serve republicans here - iceberg - says drinks on me - alcohol - walks into a bar… and only takes 12 steps

Freeze Tag - You bumped into me from behind while you were standing in front of me, You’re out…. I’m the pitcher, Suck it up… your father was in Nam, so this is how you’re gonna kill me, what do we do with vampires… Oh… cover him with diamonds, the guild doesn’t talk about watches after Friday, This isn’t a playboy shoot… we’re just gonna shove you into the wall freezer, I’m sorry Father… I see you’re busy

Hoedown take 2 - Rogain - There’s nothing worse then bald on a nice looking girley

Don’t forget Auditions July 19th and 26th at 5 pm here at The Spot on Thayer.

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Hey and welcome to another wonderful installment of the BYOI Blog. Today for your improv enjoyment we have Daniel, Oscar, Jon, Adam, Beth, Jimmy, AND YOU!

F. A. M. - Tonight our F. A. M. is Sandy!!! She is here with Evan and Luis… described as a couple of characters. Thinks Evan is sweet, Evan says she has a good heart. If she crashed, her cat, Oscar, would miss her the most. Dislikes her former boss “D” the most. Sandy and Evan like to broaden their cultural horizons by taking in a museum tour followed by a trip to the strip club.

FAMily Dinner - Prom Night - Got any condoms or purity rings?, I just squirted lube all over myself, FEED ME, I think your cat is really horny, HISSSSss, OH that is some good catnip

Story, story, die - The Pigeon of Cowville - The story starts out with Pigeons milking cows to find the existance of God, to pigeon penis envy, to going hell, playing fiddles with hermaphroditic Satan, Shopping in Old Navy in Hell. We saw deaths by crucifixion, stoning, penis envy, jello, snakes on a plane, and pulp fiction

Good Cop / Bad Cop - Stealing Rubber Bands, Al Gore, On Top of Olde Smokey - Can’t go very far… I feel drawn to you for some reason, He’s got the weight of the world on his shoulders, It was a collection… you don’t steal to recycle…, I got a title… It’s a convenient lie, It’s all smokey in here… it’s on top of my broom.

Slogans - Cats, When you want a pet that doesn’t care if you live or die - Tooth paste, Now sold in England - The World Cup, Let the World C U P - Transformers, Keeping Shia LaBeouf off the street since 2005 - Coffee, I like my coffee like I like my women… ground up and in the freeze - Windows, Emergency exit for babies - Blenders, helping yuppies blend their smoothies - toaster over, The insurance company will never figure it out.

Six Pack - Arm like a leg - Nice eyebrows - nostrils flare - I’m sorry we’ve been apart for so long, have you met Michale? You mean Michaela?!?, My son… the hairy and aggressive, it was more of an eviction, I changed it to ‘it’s complicated’, it didn’t start off dead… it was a long drive here

Beasty-Rap - Rick - Sick, lick, pick - Hill - spill, dill - Tom - bomb, rom, mom, com, pom pom

****Intermission****

Try That On For Size - vacuuming, playing shuffleboard with George Sr./playing tag, hitting ostriches in the head, trying to catch up to Jesus, playing extreme whack-a-mole/lifting weights, pushing away my feelings / playing mini golf, taking a good look at my problems before I have to deal with them, I’m pushing the Earth out of orbit / jogging in place, Richard Greer trying to stop them from putting stuff up my…

Short Cuts - You feel that?… I felt that, Move to New York… live in a closet… become actor, I found a nail gun will that work… yea just hit the new guy with it… OWWWwwww

Shop Keeper - Lindsay Lohan who won’t leave the house, weed wacker that keeps proposing marrage, Key West is full of dolphins - I’m 7 you pull, there’s too many blow-holes here, Is she a real Mean Girl

Beasty-rap 2.0 - Joe - slow, grow, row, low, crow, bow, fro, blow, pro - Haley - Baley, failed, tailey, sailey, hailey, whaley, scaly, snailey - Shmutz - buts - Al - pal, cal - Ed - bed, shed, bread, tread, fed, fred, head

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Thanks everyone

Don’t forget we have auditions coming up for new cast members on July 19th and 26th.

In addition to our usual Wednesday and Friday shows, Thursdays this July and August we will be in Newport at The Firehouse Theater at 8pm.

Hey there, and welcome to the blog for the great improv show, Bring You Own Improv.

Jimmy and Adam showed us how to make a scene using the word “Jump”

Ben had the audience yell their name, then yell the name of the person next to them. Then a game of his creation, Leano Magneto which turned into The Wave. Thanks for the warm up Ben!

Liz is our F.A.M. of the night and is from Dartmouth. Her friend who came with her, nick-named Snookie only for tonight, share a bro-mance with Liz.

Beth started the 1st game of the night by acting as Liz. Jimmy steps in the play as her identical twin, Ben plays her boss, Diane. Beth to Jimmy “You don’t understand, I dress you in your sleep so I know what I’ll look like in the clothes.”

Interrogation Line-Up - Daniel and a returning audience member give clues to the rest of the cast, Liz and her sister. Seems someone has tipped some cows, in Wonka Land, with John Wilks Booth.

Phases - Jimmy is stuck with only 2 lines, as a returning audience member. Ben however is free to say what he wants

2nd round - Daniel is limited to 2 lines as well as another returning audience member. Adam leads this scene and somehow makes this scene hilaious.

Fortunately, Unfortunately - An audience member, and Adam play this game by taking respective roles, while Jimmy and another returning audience member mime this game out.

2nd round - Ben and Oscar rock this game out as Daniel and a new audience member mime the sheet outta this.

Greatest Hits - Oscar rocked the guitar and an audience member helped tell all about “Myself”. Adam, Ben, Beth and a returning audience member sang us some great tunes. 1st up was a pop rock song “Me, Myself, and Touching” sung by Ben and Beth. “Folk Folk, I’d Like to Give That a Poke” sung by an audience member. Should have seen the look on Oscar’s face when his partner told him the next song was a polka tune, great job Adam. Rap fusion? is that even a title. the singing audience member surprised us all, followed by Beth spitting it all out there. Ben told us all the things he can sit on. But to end this half of the show, Adam rapped his big heart out. YOU GUYS ROCK!!!

**Intermission***

Rope - Beth rope herself because, “Sometimes you just have to rope yourself.” but then when she thinks she’s done great you hear from an audience member, “And sometimes you have to rope others.”

Short Cutz - Oscar and Jimmy start this scene about bouncing kittys. Adam steps in to replace Jimmy. Daniel and an audience member playing D&D. Oscar and Beth are performing exSPEARMINTs with Spearimint gum, but Ben doesn’t like it because he’s performing exPEARiments with pears.

Famous Last Words - … of a Music Video, “Youtube killed the video star!”  … of shoe salesmen “I need some more duct tape over here.” … of a cow, “Utt ohh, strawberry milk…”

Pavlovian Response - An audience member has to laugh whenever someone looks at her. Another audience member has to perform a hacking cough whenever someone asks a question. Jimmy dramatically removes a finger when someone laughs.

2nd round - Ben doesn’t like the words The or And is said. he then switches to a British third-person speaking attitude. Oscar doesn’t like proper names, he then “goes on coke”. finally if our audience member is cut off in what he was saying, he has to do jumping jacks while screaming.

Greatest Hit - Oscar on the geeetar, while Beth, Adam, Ben, and Liz sang their hearts out. Beth starts with a Myself rendition of Piano Man. Ben steps in too make us all laugh. Adam looks puzzled, but sings to tribute Oscar Van Pudding.

An “Improv Essentials” classes taught by Mr. Adam Kennedy will be right here at The Spot on Thayer Street, starting this Saturday from 1-3pm, so if you want to learn from a scene master now is your chance.  Contact Adam Kennedy here to learn more.  (This is not a BYOI class, please contact only Adam for details.)

BYOI will be performing at the Firehouse Theater in Newport this Saturday at 8:00pm an for only $10, so come and see us.

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Hey there, and welcome to the blog for the B.Y.O.I. blog, brought to you by the letter ‘B’ for Belly Dancing. Tonight we had a very special intermission act. Ms. Jamie Lee Fury’s Belly Dancing. Our Cast tonight included Ben, Beth, Adam, Jimmy, Jon, and Daniel.

Tonight started with a bang coming from Daniel. His great R.E.S.P.E.C.T. speech reached out to all those present in the room, and then some. Great job Daniel.

Jon and Ben taught us all about ‘Punking to Help, Not to Hurt’. Meaning giving traits or gifts that help add to a scene, rather than just randomizing, and leaving your scene partners stranded. Cranberry’s was the topic of choice. When someone says something, the other partner should listen and help add to the scene. And thats what we call Yes and That’s how it’s Done.

Ben warmed us up by splitting the audience into 3 groups. Group 1 was The Incredible Hulk. Group 2 was Spider-Man. And group 3 was Superman. After many times aiming back and forth, group 1 was victorious.

Our F.A.M. tonight was Tana. She is a singer, and she met one of her best friends working at the front desk of her job. She is also a nurse in training because she really likes to help people. ‘Hold on’ are her favorite words to say strictly due to how she says it. She also takes  a poll to try and find out why guys ‘like to screw virgins’.

Revolver - Adam and Jimmy - learning about virgins, Ben and Adam - ahahaha , Beth and Ben - sings and talks, Beth and Jimmy - Amsterdam.

Sport Commentator - Daniel and Beth Commentated about the sport of Brushing Your Teeth. Jimmy and an audience member helped to mime this sport out for all to see. Shooting each other with tooth-paste, water hoses, and stealing the other competitors fake teeth was just some of the great competition happening in this game tonight.

2nd round - Adam and an audience member commentated this great sports event, riding the bus. Jon and Jimmy are professional riding busers, with expert skillz.

Excuses, Excuses, Excuses - poor Beth, she had a hangover, got stuck in traffic, and her pet alligator got loose and now she is late for work at the agency for choosing high schools. Great job goes to Jimmy and the audience member that helped mime why she was late to her boss Daniel.

2nd round - Ben was late for work because the walk of shame, kid is sick, and lost his pants. Jon and Beth helped him out mime-ing out those actions so Ben could tell his boss, Adam.

Irish Drinking Song - Jimmy, Daniel, Adam, and Ben rocked this song out all about ‘The Front Desk”, “Having a Best Friend”

***INTERMISSION***

What Are You Doing? - Tickling speedos, teaching sympathy, beating mother. LOL!

Short Cutz - Slrobin Hood, aka Slum Robin Hood. He steals from the middle class and gives to the upper class just for kicks and giggles. ‘I passed 6th grade.’ ‘That means you are in the middle!’ ‘No it doesn’t, it means that I have done all that i was suppose to pass so that I could get to where I am now.’

Famous Last Words - Of; Rudolph, ‘i just realized how bad it is to be horny in the Red Light District.’ Dick Cheney, ‘Boom, Alright, you got me!’ Keyboard, ‘Ctrl+Alt+F*ck You!’ Kate Gosselin, ‘I was wondering if i could go on that show, The Bachelor?

Remake - Beth and an audience member make a great scene all about forgetting to buy some munchies. Jimmy and another audience member remade the exact same scene only using mime and subtitles. Jon and yet another audience member onces again re-created the same scene, only this time they had to do it as a biography.

With time to spare, and time to kill. the cast decides that to do another Irish drinking Song about college. Ben, Jimmy, Jon and Adam rocked this out and had the entire audience crying of laugher.

Great show tonight, and a very helpful audience tonight. Thanks once again to Ms. Jamie Lee Fury for a great intermission show. Don’t forget about Improv Boston’s Improv Marathon = 26.2 hours of improv, come see all the different groups, including our very own B.Y.O.I. Sun Apr 18th @ 8:30am.  Thanks to the group that came out from Rhode Island College!

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Hey there, and welcome to Tom’s blog for the January 20th 2010 B.Y.O.I. show! Tonight was a great show, our cast line up was the slick Adam, fabulous Beth, great John, enthusiastic Jon, peppy Jimmy, and punctual Daniel. We want to give a quick shout out to Dan, aka Oscar Van Pudding, “Hope you get well soon!” Tons of laughs and great ideas from such a great audience helped make this show amazing.

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - As usual, Daniel still cannot seem to remember how to spell that word, but always seems to end with great style.

Yes & That’s How It’s Done - Very interesting scene involving flamable Star Wars sheets, it always seems to work no matter what the scene is, I wonder why.

F.A.M. - Our FAM tonight was a new BYOI’er, Beth. She doesn’t belong to any clubs, wants to be a wedding planner, from New Jersey, loves the color pink. She also is an early bird whom is Irish, and would classify herself as the cereal Kix because she’s, “Mother approved!”

Warm Up - Jon warmed up the audience with a great train/wave game. Thanks Daniel for the random thing that pops in your head, “Things that start with the letter ‘D’!”

Meanwhile - Adam hosted this game that started off talking about buying tickets to see Pink. Meanwhile at the salon, Beth and Jon came across a problem because he only had steak knives instead of scissors. Meanwhile wishing to come to America, Adam is allowed, however John is not. Meanwhile in Spanish class, Beth was late to class with a pass and no one really knows how to speak spanish. Meanwhile at the gum factory, Jimmy’s jaw hurts and he’s losing his teeth while Adam has swallowed moth balls. Meanwhile at his Grandma’s house, Beth wants a drink from the fridge while no one gets a seat for Grandma. Meanwhile at the gym, Daniel and Jon got their excercise while Adam complained. Meanwhile at the plastic surgeon, Beth got some great work done by Dr. Jon before helping Jimmy figure out what needed fixing. Meanwhile at the tatoo parlor, Daniel’s giving out free tatoos to John so others can tell which side is his front, and Adam’s got huge boobs. Meanwhile at the mall, Jimmy doesn’t want to pay for a massage so he steals Beth’s free pass. Meanwhile at the edge of town, Jimmy and John are ballet style refusing to cross the town line while Daniel’s trying to convince them that it’s alright to cross. Now if this scene makes sense to you, you may need to seek help. No one could ever guess where this scene was going, yet everything always fell into place.

Story, Story, Die - We had Cosmo magazine, meets Steven Spielburg, meets fantasy, meets island, meets Spin magazine. Jon died a fantasy death of being on fire while sinking in a pit. Adam died a island pirate scorpian death. John died of talked himself Cosmo style.  And Jimmy DJ’d himself to the floor. Beth was the hero of this ‘movie’ and was the last woman standing.

Press Conference - Beth was Kristen Wigg who just saved the bay being interviewed by Jimmy, Daniel, and a great audience member Marina. 2nd round Jimmy is Jack Skeleton who just got a skin graft being interviewed by Adam, Beth, and Jon. Both rounds were full of great inside questions that the audience caught onto really quick. With their heads boucing off the walls trying to decifer these clues that were coming in from all directions.

Beasty Rap - Great new game, Beth, Adam, and Jon vs Jimmy, John, and Daniel in a hilarious version of the name rhyme game.  Pam to lamb, George to engourge, John to pom-poms. Yet I think team BAJ ended with the most team rhymes in the end.

Intermission!!!

What Are You Doing? - Picking four leaf clovers in the desert / breaking everything with my rubber dracula / great game with lots of laughs from the audience. So much going on that wasn’t going on it all blurred into many great rotations of the many great ideas of the BYOI cast.

The Quickest Minute - Jimmy and Jon slammed out “Beauty and the Beast” in a minute. Shame on Beast Jon blew out Candle-Stick’s flame. “Pots and pans and the pots and pans.” “My Porn! “Wow they power crunched it out in 30 secs. Dude, 10 secs how did they do pull it off? I don’t know how, all I know is they did, and it was great.

2nd round, Adam and Jimmy are BFF’s at the waterslide. Jimmy wants to go down first so he can save Adam’s life. 30 seconds piece of cake for these pros, so easy, they even did it in FIVE SECONDS!!! You guys rock!

3rd round was a little backwards, Beth is lost in New York while homeless Jon pukes all over the place all in 10 seconds. Within 30 seconds Jimmy and Adam help Jon drink his free shots. Time for the minute scene puke, puke, puke!

Famous Last Words - Circus Clown “We can fit one more in this car, I’m sure of it.” / Tattoo Artist “He’ll never find this one!” / Breakfast Cereal “I guess these aren’t lucky charms” “I’m lactoise intolerant” / Doctor “Dammit Jim, I got the Vulcan Clap now” / Farmer “God, I swear I’m gonna quit Farmville”

Pavlovian Response - 1st round was by far the funniest scene ever. Because it was so funny the audience, myself included, just could not stop laughing. Due to all the laughter, Adam had to grab a noodle and smack anyone inside the circle, meanwhile Daniel had to keep grabbing his crotch everytime 2 hand came into contact with each other. John had they best one… whenever the word ‘is’ was spoken he had to dance.

2nd round was just as hilarious. Jimmy kept hugging people who couldn’t start their sentences with real words while Jon spent half of the scene sitting on the floor whenever someone would place their hands on their hips. Now what made this scene so great was Beth had to sing whenever Jimmy would hug someone, and yell a warcry when Jon would sit onthe floor. Total confusion, and totally insane comedy all across the board.

And there we have it. Although words can never truely discribe such a tremendously hilarious event as a Bring Your Own Improv show, you really need to experience this for yourself. Don’t forget about our “Other 9-5 Show”, Friday, Febuary 5th starting at 9pm and ending at 5 in the morning. best part is after the show breakfast in included! There’s nothing like a free breakfast to end a magical night.

AND SCENE!!!

Welcome to the blog of our 1st show of our 3rd season. New games, and new energy is busting out from the seams.

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Daniel still hasn’t learned how to spell, but he still fights his way through it with style.

Yes and, That’s How It’s Done!
Adam and Ken created a very creative, and strangely agreeable scene that somehow worked with itself. Sweetness!

Featured Audience Member (F.A.M.)
Thank you Ray D. for becoming part of our FAM. We really learned a lot of strange, cool, and funny things about you. Thanks for being here, and thanks for helping us out!

Freeze Tag
Jimmy starts it off with respect to Dan. “Get the fork out!” thanks Daniel. Newest birthday party game, “Pin the nose on the human”. Thanks to Jon for breaking up the crazy immigrant hiding spots; pants, shoes, … armpits? I’d be afraid where else one could hide, lol.

Alphabet
Tacks… Adam and Jon started the game with Ken rocking the bell. Dan had to jump in to help Adam followed shortly by Beth. Lost in his own words Jon dung himself out to allow our FAM, Ray D, to step in to play around and finish up the round with Beth. Great job everybody!

Good Cop, Bad Cop
Poor Dan got himself arrested for some silly things again with some silly people, in the silliest of locations. And to make matters worse, he can’t remember any of it. However to help him remember both Jimmy and Ken are here. This is what Dan gets for listening to one of Nirvana’s first albums backwards and stealing people’s socks, and having his way with them. I mean seriously, why would he ever find one of the largest and most colorful vehicle, only to bleach other people’s clothes in it?

Greatest Hits – NEW GAME
This is the first new game of the night, and the season. But don’t worry, more will come. It starts off with the audience helping us out with a topic. That topic becomes the title of our new album that our cast sings of all original songs using titles that are given to them by a volunteer audience member. A great big THANKS goes out to Dan for bringing that sweet acoustic guitar to help this game soar. Ken, Jimmy, Beth, and Adam made these songs come out so smooth that I wish I was recording. HOT DAMN!!! That F*ing ROCKED!!!

INTERMISSION

What Are You Doing?
Nice Adam, Jimmy is “Kicking @$$ and taking names” “Here is my driver’s license, please don’t kick my @$$.” “Do you have a donkey?” / Leave it to Daniel to be, “Testing if flagpoles are frozen… with his tongue” / “Thinking of a number between 1 and…” “Pie?”

Chainsaw
Haven’t seen this game in a long time, one of my all time favorites. Beth starts with being a ninja, in a toll booth, using bubble wrap. I wonder how it will turn our. Our FAM seemed to get the occupation well, as well as the location, but I’m not so sure about the object. Daniel I think got some of it mixed up, but that’s what makes this game great. Dan on the other hand, being a 3rd man in the chain might had gotten some really mixed signals. Going with what he thought, relayed those to Jimmy and had the audience dying of laughter. I can only imagine how Jon will take Jimmy’s take on all of this. Wow this violent version of the old-fashion game “Telephone” is amazing! How does this turn out? Bubble wrap = Dance Dance Revolution?

Back In My Day – NEW GAME
Another new game. It’s a line game where cast and audience members line up… and give lines. “Back in my day, we didn’t have…” High School, we had Low School, and we had to crawl to get in. / Teddy Ruxpin, if we wanted a talking bear, we’d shove a midget into a grizzly!

Space Jump – NEW GAME
Another BYOI new creation, kinda crazy fun, everything from hippo’s and preggo’s to Beth’s strange dreams. So much “grew” into the scenes, and nothing but laughter as the scenes “shrunk”.

What a great night, just like old times. But with new flavor! And to remind all of you BYOI’ers out there, Feb. 5th is our “Other 9 to 5″ show, breakfast will be included with this crazy great event, Don’t miss it! AND SCENE!!!