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So the crowd is coming in, we have some regulars, we have some new faces and we have a birthday party! We have a full house! We here at BYOI love to help people laugh when they get old and decrepit. So lets start it off….
John Ring comes out and gives the audience the manditory state lawed choices of exits in case of emergency. He also goes over how everyone can participate, and informs them all where the bathroom is.Then he introduces the cast.
We have Oscar Van Pudding, the tall man -Ben Clareton, the man with the plan- Daniel Lee White, furry faced crazy man-Jimmy Sorrel, and the lovely and hilarious Beth Hicks!
so yes and that’s how it’s done! Dan and Oscar talk about being a pianist and the dill do’s and dill dont’s.
Beth comes out and warms up the audience with some Mad Men references, gets some of the audience to do a Marilyn Monroe impersonations and touch themselves. Getting warm in here. Oof!
Ben and Dan do the FAM, we have the birthday girl herself as a new FAM! Her name is Liz, she’s from Connecticut, she likes Providence. She has family in Ohio, her mom is her favorite relative, she calls her “Momma-Norma”. Someone in her family is a minister. Her father paints, her mom plays church music piano. She hates Kate who works with her and thinks she is a know it all. Marsielle and Ferrez are two of her good friends and join her on the stage. Her friends give us the skinny on Liz, she has lots of tattoos. Her friend is a social worker who makes jewelry when she wants to. Marciella is knocked up, (it wasn’t me) she’s a war vet and tells us Liz likes pancakes, and will do anything on a dare.
Now for…Family Dinner! She chooses Ben to play her in the made for stage presentation of dinner time. Beth gets to be Marsielle, and Dan gets to be Ferrez. Things that made people chuckle, Dixie Chicks, party jacket and everyday hat. Birthday cakes and lots of stuff I missed because the laughing was so loud and because a whole bunch of people showed up late.The show starts at 9pm people! Not 9:15!
Now… Story Story Die! We line up a the cast and we get some audience members to play and tell a story about pickles the bunny, who needs to play agame of Twister. Uh oh our audience member is as funny as the cast. Beth dies, but doesn’t die she just comes back next season. Oscar dies! Now it’s Jimmy and audience member going head to head and the audience is going wild! Oh no! Jimmy dies! The audience member finishes the story making it hillarious and I feel shame.
Now we are doing it again and the audience champion comes back once more to shame us some more. The story is about our character Stone, going to the D.M.V and waiting. The story is going strong, lots of silly voices going on, our first casulty is our audience member who dies Scorsasee style. John dies gummy bear style, then Ben kicks off muppett style, and Jimmy wins as a super dork!
Now it’s time for… Sit Stand Lie Down! So we have Dan and Oscar and a audience member that looks like the smaller, younger, fuller headed of hair version of me. The scene is about hot tub. We have some prostate jokes, someone is made of cheese, Oscar attempts to do a push-up. Oops the audience member has an annurism, no one helps him, and we have some slap stick that makes people laugh and Ben calls scene from off stage.
Part two of Sit Stand Lie down, one of our audience members is a organizer for humanitarians, and Ben, Jimmy and John. They are at some kind of factory, and John plays a character from the 1920’s what a stretch! John has a heart attack, they have phone tubes of some sort and it is alot funnier than I can type.
now it’s time for Ho-Down! Oscar takes up the guitar and the song is about Nelson Mandela, John ring starts it of somehow rhmes morgan freeman, Beth flunks history, our bald young audience member does a stellar job, Jimmy finishes it okay. They are going to try again, this time about babies. John rhymes Tigger with whiskey jigger, Beth rhmes times with rhmes and makes it work. Audience member makes it work about not wanting babies at all, Jimmy rhmes worn with new born, and all the words they sang were perfectly out of key and hillarious.
Break time!
Were back with the show!
Our first game is What Are You Doing? We have a lot of audience members up to make with the funny! Creating smurfs with hand puppets, making pop tarts, raking a graveyard, a whole list of stuff with taxes, tattooing a prego war vet, a Jewish person tries to sing in choir, making a cake, tripping the light (comma) fantastic, teaching kids that driving and drinking is okay, giving everything it’s a own noise, eating dumplings at a sushi bar without chop sticks, running on empty, reuniting my high school cover band and finally one upping God.
Next game! It is Press Conference! Our celebrity is Anna Nicole Smith, she just cut a record, with Michael Jackson. (Yes. We know they are dead, our audience has no class, thats why we love them.) Dan has no idea who he is and he’s out of the gate. He gets some clues and figures out that he is back from dead. He slowly gets he has long golden hair, still floundering, Jimmy comes over and gives him some banana pickles and gritz (it sounds like Anna Nicole Smith haha, good job Jimmy but Dan doesn’t get it…. uh oh…) Now Oscar tries fan a pit hole spit… Jimmy gives it a rhhming try with ran a rick ol’ smit. Dan finaly gets it to the enjoyment of all! The crowd goes wild! He easily gets the cutting a new track. With out to much trouble he figures out that M.J helped him and applause!
Next game is Famous Last Words! The cast lines up to make with the silly, we get two audience members that jump up happily! Famous last words of a pregnant woman, obituary writer, therapist, business analyst, plaid and dental floss.If you wanted to know what the last words of those things were then you should have been here because I couldn’t type because I was laughing to much.
Final game of the night!
We have two partners that can freeze thing, two others that celebrate Spider Day, and the last two have “I’m so hungry that I could eat a hot dog or a chito ” . We have ” killed a horse”, “stepped out for a coffee break”, ” eh ha”,” so what do you think about tomorow? Chinese ?”, “I have seven dead bodies under my bed”, ” One by one killed them all”, “So if you could travel through time like I could?”
One more time! Team one has “Panda”, Team two has” Pig”. Team three has “Peacock”. funny lines “Hold on let me look at the label.” (Ben is a Panda and is extremely realistic.) “Now if I lick the dynamite, I think it will work.” ” his plumage is pluming.” I’t’s Sunday and we are going to the Tony Awards.” “Sleep with him again?!” Dirty internet porn magazines”.” Put you r bamboo in a particular spot.” The scene ends with Ben crying because he was a fat panda that couldn’t twirl. It was all really funny, maybe you were here? Maybe you can go back in time and see the show. Maybe you could just come to our next show? Maybe I should stop telling you what to do. Anyways…
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Tonight we did a show and helped Jessi celebrate her 13th birthday with her friends!