Word: improvment
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Whenever my friends and I used to do comedic improv, it was understood when a scene was over—it was when we descended into discussions of sex with animals. The introduction of bestiality symbolized an exhaustion of creativity. It’s just too easy: juxtaposition and titillation equal humor. Yet when the subject is tackled not as a plot twist, but as a main topic, for a new play with no less an author than Edward Albee, attention must be paid. Could Albee, the master of exploring the absurd to gain insight into the mundane, have found...
...Lucien Smith ’03, a veteran of the Immediate Gratification Players improv troupe, emceed the pageant. Although he said he is a novice to the beauty pageant scene, he won the crowd early with an uncanny impression of President Bill Clinton...
...jokes run from nonsensical (wet-burka competitions and "Enron Hubbard, head of the Church of Profitology") to predictable ("We used to pay for powder in little white envelopes"). Comedians who play closer to the edge, like Chris Rock or Andy Dick, make his style seem quaint. But Robin Williams' improv is still an amazing high-wire act. "It's a risk if it doesn't work," he told TIME last month. "But it's a gas. You go out and kick it, and every night you pick up new stuff...
...Immediate Gratification Players, an improv group, and the Collegium Musicum choir performed in other separate events...
From there, things get complicated. As the spelling bee draws near, the submarine crew’s environmentally-unfriendly mission is revealed, as are surprising secrets about Darryl’s true relationship with Andy and Andrew. The aforementioned improv group and George Foreman are also involved...