Another beautiful Tauranga evening as the players went to the 16^th Ave Theatre for a fun-filled improv comedy night.

The show opened with a new game, ‘My Movie.’ It’s for all the players and designed to be fun for the audience and brain-activating for the players. Two or three letters from the alphabet are gleaned from the audience, and the players are then asked for a film title. The chosen film must offer a tagline and a wee snippet from the film. Some of the titles were bizarre, to say the least!

For example, the letters K and H became the film Kinky Hamburgers.

The ‘Returns Desk’ saw Jon trying to elicit information from the ignorant consumer about what and why they were returning their object.

Kelly marched right on into Victoria’s Secret to return a shark-toothed thong. She told Jon that her mother had been very disappointed with the gift she’d given her, which made the audience react with delighted laughter. Well, can you imagine it?

Kathy was an old lady returning a microwave that only cooked cold, and what a shambles that turned out to be at her garden group. Steve, as Frankenstein’s assistant, Igor, dragged in a Space X rocket that only operated underwater, which the master was not happy about!

It was time for ‘Letters from the Civil War’. This game involved Colonel Jeremiah Humperdink and his sweetheart, Cecilie, who wrote letters to each other.

The theme suggested by the audience was a Dear John letter, and the Colonel was very, very drunk when he wrote it. Oh dear, whatever did he say?

Well, take a look for yourself and see what he wrote and what the response was:

 

See the full game on our YouTube – Civil War Letters

An excellent ‘Sign Language Interpreter’ had the audience in stitches as Kelly interpreted the interview between Jon and Ian, the woolly mammoth trainer who found frozen woolly mammoths in Canada, brought them back, put them into a swimming pool to defrost, and discovered they came to life performing synchronised swimming! This was a rather challenging interpretation for Kelly, who ended up jumping and falling and trying to synchronise actions in a pool.

No show is complete without ‘The Twitch’ game, and, once again, Jon was in the hot seat, having to mimic all the twitches each applicant had as they came in to be interviewed for the dentist position. This had Jon exhausted by the end, much to the audience’s delight. A great game to finish up another fun improv comedy night.

Thanks to players

Jon & MC Steve Kathy Kelly

Gala Mark Ian

Thanks to
Admin: Fee
Sound engineer: Anthony.

Book your tickets for the next show and join the players for loads of laughs.

1^st Saturday of every month.
16th Ave Theatre.
16th Avenue, Tauranga.
Show Starts: 7.30 p.m.
Licenced bar available.