Acting Improv

Acting Improv is THE best activity there is.

Lancaster

Acting Improv, or AI, is offered almost every day, often twice, and since the start of the weekly/daily system, has also been offered as a weekly. The format is supremely basic; the students sit in a circle and suggest games and game scenarios. Then the RA (or a student the RA has designated to lead the activity) selects the game, the situation, and the actors involved. There is no requirement to be in the games; indeed, many CTYers just come to AI to be entertained.

At LAN.08.1, the games usually ran in the following order:
1. Park Bench
2. Freeze
3. Party Quirks/Late to Work/Press Conference
4. World's Worst
5. Amazing Sphinx

Also see Project Ektelo, an ongoing project for the introduction of new AI games.

Games

• Park Bench
• Freeze
• Slideshow
• Late to Work
• Party Quirks
• Press Conference
• Dating Game
• Amazing Sphinx
• Subconscious
• Chain Death Murder
• Foreign Film Dubs/Translator
• Superheroes
• Film Critics
• Questions
• Auctioneer
• New Choice
• Perpetual Machine
• 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1
• Sports Announcers
• World's Worst
• Half-life

Common Themes/Jokes

• Frank Wang
• Blood of the Innocent (Nixon)
• He was my friend! (Papa T)
• I don't think that's the right way to go to the bathroom!
• There can only be one! (On the park bench)
• Michael Jackson
• Zeke Weiner
• Killing Jokes (started by Nixon who would walk into the center, and pretend to shoot the offender)
• Giving birth
• Electric Shock which started with Hal in 05.2.
• Crucifixion of Christ
• Dick Cheney's shooting of his hunting partner
• Necrophilia (started by Race, who would lick the bodies of those pretending to die)
• "I'm a killer whale" was a park bench tactic often used on Otter Lee by John Harrison in 08. 2. At its crux, the joke escalated in a food chain from Otter/Killer Whale/Inuit/Alaskan Oil Driller... Many other AI games were later used to incorporate this gag.

Carlisle

Until 03.1, Improv was a common activity at Carlisle. In the second week of session 1, though, an offensive joke about 9/11 was made. It has not been offered since.