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| Marcy's class! We graduated! |
A huge fan of the Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Central show and Sundays' widely popular ASSSSCAT shows, UCB has been a part of my life since high school (which was longer ago than you might think). Memories of college dorm room life are heavily sprinkled with UCB comedy, as my roommate Talia and I would fall asleep every night to our worn season one DVD (played from her laptop computer of course). Obviously, most of our conversations included bit clips from the show; quotes like "You shut your zsezse mouth" and "Don't sit on me!" always found their way into our day-to-day dialogue. To this day, I can't eat sushi without incorporating into the meal spontaneous outbursts of "I LOVE SUSHI!"
When the opportunity to see my four favorite comedians doing live improv every Sunday FOR FREE arose, you bet I was there sitting first row every chance I got. Sure, the lines for ASSSSCAT got pretty rough but that was a small price to pay to see Matt, Matt, Ian, and (occasionally) Amy do their thing mere feet away from my eyeballs. They don't perform ASSSSCAT on the regular anymore (cause they're all pretty big now) so I feel really fortunate to have seen them in those days. Yes, I said it. I saw them before you soooo... I'm cool and stuff.
So why didn't I immediately sign up for their improv classes? I have no idea. Fear of not being quick enough, smart enough, funny enough... yeah probably. Anyway, after seeing a majority of commercial auditions morph from scripted material to improv, I decided to stop avoiding the unavoidable, it was time... to stop thinking. "Don't think," UCB's motto is exactly what I did that fateful moment when I closed my eyes and charged $400 to my credit card... Of course, the expense hurt at the time but the experience was worth every penny. Marcy, our teacher was hilarious (and informative), the other students were fun to play with, and I became inspired to see shows other than ASSSSCAT.
We had our class graduation show yesterday afternoon. The house was surprisingly huge and was filled with hearty laughter (gotta love supportive friends!) Honestly, I don't even know what I did up there for 20 minutes; it's all a giant blur. Was it actually funny? Who knows. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that I'm on track! I plan on going all the way with this, 201, 301, etc. I'll even try my hand at the sketch classes. Guys listen. I'm really excited about this.
