UCBTNY Podcast - 1/24/10

[john_frusciante]

The UCBT Podcast for the week of 1/24 is up now! Get it at http://www.ucbcomedy.com/podcasts/ucbtny or on iTunes.

This week, Will and I discussed some issues of stage etiquette. Agree? Disagree? Got something about this that we didn't bring up? Discuss it here!

[patbaer]

First off, thanks for the shout-out.

Brought up in a discussion John, Rachael Mason, and I had: you should NEVER chew gum on stage.

I'm certainly no fan of shorts on stage.... I don't really care too much about water bottles.

[john_frusciante]

That's right, I realized when we talked about it in person that I forgot to mention chewing gum on stage. Definitely a weird thing to think it's okay to do in an improv show.

[WillieBHines]

Chewing gum would be terrible! People do that! I'm a slob and even I would know better.

Worse than chewing gum:
having a meal delivered to you during your show.
catching up on your reading during a show
announcing "I farted" from the backline
hitting on an audience member from the backline
getting a hair cut during the show

[john_frusciante]

Worse than chewing gum:
hitting on an audience member from the backline

Will, you don't think there's some aspect of the audience that only comes to an improv show to be hit on? I like to tell myself that they all do.

[WillieBHines]

It's not the hitting on that bothers me, it's doing it from the backline. You're upstaging someone else's scene, you see.

If you're IN a scene it's completely appropriate to turn your attention to audience members in order to proposition them.