3rd improv, with extra haas sauce in it!

I swear, this is the very image that popped into my head for that character mash-up skit!

Rabbi Haas said we were to take a famous scene from a movie - 

for me and Judy Wilburn, it was Forest Gump and someone else sitting on a bench, waiting for the bus, with me as Gump and her as the other person - 

but with each of us performing the roles as characters from other movies, with it up to others to figure out who those characters were.

 

I also swear that I didn't choose my character based on the known love of our noble leader for fantasy science fiction.

 

I was just sitting there when the first duo got up and did their sketch -

it was the scene in the diner from "When Harry Met Sally" -

and suddenly I knew exactly who I wanted my character to be: Groot.

 

Perhaps it's my lifelong love of trees that makes me feel close to him.

 

As for the reason I chose Groot on this occasion, I can proffer a few.

Perhaps it was a recent conversation with the bfe about the Mandarin language, in which one word can have five meanings dependent on how the word is pronounced.

Perhaps the multiple viewings of GOTG and GOTG:V2 recently had him top of mind.

Perhaps it was the challenge of seeing if I could do as well as Vin Diesel at incorporating different meanings into the three words of Groot's limited vocabulary.

 

All I can say for sure is this: it really threw off the rhythm of the skit.

Judy, who was trying to channel Alice in Wonderland, clearly had no clue what I was doing.

Not even my hand movements were of help to her.

Science fiction was clearly not her jam.

 

Oh, well.

That was not the only failed skit.

When we tried to go around the ring with the eight people there, telling a story one word per person, everyone played along well except Audrey.

There we were, talking about a pet turtle, and when it's her turn to add a word to the tale, what did she say?

"Politician".

For real.

My turn followed hers, so I tried to make that hot mess fit it, but everyone was thrown.

 

I realize that she does stand-up comedy somewhere, but she has no talent for improv.

She doesn't 'get it' that the point is to work along with the person on stage with her, not to draw the attention solely to her.

I know Haas tried to pull her back several times, but she doesn't take hints.

 

So, who else was over at Asbury Memorial for this session?

Four Asburians - 

me and Judy, as well as Steve and Ronda Reed - 

plus four from Mickve Israel -

the Rabbi, Audrey and Peg, plus newcomer, Marcia. 

That's why I added the pun in the title!

 (smile!)

 

Here are a few more puns, courtesy of Sherry Giddens on fb.

 

"I know that nose - it has a ring to it!"

 

"I don't have money for that cape, but it's okay because I can... charge it!"

 

"Dating a matador? That's a red flag in my book."

 

Poor Ed, he was mistakenly at the annual Punning of the Bulls.

 

Hahahaha!!!