improv is good for you

During moments of great duress, life would be so much easier if we could all just yell: “Matt! RPG!”

“Will there ever be a boy born that can swim faster than a shark?”

Kristen Schaal in an ad for Starburst fruit chews. You know, the candy that kids sell on subway cars to raise money for their basketball team uniforms — or to have some money in their pockets to keep them out of trouble, which implies that a lack of money is the very reason they do get into trouble. Anyway, I and everyone I know have a crush on Kristen because she is awesome. Just like Starburst fruit chews.
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Back in January, I signed up for improv classes at the PIT, largely to comply with a New Year’s resolution, but also because I knew Dion Flynn was teaching the course. I had seen Dion’s stagework beforehand, and had a gut feeling that that might be the last opportunity to work with him. Indeed, by mid-March, Dion had booked a new sketch-comedy show, in addition to some national commercials that involved cellphones. In recent weeks, he’s been turning up on BWE (here he portrays the anonymous hiker who allegedly saw Suri Cruise getting breast-fed); I hope to keep these clips up until legal drops the hammer. In the meantime,  our man Flynn shows up — when he can — to play with The Faculty. Get some.

From the Best Week Ever blog: “Tests have revealed that Keith Richards suffered a small brain hemorrhage as a result of falling out of a coconut tree in Fiji. The test results shocked doctors, as they had assumed Richards ran out of blood and was running purely on heroin since the early 1980s.”(May 3, 2006)