Class number 1 - Game Innuendo
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Guys, I am LOVING the suggestions and sentences.
Although class is far from over, humanodon has one of my favorite suggestions with "Feeder Mice".
Please feel free to use the thread as a personal exercise to use your imagination and be gross, that is what the exercise is for.
Usually at shows the format for this type of game, the participants will line up step forward, say their line, then step back. Basically as long as you don't actually think that what you are saying is true, it's judgment free.
nowaypablo I'd like to talk about the things you brought up over here with regards to writing and story telling.
Almost every time I go to an improv event the scenes always inspire me for weird situations that I can write about. Yesterday's this troupe did this really great Harold that inspired me to think about a cross country car trip where one of the companions just happens to be a bug or other outrageous monster. No big deal to the friends, but along the road you could imagine what kind of trouble they could get into. Improv is great like that because it's all about spontaneous story telling.
Then again, that is a bit of a preconditioned structure to work by (edit: and so weakens the "value" of improv therein)
I see improv games as amazing practice as well great fun packed with entertainment value.. but it's still not as raw as you can get. Not to diminish it or devalue things like Harolding, but working the crowd for example is a very difficult form of improv in stand-up and it is rarely ever a killer performance... in fact I can't think of any really "homerun" crowd-working because there are just so many wild factors and risks.
However, that to me is an example of ultimate improv, not just acting without the script, but without the set and director too.
But that aside, you're absolutely right that improv can really end up anywhere, and that's really the fun of it. I'm personally real into jazz music, and seeing a live performance where you know (or better yet, aren't even sure) that they're improvising is a thrill man, it's a ride.
I tried to make the little children suggestion as harmless as possible, I thought about saying something depraved, but I decided that it would be in bad taste, so there's that. The rest (well the ones I commented on) were easier to come up with something for.
swedishbadgergirl the doggiebag one made me gag as I read it, good show!
One thing I like about the text format is that you are unable to rely on physicality with the audience, so sometimes an improviser might make a disgusting gesture to simulate what they are talking about, which is fine, but it's cool to see that restriction based on the format here.