DCM '08 Highlights

#1
The Stepfathers- Holy shit! Gethard Vs. Shannon was the coolest thing ever! I'm glad I skipped getting food to see that.

My two most favorite shows this year were The Swarm and Respecto Montalban. Both teams are filled with some of the smartest, most fun improvisers to watch on stage. I'm sad I only get to see them once a year.
 
#4
Pudding-Thank You was definitely great. They started off slow and made something pretty awesome out of it.

Improvised Shakespeare was totally amazing. They need to open up a NY workshop.

At the Urban Stages, I liked Mailer Daemon. Best moment: "Shut up, Ellie!"
 
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#5
Improvised Shakespeare Company. But if you have talked to me for 3 second in the last week, you know how I feel about that. Their Saturday workshop was one of the best workshops I have ever taken.
Watching 4 Track while very drunk and very sleepy. I am unclear on whether I dreamed their set or not.
Zach Woods as played by an ironing board with 5 Dudes.
Seeing Gethard be violent in both 5 Dudes and Stepfathers.
The Stamp and Coin Club for the take-off-shoe-and-throw it game. "I don't get the game." "It's pretty simple."
Rogue Elephant's "Where did that scene go!?" game.
The weirdness that was Just Pallin Around.
The Scam. I just plain heart them right now.
Scheer-McBrayer on Thursday for the class room scene.
 
#7
Oh, and did anyone else notice the callback in the Scheer-McBrayer show on sunday from the Myspace show on Friday (Muscle confusion)? I thought that was amazing.
 

Eugenegue

Ready for Spring
#8
I was only there for about 6 hours, but Code Duello stole my heart:

Hamilton: "I used to love this gun."
Burr: "Then why don't you marry it."
 

astamate

green track jacket
#9
Oh, and did anyone else notice the callback in the Scheer-McBrayer show on sunday from the Myspace show on Friday (Muscle confusion)? I thought that was amazing.
They also called back about 90% of the shows they've ever done with that Ghost Ship reference.

- Achilles O(*_*)O
 
#10
The obvious:

Weirdass continues to thrill me everytime I see it. The patience of the 1/8 Star scene was inspirational. Most of us would be tempted to hit the jokes in that scene in about 40 seconds, but we all knew where the scene was going so they just enjoyed the ride and played the scene for several minutes making the payoff we all expected so much more sublime.

Bassprov is always great, but this was the weirdest damned Bassprov I've ever seen. First time I've ever seen anyone leave the boat. First time I've ever seen for lack of a better phrase; a sci-fi Bassprov. And again, great patience with the utility tool instead of beating the joke to death

The less obvious:

Hunter Family Crest. Nothing so much mind-blowing, but it reminded me very much of the improv I was doing three or four years ago and had fun doing (I don't mean I've gotten better since then, just changed a bit)

Start Trekkin: Just like the Austin show, this show could be exactly what it sounds like; cliches and Shatner impersonations, but instead it's a very commedia inspired piece that respects the themes and ideas that actually made Star Trek a great show in the first place, instead of the parts which are easy to poke fun at. Like Besser said during the press conference, respect a genre, don't make fun of it.
 

Hal Phillips

I Am Hal Phillips
#11
That Stepfathers show was the coolest show I've seen at the UCB. I've seen awesome improv and I've seen fucked-up late-night DCM improv, but this show was the most fun to watch. I know it sounds lame to be like "people were fighting, it was so cool!", but it wasn't even that. It was everybody else dealing with it and working around it, and it was never knowing how far it was gonna go. It was "I can't believe I just saw what I just saw and I can't believe what I think I'm about to see next".

The defining moment of that show for me wasn't Gethard hitting Shannon or Shannon hitting Gethard. It was Bobby walking by just before the fight and offering to hold Gethard's glasses for $5. That's teamwork.

Also, my favorite exchange of the DCM, from the Fat Guy show:
Rocco: "I don't know whether that's the most wrong thing I've ever seen or the most awesome!"
Neil: "It's wrong!"
Rocco: "Yeah, but come on, you don't see that every day."
Neil: "Yes, but novelty doesn't mean goodness!"
 

Holmes

of the Rare Bird Show
#12
WeirDass:
"throw your donut on my back"
and the whole theatre review scene

I really, really, really wanted to get in to see Start Trekkin' and I'm more upset about missing it now that I hear it was so great.

The spotlight moment in Baby Wants Candy on Sunday afternoon.
 
#16
Director's Commentary Live:

"Oh, dat's my leg poosey"

"ME. Not me. ME. Not me. ME."

"MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"
 
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El Jefe

latitudinarian
Staff member
#17
I didn't see as many shows as I have in past marathons, but I loved The Satellites. My highlight was everyone riffing on Rob Huebel's character having said, "I'll kill myself, and then I'll kill you!" Ian Roberts finally tagged in as another armed man facing him.

IAN ROBERTS: You picked the wrong guy to mess with, hombre.

He points the gun at his own head. Rob does the same and they start screaming at each other about how they're going to do it; they're going to kill themselves and then kill each other.

Finally Rob puts his head against Ian's, and the ridiculous concept actually makes sense. They each are technically going to kill themselves and, after the bullet exits their brains, each other. Which they do. Blackout.

Yay.
 
#19
Monkeydick was hilarious - the stationary store and the record shop on the third floor; the 2K cancer marathon; the powerpoint presentation meeting; there's nothing weird about 2 grown men going to the carousel etc etc.
 
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