Your Improv troupe was Almost named…

[SixSider]

I Have A Blog?!?

 

[El Jefe]

I really wanted Pygmy Marmalade to be called Hate, mostly because I love the Peter Bagge comic so much. Some of us decided that it was too negative.

Meanwhile, Eric Zuckerman, Jarret Berenstein, Tiffany Morningstar and I (Dave, were you there?) all got drunk at McManus one night and swore we were going to do a show together as Country Jeff's Olde-Tyme Raperie.

"Tomorrow, we're going to think this is a bad idea," I said. "We have to promise to do this!"

And, of course, the next morning I thought better of it and said that maybe we should change the name. Jarret gave me shit about being such a pussy, and suggested we perform as "Country Jeff's Olde-Tyme Consensual Sex-erie."

We never did perform, which I regret.

 

[qnarf]

I really wanted Pygmy Marmalade to be called Hate, mostly because I love the Peter Bagge comic so much. Some of us decided that it was too negative.

Meanwhile, Eric Zuckerman, Jarret Berenstein, Tiffany Morningstar and I (Dave, were you there?) all got drunk at McManus one night and swore we were going to do a show together as Country Jeff's Olde-Tyme Raperie.

"Tomorrow, we're going to think this is a bad idea," I said. "We have to promise to do this!"

And, of course, the next morning I thought better of it and said that maybe we should change the name. Jarret gave me shit about being such a pussy, and suggested we perform as "Country Jeff's Olde-Tyme Consensual Sex-erie."

We never did perform, which I regret.

was that the night you ended up having a shouted conversation from the back of a pickup truck [?] with an african guy who was going through a messy divorce on the manhattan bridge?
either way, i'll still totally do that show.



the last five years have been really weird.

 

[alden]

Sidecar knocked around a few ideas before we settled on a name - we had a conversation about how a lot of good improv team names sound like either cocktails or sexual maneuvers - White Lightning, the Bunny Hop, Quasimodo. None of those are either a cocktail or a sexual maneuver, but they easily could be.

Matt Fisher's and my Rock Band band is called LeVar Squirtin'. When Rock Band II comes out, we will be called Urethra Franklin.

 

[benjamincanfly]

I have often tried to get people to name an improv team "Fight me!" My brain knows that at some point I'll perform under that name.

 

[DigsyMadrox]

the reason we came up with bad data came about from distinct dislike for the star wars flavor of the original front runner, bad droid. and those people who didn't like the star wars stuff later left the group, of course. however, i like bad data better--it's more flexible, is almost a pun, and people can choose-their-own-pronunciation.


and it was my idea. SUCKAS!

Me and Kim were big Bad Droid-name fans. We decided on Bad Data to get away from the Star Wars-y connotation and then immediately realized that Bad Robot was the name of JJ Abrams production company. Good thing we ditched Droid (although Bad Data is the name of a rave rock band in LA that wants to sue us).

We were almost Bruce after a hilarious 1985 show where Will Hines out gayed Gavin's character by saying his name was Bruce San Francisco. Naming your team after something said by another team is pretty lame though.

I organized a name tournament and just found it in my gchat. The bold ones were my suggestions.

ABE
Bad Droid
Brunswick
Chanteuse
Clutch Kids
Cup Co.
Feldman
Inverted Commas
Meets The Rising Ape
Mister Monday
PF Flyers
Section 8
SpeedHoles
Teenage Kicks
The Fights
The New Fighters
The Stakes
The Toners
Wrecker
Yan Tan Tethera

 

[Hal Phillips]

Has there ever been an improv group whose name wasn't some form of noun? There should be.

A nice -ing verb. There should be an improv group called Jumping.

 

[David Siegel]

The very first team I was cast on when I performed with Dirty South Improv had three choices for our name:

- "Penetrectum"

- "Improvagina"

- "Tony's Pony"

To this day, I regret that we went with number 3.

 

[El Jefe]

was that the night you ended up having a shouted conversation from the back of a pickup truck [?] with an african guy who was going through a messy divorce on the manhattan bridge?
either way, i'll still totally do that show.

Oh, my God! Yes! I forgot about that detail.

 

[thestorie]

I have often tried to get people to name an improv team "Fight me!" My brain knows that at some point I'll perform under that name.

the name that I suggest at every chance is "The Greatest Generation."

I finally performed with it in my level 5 class show. it was also, by a mile, the best class show I've ever been a part of.

…coincedence?

 

[bozarth]

I always suggest "Movies in Class" but no one ever likes it.

For my last 501 show, I suggested "Movies in Class" and no one was sold on it, so I said "Columbia/TriStar Home Video Presents", which everyone loved (and Anthony King introduced us perfectly).

 

[ruby sneakers]

meets the rising ape and yan tan tethera are still great names.

 

[astamate]

My favorite team name has to be "Mother: Featuring Jason Mantzoukas, Saturdays at 10:30" from a 'Zouks 501 class show I saw a while back.

- Achilles O(*_*)O

 

[qnarf]

I always want to come out to this, and am always the only person in the world who thinks that that's a good idea:

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just for you, hal, hello laser entered to that last night.

 

[DigsyMadrox]

I had a nice streak going of naming my class show teams. If two times is a streak. Chanteuse was my 101 and The Doodlers was my 201.

 

[Hal Phillips]

My level one class show team, at the suggestion of someone else and to my great chagrin, was "Assface McGee".

 

[anelso5]

Snacktime was originally Fuckhouse.

 

[Jesse's Name]

I will continue to suggest Funny Bono to any group that will have me.

 

[MichelleD]

I will continue to suggest Funny Bono to any group that will have me.

That is fantastic!

 

[Dave B]

Iron Ruckus was almost...

The New Ruckus
Ferrous
Bryce and the Dallas Howards