My favorite dream and worst nightmare
Here’s the deal, for the two people who contacted me about last night:
1. They interacted with an audience member. It wasn’t preplanned. Three on Three improvisers should feel free to interact with the audience if the scene calls for it. Apple reacted more than another audience member might, and they used it. In the same way I wouldn’t penalize a team for a drunk audience member taking the stage, I didn’t penalize Boywonder.
2. No one on Hot Sauce told me Adam was sick. They didn’t say anything to me at all. I found out when he “got the suggestion” (he couldn’t actually hear anyone). There were only two improvisers on stage. You need three. They knew I wouldn’t like what they were doing, but instead of dropping out of the tournament or asking me to make an exception, they did it behind my back. If they had told me in advance Pally was sick and needed to fill his spot, I would have made an exception. I’m not heartless. But I also don’t enjoy being lied to.
Side note: Judges knocked off so many points for HS only having two people, they wouldn’t have advanced anyway.
I guess I missed this last year. That seems like it’s in the spirit for Adam to get the suggestion, and allow his teammates to do the bulk of the scenework. Especially if he’s just ill on one night but able to participate in later shows. It’s not like Hot Sauce wasn’t a very well-established team, and Adam’s presence was a ploy to do a two-man show for the rest of the tournament. The guy was very sick, but still manages to come to the theater and get onstage his team, only to be disqualified basically for “not doing enough” in his paltry seven minutes?
Wow Pat. With this kind of treatment, no wonder everyone’s leaving for LA.
This was the semi finals. They had already advanced with all three of them in the quarterfinals.
And he didn’t show up. He got the suggestion via phone. And then he got disconnected. So he wasn’t even on the phone the whole 10 minutes.
Either you read what I wrote wrong, or you purposely posted this to piss me off. Thanks, justin.
Also, thanks for reminding me that friends of mine live in LA and I don’t get to see them. Fuck off.
