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Everybody likes playing improv games! This is the section of the website where we attempt to bring improv to the web. Yay! Here's what we've got so far:

INTERACTIVE

(That means you, you net-surfing maniac, you.)

  • Paragraph for Paragraph. Word for word is a fun improv game where each improver says one word until everyone has said a word. Then you repeat. You attempt to form sentences and then whole stories. This is a similar concept, except not nearly as good, due mostly to the fact that we do not get enough traffic to make it necessary.

  • It's Tuesday. It's an emotional roller coaster where you begin your scene with the last sentence of the previous scene... of course, if you are first, "It's Tuesday." This is your chance to show you know how to emote.

GROUP WARMUPS


"185 ______ walk into a bar...and the bartender draws a blank."

Can you start a sentence with every letter of the alphabet and make a "decent" conversation out of it? Duh. Explanations are unnecessary, right? Fine. Go get 'em!

Who's the bunny? The ears? Better pay attention. It could be you next.

~Snap~ Keep ~Snap~ Rhythm
~Snap~ Keep Rhythm! ~Snap~ Doo-doo-doo!

 In this game, one person does something...
In this game, one person does something...

You think I'm kidding...and we never can all get it right, either!


Pass the squeeze...if only it were that simple.

That circular track follows above us wherever we go...
Well, at least we know we can always call Cupid...
"DENIED!"...or just whimper. Bong!

Point and zip! Point and zap! Point and...er, you get the point.

STARTERS FOR CHARACTERS AND SCENES


See Space Jump. Now run 3 in parallel.

Welcome, and let's give a warm welcome to Celebrity X!
"HiiiJJJiimmmitttt'''sssggrreeattttooobeeeheeeeree"
Trust us, the celebrity only sounds stupid because they are.

Cut! That scene needed more feeling, more emotion. Be the character, except be the character MORE. And we're going to repeat it until we're satisifed.

Of course I know what "gutanblargg" means. This would be easier if we really spoke this language...whatever it is.

Before you ask the obvious question
About limericks and their ingestion,
Let me tell you we spout
All our limericks out
Of some audience member's suggestion.

"Rhyming couplets are fun."
"Well at least, you'll say that when they're done...
...Rhyme with what you just heard."
"We mean, of course, just the last word...
...then start the line for the next person."
"... ... ...but be tricky, and I'll have to say, 'Grr,' son!"

I hate receptionists, don't you? It took me three characters just to get into that black hole!

"Two" "heads" "are" "better" "than" "one…" "Wait…" "better" "make"
"that" "three."

Person, place, or thing…no noun or phrase is sacred when it's the world's worst.

"This website is nice." "Yes, and it's user-friendly." "Yes, and it's all thanks to its neat interface." "Yes, and... uh... yeah."

PERFORMANCE FAVORITES


  • 1,3,5
This sentence is limited to only eight words.
Whereas other people may be allowed as many as ten.
I only have four.
Two, here.
One!

  • Bad Day
You thought you had a normal day, didn't you?
Yeah, but you RUINED three peoples' lives during it, and they're here to tell you about it, you horrible person, you.

  • Chain Murder
A perfect example of why multiple mute 3rd-person eyewitness reports aren't reliable.

  • Clue
Two people accost a criminal for something he doesn't know he did, until he confesses. Just like the criminal justice system.

  • Death in a Minute
Two men enter, with a trout and abstract art.
One man leaves.
Or they both lose.

  • Death in Thirty Seconds
You're in a pillow factory. You have 30 seconds to figure out as many ways to die there as possible. Grizzly bears are cheating.

  • Entrances and Exits
You mean I have to either enter or exit the scene every time "it" is said?!?
And this should seem like a natural thing for me to do?

  • Emotional Squares
Careful, one step to the left and you'll move from the happy-go-lucky square to the homicidal rage square.

  • Forward Reverse
You start a scene and go until someone calls
REVERSE!
You start a scene and go until someone calls
  • Forward Reverse
Careful, one step to the left and you'll move from the happy-go-lucky square to the homicidal rage square.
FORWARD!
Careful, one step to the left and you'll move from the happy-go-lucky square to the homicidal rage square.
  • Forward Reverse
You start a scene and go until someone calls "Reverse"
then go backwards until they call "Forward." Confused?
I'm sure it's just because of this web page's format.

  • Freeze Tag
Clap and yell, "FREEZE!" Take a player's place and position,
then start a new scene from it.

  • Go
Go.
(Gadget-copter!)

  • God
Whatever god says, goes. Don't ask why jello is falling from the sky, just play along.

  • Good Idea, Bad Idea, Worse Idea
Good idea: Write a website describing LTT!
Bad idea: Flood it with inside jokes
Worse idea: Have it hosted by AOL

  • Madrigal
A word? A phrase? Now sing? Who are we? The Von Trapp children?

  • Last Line First
The Von Trapp children? They'd never play a game in which every partnership had to start a scene with the last line of the scene before it!

  • Party Quirks
Host a party of weirdoes, but you may not know what kind until you figure it out yourself. Ever seen Whose Line is it Anyway? They stole that from us. Or we stole that from them. One or the other.

  • Pet Peeve Symphony
We're all full of hate. Some of us just hate strange things. So we like to talk about it, or yell, depending upon whether or not we're talking over other people.

  • Pillars of Knowledge
Just a regular scene, until you need a word from a select audience member, in which case you slaughter them.
Hey, don't blame us- he said it.

  • Prop Montage
What could you do with a paper clip, a piece of string, and a candy bar, MacGyver?

  • Samba De Amigo
Wait...how did that get in here?
That's not an improv gO TO THE NEXT STAGE!

  • Scooby Doo
Charades on crack.
What's that Scooby? You say Mother Teresa and Jacob Marley robbed a convenience store of all its Slim Jims but found out they were bugged so they threw all their pixie sticks in the Chatanooga?

  • Sitting, Standing, Leaning
If one of your partners is standing and the other is leaning, you better sit your rear down!

  • Slide Show
A moose once bit my sister...No really!...and here's the picture to prove it. Just wait until I show you what happened to that ice cream truck upstairs!

  • Sounds Like A Song
Just a regular scene, right?
FREEZE! Sounds like a song called "Just a regular scene, right?"
In the style of the German national Anthem! Start the music!

  • Space Jump
Freeze Tag with a twist: Each time the director yells "Space jump" and a number, a scene begins with that number of players... If that number's already been called, that specific scene must continue where it left off...harder than it looks...even harder than it sounds. There's also a 3D variant. Don't ask.

  • Story, Story, Die!
Tell a story in the style of a pirate, or a Greek myth, or a corrupt police officer, but it had better be good, or the audience will kill you...literally!

  • Stunt Doubles
Let's face it- some improvers are better than others. So, in order to protect these two extraordinary improvers in this pillow factory, we've hired a couple bums off the street to take the falls for them.

  • Superhero Eulogy
"We're gathered here to mourn the loss of a great hero...
......Princess Adhesive, we'll miss you!"

  • Survivor
5 people do a scene.
4 people do a 5-person scene.
3 people do a 5-person scene.
2 people do a 5-person scene.
1 person kills himself.

  • Three Monologues
Something happened and these three people have their own stories to tell about it.

  • Wrong!
Denial is bad in improv. WRONG! Denial is good in improv? WRONG! Denial is deriver in deEgypt. Ok? Now where was the scene going before we were so rudely interrupted?


These are by no means all of the games we play...or even all the ones we know. Look for a complete list at LTT! shows in the near future...by which I mean that we'll play the games, not hand out manuals describing the rules, you understand?...Drat. There went my succinct ending to the page.
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