Nuuuuuu Play Published Yesterday by IAACM: Is this funny? Your feedback is needed!
It is the year 2191. Is it getting weird… Or not? Latest flick:
Ghost Busters Sequuuuuel 42
A World
Thanks Itself:
Or: How to Have a Huge Achooooo!
(Imagine Improvving The Biggest O)
Characters (shown here, Leonard Roy Frank, the late activist, author, psych survivor, friend, whose birthday would have been 15 July but he died, and that date is now the Ghostbusters sequel latest release; circumstances, such as his death, are making Leonard the first Ghost buster and his birthday the end of creative maladjustment week:
Gaston and Alphonse (played by anyone everywhere)
Pooch Adams (not to be confused with Patch Adams, MD)
Jolly R-r-r-r-rogers (played by David Rogers)
Romeo the Red Parrot (played by Jillian Littell)
The Mad Manister (played by Rev. Phil Schulman)
Mad Genius Scientist (played by Ian McTeague)
Fruit & Nuts (played by Alter-Abled, Doors, etc.)
Aluna “LG” Moth (played by David W. Oaks)
All Earth is a Fair
Norm Al Itty (played by himself)
Elder Brother (played by Several Generations)
[IMPROV SCENARIOS FOR YOU! EVERYWHERE & ANYWHERE.]
[Two enthusiastic male ghosts encourage each other, in front of crowds and audiences at shopping places and gatherings. Use exaggerated gestures, smiles, your friendly Nuuuuu Vaudeville explains why global revolution has not started on time!]
GASTON: “After you, Alphonse!” [Pause for a beat.]
ALPHONSE: “After you, Gaston!” [Pause for another beat. The two busters continue to look each other in the eye, and get louder.]
GASTON: “After you, Alphonse!”
ALPHONSE: “After you, Gaston!”
GASTON: “After you, Alphonse!”
ALPHONSE: “After you, Gaston!”
GASTON: “After you, Alphonse!”
ALPHONSE: “After you, Gaston!” [KEEP LOOPING UNTIL…]
[POOCH ADAMS JUMPS UP. HE STARES INTO EVERYONE’S EYES AND TELLS THE AUDIENCE:]
POOCH: “ARF! ARF ARF ARF! Hello 2191! Hello world! You are seven generations ahead of a very weird time period. Suicide was not funny! Hunter S. Thompson said then ’When the going gets weird, the weird get going.’ Was it funny when he killed himself and had his ashes blasted up by a cannon? They were into self slaughter back then! But I howled that black lives truly mattered. When you hear the other N-word, Normality, please howl. I have seen some of the best minds of my generation, Generation Not Dead Yet, destroyed by what shall now be called Norm Al Itty.”
[VILLAGE ACTION. Jolly R-r-r-r-rogers kicks things off by improvving with the following scenario, reading proclamation:]
“THIS IS A PROCLAMATION FROM THE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION! You may already have won! The Love Earth Revolution begins now! You may call it by any name! It is only a game. Or is it? It was not televised but is now hereby visible. First do no harm! Now Now Now Now Now Now Now! We all all all all all all must thank everyone, the workers here and the crowd, and every particle. We share this golden thread to thank everyone because we are connected! Henceforth WHO will merge with International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment.”
[ROMEO TIES THE ENDS OF GOLD THREADS TOGETHER. SPOOLS ARE SENT OUT.]
[POOCH CONTINUES:]“We must prepare for our emergencies because everyone will have at least two, like elbows. To prepare we need strong smart communities. And humor can help build that. We need to thank each other! Gesundheit Institute knows that Lithuanian for ‘thanks’ is the Lithuanian word that sounds like a ‘achoo!’ like a sneeze.
“Everyone, you are hanging on the edge of a cliff, you are hanging by this thread. Given the time, we need to do the impossible! Maybe do not sneeze now?”
[HEY, HOW ABOUT A LOVE PEACE REVOLUTION? WHO IS FOR THAT? ALARMS (SUCH AS BIKE HORNS) SEND OUT PULSE:]
[CROWD PRETENDS TO HAVE THE BIGGEST O IMAGINABLE, WITH A LONG FORPLAY:] “Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah… ah-ah-ah-ah-ah… ah-ah-ah-ah-ah… A-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h.”
[THE IMPROV CLIMAX:] “Choo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o!”
[CROWD THANKS EACH OTHER AND SELVES LIKE CRAZY.]
“Thank you everybody! And listen for the pulse of your golden thread!”
[ANY ATTORNEYS PRESENT OR ALL IF NONE PRESENT GET THE PREDICTED PUNCH LINE AFTER HEARING THE BIG O:]
“I’ll have what they’re having!”
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