The Comedy Show @Improv Asylum

As far as it's a very American stuff, I didn't plan to miss it. :p

Location: The Improv Asylum was located in Little Italy.

Inside Improv Asylum.

This was how the stage looked like.

After the show, we went to Mike's Pastry. The pastry was really good.

Briefly put, the word "Improv" was derived from "improvisation." And an improvisation comedy was a comedy show in which the audience could actually participate. The actors would consult the audience for tips and turn them into a hilarious impromptu show. It was absolutely amazing, and challenging as well, for unlike in English classes, the actors would not slow down the way they speak only because part of the audience were foreigners.

The comedy, of course, reflected the social reality. "This is a story about a boy-girl." "Welcome to Massachusetts!" Gay marriage, trans-sexual, paranoia; and what Professor 寶儀 (my English Composition instructor) said flashed across my mind (as we were talking about an episode in Gimme Gimme) : A good comedy deals with heavy issues, while it makes people laugh, it drives people to think as well. Also I thought of Professor Vasileios Vagios, (one of the teachers in Literary Criticism class) who once requested us to come up with the social functions of a poet.

This show was definitely witty, it just never occurred to me that it could be that thought-provoking, that complimentary to what I had learned as a DFLL major as well. :)