Michael Scarn, FBI
by kavakristin
Every time I think about improv lately, I think about Steve Carrel’s character, Michael Scott, in the tv show The Office, and why his character is so bad at improv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY6zTFnNS-A). Today, and on the first day of class, the instructors posted the four points/tenants of improv: 1. Listen, 2. Say yes, 3. Make my partner look good, and 4. Embrace my inner spontaneity. Michael manages to fail extraordinarily at all four. He does not listen to his fellow improv-ers and constantly relies on them always saying “yes” to his incessant secret-agent gun shooting sprees. Because of this, no one in his group wants to act with him. He provides the perfect example of how not to improv, and yet in doing so, is provides a pretty hilarious clip.
I’m very happy to say that my improv experience has been much more fun than Michael’s poor classmates, and I think this will be a great quarter of listening, making our classmates look good, embracing our inner spontaneity, and, most importantly, saying yes.
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LOL! I love how his fellow improvisers still continue to say “yes” and fall over dead when he shoots them with his improv-gun despite the fact that he’s being a total jerk.
This is somewhat unrelated but I’m reminded of the Argument Sketch by Monty Python. They’ll teach you in comedy classes that its bad form to have an argument with your partner in a scene but they totally flout this rule to produce this rather rebellious sketch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvcnx6-0GhA