Friday night, Juan, Mark and I spent the evening with friends at Comedy Sportz in downtown Indianapolis for A Christmas Carol Unscripted. We spent a couple hours laughing very hard. When you go to an unscripted night at Comedy Sportz on Mass Ave, you should expect the unexpected.
First of all you need to be 17 years old to enter and it is one of the few events that they allow inappropriate and suggestive language. Mark and John were pumped to et a good earful.
This is how it works. When you enter the club there are two buckets on stage. In each bucket, the audience places pieces of paper which they have written funny movie lines, song lyrics, funny sayings, silly phrases, etc. Once the show begins, the audience is given several opportunities when actors intentionally pause for input. The show however is based on A Christmas Carol and Scrooge will see his 3 ghosts. During our show, Scrooge was a pimp based on audience input. During the show, the actors take a slip from time to time to lead the evening script.
The first half of the show was hilarious. The second half not so much as there were younger audience members who put in more comments in the buckets during the break. After a while you get kinda tired of hearing about male body parts. Even the actor stated he thought too many slips were written by a 19 year old. Katie being prepared for the night had her slips of paper prepared before arrived, typed. Me, I had quite a few that I wrote before the show started but there were so many slips that I never heard any of my comments. I was anxious to see how they would fit in saying "Life is like a box of chocolates."
I enjoy going to this annual holiday event. In the spring they will have another unscripted show. Last year it was Cinderella. If you are in town during that time, make sure you get a reservation.
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