GCI commandeers a new address!!!

We've made it easier for you to keep up with your friendly neighborhood improv troupe: go to www.gevacomedyimprov.org for all the deets and info on GCI! We're still updating dates and bios and stuff for Season III, so check back often and tell your peeps and fams!

Show and tell: above, you see CHARLEY performing with the University of Rochester's In Between the Lines improv troupe last night, their first show of the season. The crowd? Gigantinormous. Below, PAUL, TIM, and ADAM after a rehearsal to prepare for the Theatre Sports World Domination Tournament in Atlanta!!!!

 

TheatreSports World Domination Tournament

Dad's Garage is hosting the World Domination Tournament down in Atlanta and we're really excited -- Geva Comedy Improv is going down to participate!!!! PAUL, ADAM, and TIM are gonna rep-ah-zent the R-O-C and see improvisors from Los Angeles, Edmonton, the infamous IRON COBRA from Toronto, and Austria! Should be fun...get your plane tickets! The Tourney starts on August 31st!!!

Here's the vibe from Dad's: "The world's best teams converge on Atlanta for the heaviest Comedy improv throw-down in the Western hemisphere. In this battle of giants, only one team will raise the coveted trophy in absolute victory."

Loch Ness Monster?

Could it have been found? Should GCI send a team to investigate? Where did I put that granola bar? These questions and more NEED to be answered.

The Evidence found in China

The creature (seen above)

The men who will hopefully solve this mystery:

more summer vacations!

More summertime fun from Team GCI -- on top, TIM gets more hiking done; in the middle, members of the Crewe of Geva have a post-go-carting snack at the Official Post-GCI Go-Cart Party House Dibella's; on the bottom, the aforementioned go-carting...is CHRIS taking the lead in the Budweiser 8?

Picture Haiku

These five men are odd
We Fear the Evil Genius
That is GCI

Roger Ebert's Theory of Comedy

I found this review while I was browsing the internet for new movie suggestions. Roger Ebert reviews The Jerk, that zany Steve Martin movie. He doesn't like it because it is a Funny Hat movie as opposed to a Funny Logic movie.

"It seems to me that there are two basic approaches to any kind of comedy, and in a burst of oversimplification I'll call them the Funny Hat and the Funny Logic approaches. The difference is elementary: In the first, we're supposed to laugh because the comic is wearing the funny hat, and in the second it's funny because of his reasons for wearing the funny hat. " -RE

I don't totally agree with his review, but his theory of comedy is interesting. Perhaps it is incomplete and oversimplified (hint: it is), but it is still an interesting point.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19790601/REVIEWS/50601003/1023

~Adam

Summer Vacations, big and small!

Well, the season's over and now members of your friendly neighborhood improv team can relax and enjoy the kind of things that people enjoy during those dog days of summer! Above you can see CHRIS and the 2004 Micetro champ SHAWNDA hocking their liveables at a garage sale to benefit their upcoming move to Philly! Below you see MIRANDA and Gorilla Theatre champ PAUL helping musical improvisor -- and member of Mountain Mojo Authority -- ARTHUR get into a mohawk.

Paul Nellis -- GORILLA CHAMP!

Thanks to everyone that came and saw our shows this weekend. Once again, the support we get from the Western New York area is absolutely fantastic and appreciated. Friday Night's Theatre Sports was fast and furious, with GEVA LAS VEGAS taking home the last Theatre Sports trophy of the year! Saturday? PAUL rose above the chaff and was the wheat of our Gorilla Theatre! Thanks again to everyone, and it's been a great season of laughs and improv! Stay tuned here for more deets about our summer plans, and we'll see you in the Nexstage in October!

GCI readies itself -- the last weekend of shows!!!

BRIAN and friend-of-GCI MIKE ready themselves for our much-touted Late Night Thursday rehearsal! Get your tickets for tonight's THEATRE SPORTS or tomorrow's GORILLA THEATRE! Both shows are at 10:30 pm, and tickets are only $7 each! Get them at www.gevatheatre.org or 232-Geva (4382)!!!!

GCI gets its rehearsal on for this weekend!

Platforms, tilts, relationships...GCI is rehearsing how to take your suggestions and make them into drop-jawed awesome entertainment! Got your tickets for this weekend's shows? Get them now at 232-Geva or www.gevatheatre.org!


MOOKIE and TIM make it up -- right there!

BEKI and ARTHUR watch the action. Furious!

ADAM prepares to throw in our dodge ball warm-up.

Directions to Geva Comedy Improv.

We at Geva Comedy Improv understand that going downtown is a bit harrowing an experience for some of you fans, so we've decided to make it easier for you, by using the ULTRA-SWEET Google Earth. Feel free to take notes.


Let's start out at the planet Earth. If you're heading out of the solar system, it's the third planet, just past Venus. Ours is the one with the lawn ornament made of green cheese.


Head for North America. If you're unsure, just listen for the sound of my friend's muffler, which he continually contends is loud enough to be heard from space. Look for the big lakes.


Move towards the last lake on the right. You can tell which one it is by looking for the bustling activity of tourism that's brought from the fast ferry.


Here's where it gets a little tricky. If you're looking at a city that's old, delapidated, and reeling from the lack of "hip," you're heading towards Buffalo. Ours is the clean, bright city that can't keep the 25-35 set interested in anything but bitching about how Rochester has nothing interesting for the 25-35 set.


Rochester was founded right after the last Ice Age by some humble, planet-loving Native Americans, whose 25-35 set was quite happy. Then came Colonel Nathaniel Rochester and his plucky comic relief of a neighbor, George "Eastman" Kodak. Rochester was very surprised to have found a place already named after him, and settled in. The Native Americans' 25-35 set immediately began to grumble.


And here we are. The white-topped building in the center is Geva Theatre Center. Please enjoy your stay, and don't forget to boo the judge. If you're still unsure how to get here, go to www.gevatheatre.org.

Friday Night at the Record Store.

*sigh* everyone else is prolly out enjoying Friday, and I'm stuck with people who can't seem to realize that "alphabetical" means that Earth Wind and Fire would be after the Dramatics.

Here's how I'm wasting my time:
bird snatchers
weird...blocks...thing

-tim

 

GCI readies itself for greatness next weekend.

Hey -- another round of shows next weekend!!! Friday Night -- the 15th -- is another chapter in the ever-epic novel called THEATRE SPORTS...here's the schedule!!!

Host - Adam
Judge - Brian
Music - Jim and Arthur
Team 1 - Tim, Mookie, Shawnda
Team 2 - Paul, Chris, Beki

Saturday Night is Gorilla Theatre, so prepare yourself for another evening of fantastic scenes directed by your favorite improvisors, based on suggestions supplied by YOU!!! Click HERE for more information on Gorilla Theatre, and click HERE for tickets!!! See you then!

Ahhh...Football

I know that there are far more important things going on in the world today, but this short list caught my attention. I have had CNN and BBC News hanging out on my toolbar all day long and happened to notice this link on CNN's main to the Sports Illustrated site and was reminded why sports can be great. People have told me that sports are stupid and that people are wasting their time getting excited about a game. They may have a point...Especially with our bobblehead selling, performance enhancing, over sponsored and over produced televised spectacles. Then I read this short list of the top five NFL training camps. I realized that these nay sayers are wrong. They are either bitter ex-fans, whose favorite teams lost site of their fans base or my favorite type of people - those who think that their personal priorities should be society's priority.

Oh, and my Steelers made the top of the list. Actually both Pennsylvania teams made the list. The Bills just lost out, but were beaten by Carolina. In the words of Bill Cowher, "Four weeks of being together, no distractions, everything within walking distance. Nothing but football. Nothing." The single minded pursuit of excellence will always attract attention. Even if it is a silly game.

http://http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/peter_king/07/06/training.camps/index.html?cnn=yes

~Adam