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It’s no joke

Well, my family did indeed go to see Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood (from “Whose Line Is It Anyway?“) in their two-man improv comedy show. If you’ve never seen “Whose Line,” you may at least be familiar with Colin Mochrie as the bald(ing?), tutu-clad “Snack Fairy” from the Nabisco ads.

We left yesterday afternoon and got to Ft. Myers when it was getting to be dark. Searching for a quick bite to eat, we stopped at Fortino’s Pizza, which had an Italian buffet that was expensive but good. When we got to the theater, we discovered that the stage door was hardly hidden or out of the way. We parked right by it and went into the theater, ready for a rousing, improvised show. Inside the theater we saw Leslie (“anaerosmithchick”), whom we had previously seen after the Improv All-Stars show in Sarasota last year. She and my sister know each other because they frequent the Colin Mochrie and Greg Proops message boards. Once again, she brought her son Tony, who is a “Whose Line” fan as well.

The show was great; I was laughing nonstop throughout the whole thing. It featured some of the improv games from “Whose Line” and some that they never did on the show. An example of the latter was “Interrogation.” Brad sent Colin out of the theater (with an audience member to make sure he wasn’t listening in) and had the audience come up with an outrageous “crime” that Colin would have to confess to, with Brad giving (sometimes) subtle hints in his conversation. When Brad asked for a Native-American-sounding name for the town where the crime took place, he chose my sister from the sea of raised hands. She said “Pahokee,” a town we passed through or near on the way to the show. Brad had quite a time remembering it and getting Colin to guess it.

After the show we went toward the stage door (which was practically next to the exit). After a few minutes, someone told the small group of fans to form a line, and then Colin and Brad came out. We didn’t have time to say much to them, but I wasn’t sure what I would have said anyway. I didn’t want to say something like “zomg i <3 whose line” because I’m pretty sure that I conveyed that message well, being one of the small group of autograph seekers hanging out after the show. I told Colin that they put on a great show, and he said “Thank you.” Then, after the two of them signed some autographs for us, my sister and I posed with them for the obligatory picture. After that, in good spirits, we headed home.

As a side note, you can see why I don’t smile for pictures a lot. I end up looking like an evil woman. But I’m smiling, really. And I’m not a woman. Stop making fun of me.

Does anyone want to try cooking an egg with cell phones and a radio? I don’t know how it could work, but apparently it does. And no, it’s not an April Fool’s joke.

Here’s a list of handy French phrases, with a pronunciation key and sorted by category.

One year ago: “I have no plans on getting into LJ or MySpace (I’d assume the abbreviation MS would be ambiguous).”
Two years ago: “I personally saw a large anarchy sign drawn on the floor in one of my classrooms and the words ‘BLAME CANADA’ scrawled over a door.”