Date Posted:21:46:08 06/11/03 Wed Author: Michael R Subject: Re: anyone been to improv all stars yet?? In reply to:
MLS
's message, "anyone been to improv all stars yet??" on 19:47:49 06/06/03 Fri
>Wednesday, June 11, Banff, Alebrta, The Eric Harvie Theatre.
Absolutley the best, brilliant laugh I've had since seeing There's Something About mary for the first time. Chip Estes is unbelievable. Near the last part of the hour and a half show, Chip, Brad and Jeff Davis performed the CD songs bit with "red roses for you - bitch" in the syle of Dion and the Belmonts, A killer Doors routine about "a pot full of weeds" with all of them doing their outrageous Jim Morrison drunk on stage impressions. Chip actually fell off the stage into the audience as they each belted out rambling, inebreated Morrisonesque poetry about weeds. Then the last CD tune was a hilarious sendup of n'sync, etc as a boy band gone wild. Best Line from Colin: Hey, Colin, what do you get when you mix boys with bands? asks Ryan. Big pause... That should be good for about 12 years. deadpans Colin.
What we don't see on TV is everyone else howling with laughter as their comrades make funny. This troupe of eight seemed to have as much of a ball as the 1000 capacity audience.
Kathy Kinney was surpisingly good, better than her turns on WLIIA. The big surprise, for me, was Jeff Davis. He was up to speed and held his own or surpassed the fireplugs, Chip and Brad. This, too, has not come across on the tv show. Missing was Greg and Wayne. They were replaced by one of the Drew Carey writers and someone else who, I'm really sorry, can't recall their names.
It was a laugh fest from the firsy moment to the last. Catch this gang if you can.
