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My first comedy improv class

Today was my first comedy improv class with the Philly Improv Theater!  It was a blast.  Seriously I LOVED it.  It's small class.  There's about 10 people I think.  The range is everyone and anyone.  There's people of all different kinds of ages and that are there for just about any reason.  Some just for fun and some are trying to add to their other interests in acting or comedy or anything like that.

So today was mostly intro stuff.  We introduced ourselves and all that.  Then we played these fun introduction games.  Some of them got REALLY involved and we had to stop a few times to figure out where we were.

They were like those games where you get in a circle with everyone and you do this thing or that thing involving actions and names and memorizing what someone else did and copying it.  A lot of it involved mimicking and then changing and then showing to someone else.

Then we started pairing off and were shown other neat fun things.  I'd tell you what that was but it's the secret to improv and soooooooo if I give away the secret well... then it wouldn't be a secret!  Or something like that.

But some of the things with the class that I really liked were that we basically can just be SOOOOOOOOO super silly for 2 hours once we enter that room.

It's like feel free to do anything in the real world that people would make fun of you for or look at you weird.  THAT'S all completely awesome and acceptable and fantastic.  So I love that.  Because I feel like being silly and strange and funny and weird and whatever ALL the time!!! And people just look at me weird.

This is a judgement free zone and everyone is always supportive of everyone else.

It's just awesome.  I wish the WHOLE world was a judgement free zone and everyone was just super supportive of everyone else instead of talkin them down all the time!  I think I'm going to try and bring my into my whole life and try to just not judge people and not cut anyone down and just be completely supportive and cheer on everyone.

Just keep doing your thang everyone out there!  Don't let anything bring you down!  Just find your positive energy and go with it.  Keep doing what you love and let people that wanna hate waste their energy hating and having it just bounce off you like it's nothing.

That's what I'm a gonna do. 🙂  Let those that love me love me and those that don't want to be supportive and loving... can just go ahead and watch and judge and hope I fail... but I'll just give them love and support and cheer them on even if they hate me.

That's kinda the whole idea of the class.  Even if people fail you are supposed to just cheer them on no matter what.

One of the games we played involved us throwing around an imaginary ball and failing to catch it on purpose... but we all cheered each other on no matter what.  Even though no one could catch even the simplest toss of a ball we still just kept the cheering and clapping going on and and on telling everyone how awesome of a job they were doing.

I think that's just a great idea.  Like just be super supportive of people no matter what even if they can't do anything right... not even one thing.  Just keep being there for them and supporting them.

I love that idea and I want to try and keep that in my life from now on.

Oh ok... sooo anyways... I have to attend 2 comedy improv shows as part of the class.  So if anyone wants to go with me let me know!  That would totally be fun.

I'll keep everyone posted as to what goes on next week!