I've been running Toddler Tuesdays this month at my local art gallery and I must tell you, I get ten times more nervous about working with a room full of toddlers than any stand-up gig. This is because:
a) Kids are NEVER afraid to heckle; and
b) When toddlers do heckle, not only do you possess neither the microphone or the permission of the audience to put said heckler in their place, but you have to be nice.
Not that I've been heckled yet. But I always get nervous that I might be. So there you go, moan, moan, moan and all about nothing. Overall I've actually been really enjoying it - the kids are mostly really cute and this morning I even got to meet a little girl with a teddy bear named Buffy. Now THAT is cool.
And...the interview with ABC radio was rather enjoyable (even if I did have to organise to do it by phone at the last minute when my child-minding options went down the metaphorical toilet). My sister taped it for me so eventually I'll get around to transcribing it and pop it up on me ole' website for all of you to read (except for Aussie in the Orient, who lives in China where my website is apparently banned. Rock on Wyntertainment!!! Offending communists since 1979...)
I even got a phonecall straight after the interview from Kelly Devine-Higgins, asking if she could get me into the studio again for a follow-up interview once I get back in August.
So rocka rocka RAR!!! (Sorry, that used to be a cool war-cry. I've gotta stop living in the past...)
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Unfortunately I missed your interview. However I did have the following exchange with my father today:
"(Insert embarassing nickname here)! Do you know a girl called Shelley Winters?"
"What, the actress? Star of The Poseidon Adventure? Died just recently?"
"No! SHELLEY Winters"
"Um...."
"She does IMPRO!"
"Oh...possibly...Jenny Wynter?"
"That's it! She was on the radio, talking about going to America to do IMPRO and comedy, and how she's going to come back and teach you how to do impro, and how she's got two kids and wants to get pregnant again when she comes back."
"...Right. Well, I've never actually met her but I know who you're talking about."
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Anyway, you've never met my dear old Dad, so you wouldn't get just how amusing the exchange was. ;) Congrats on the interview.
Yes I second that, Congrats on the interview. I would have loved to be able to hear it, but my consolation prize is a personal mention on your blog- I can feel the fame rubbing off on me already! If it wasn't so damn sweaty and hot here I'd vow never to shower again.
But never fear, although your website IS blocked here (way to go, girl!), so is blogspot, and I still get my sticky little fingers into that... as they say [in a sultry Old Soviet voice]: "I 'ave my vayz"...
Hi, I found you through Rock Star Mom, and I love your blog!! I'll be coming back!
Well I manage to listen to your interview during the afternoon while I was on the Bus. Very different from listening to you on 4ZZZ. You have done well to look after your children with the table of food.
I guess if you head into the ABC studio when you come back from the USA they will no doubt have enough headphones to go around and maybe you could obtain a few for 4ZZZ ;) .
Yay for comments!! They always make me feel so loved in a way that snotty children just cannot... ;-)
GirlClumsy - that's hilarious! Especially the 'she's gonna teach you how to do impro' bit, cos you know, that's me, Captain Impro... not. And don't worry, my mum calls me Shelley Winters all the time.
Louise - Glad you've opted for the route of personal hygiene. I'd hate to have anybody smelling on MY account.
Kristen - that has made my day. :-)
Huggies - Hmmm....stealing from the underfunded to give to the underfunded. I think you may be onto something!! And I'm curious: how do you reckon I sounded different? (I'm sure I did, I'd just like to hear more about myself cos you know, I'm vain like that.)
Hi Comic Mummy,
A good come back to little kids is "Mmmm, yes, but I get to eat as many lollies as I like, all the time, and my muumy doesn't say a thing."
Best of luck in the USA, I know you will rock. Some time soon we will have to network Improv games. Have you heard of Catch 23?
HooRoo
Rebecca
Rebecca - thanks, that's a beauty! (Oh boy, with expressions like that I'll almost certainly be reinforcing Aussie stereotypes abroad. Noooo!)
Catch 23 - no I haven't heard of it. Please so enlighten me, oh fellow impro-addict!
I think for starters I was listening to you on the AM frequency as opposed to FM.
I guess the fact that you were talking to Kelly via telephone rather then being in the studio had something to do with it.
Also the fact that Alex (I think that he is name) wasn't there and you wern't doing your altered ego Mrs Sorenson might have something to do with it.
Hi Comic Mummy,
Sorry, was doing my hair, hence it took so long to get back to you.
Just remember when telling the kids that line, you have to be as wide eyed and excitedly contained as can be. I think you will know the look. It's the look and voice of reading a "Where's Spot" book to a 6 month old.
Anyway, Catch 23 comes from Canada, there is a group there who do it, and we have stolen it. You break up into teams of three or four, and each group has 23 minutes, split over four rounds to do their thing. How it works is each team gets to pick the games they want to play, as it happens each round. When the scene starts, the clock starts, scene finishes, clock finishes, and they have the time used taken off their total time left. Each round the audience votes on a score out of 5 for how good the scene was.
At the final round, each team finds out how much time they have left, and their final scene can not go over time, even if they are mid scene, it just ends, we do it by killing the lights.
It really gets the audience involved and is a lot of fun. One night we had one group with 11 minutes left for the final game (so they did a Harold), and another group had 15 seconds left, so they did a Tomb of Answers, in which we didn't get to hear the answer because their time had ended.
If you want to workshop things via email, just let me know bec@trampanto.com
HooRoo
Rebecca
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