Improv Everywhere Strikes Again!

[pinky]

On related news, I have heard whisper of a flash mob outside the stock exchange on April 1st.  I work near there, they have guns..  Big guns.   Bad Idea

[Matt C]

I heard Improv Everywhere was behind the AIG debacle in a prank gone wrong.

[Regular Joe]

I've always liked the Improv Everywhere stunt where people continually  board the subway without pants until the final stop when someone boards selling pants.  Do you guys not like pranks period or is it that Improv Everywhere's stunts are poorly designed?

Martin and scratchbomb said it very well right (as Tom did a while ago). I used to enjoy this kind of thing and I certainly don't frown on pranks in general. For instance, the McDonalds time loop prank was incredibly clever. This crosses a line when it goes from serving the regular joes of the world with laughter or spectacle and starts mocking them and impeding their day. The thing this group did that put me off them completely was when they staged a worldwide pillow fight, and then just left their destroyed pillow leavings on the ground (at least in Seattle). Hyper-privileged art school kids indeed!

[jbissell]

I used to be 100% PRO Improv Everywhere, but in the last couple of years I've turned on them ever so slightly. I still think some of their pranks are clever, rather innocent and funny - like the one with the guy at the baseball stadium who couldn't find his seat, or the recent one with high-fives on the escalator, or some of the more sketch-oriented ones like the one with the "suicide jumper". But I have issues with stuff like the subway art gallery or the Best Buy thing - totally agree with scratchbomb. They should think more about in which direction they point their prank gun.

Agreed, the should stick to harmless stuff like the food court musical.

[senorcorazon]

Okay, I have to give it to them on this one (via pscan):
http://improveverywhere.com/2009/04/01/best-funeral-ever/

[cutout]

Okay, I have to give it to them on this one (via pscan):
http://improveverywhere.com/2009/04/01/best-funeral-ever/

Wow, that one turned my stomach even more than the others. Especially the delusional ending -

The family members were left clueless as to who we were. They gawked as we walked away. Deep down though, you know they were profoundly moved to learn that their relative had so many friends.

[Bryan]

I'm hoping that this did not really happen, and that Improv Everywhere is playing an April Fool's joke. If not, then this is really creepy.

[Big Plastic Head]

Okay, I have to give it to them on this one (via pscan):
http://improveverywhere.com/2009/04/01/best-funeral-ever/

I call April Fools Joke. If not, somebody punch this "agent" in the dick.

[buffcoat]

Yeah, sounds like an April Fools' joke, and not a particularly clever one.  Although I hate these nimrods and their precious approach to the world so much that I am a very unreliable judge.


You'd probably still get away with this type of thing where I live, but I'd like to see these guys sentenced to practice their craft in, say, the Florida panhandle or the remote parts of Idaho - or the Congo.


"Annoying Improv Nerds Take on New Challenge: Improv-ing Being Dead."

[Jouster]

Yep, clearly a prank.  All those "shot through the bushes" pictures... as if a family in a basically abandoned graveyard wouldn't notice a guy lurking around with a camera.  Not a chance.

[senorcorazon]

this is really creepy.

I hope they understand that this distaste is what most of their "missions" make people feel.

[Bryan]

this is really creepy.

I hope they understand that this distaste is what most of their "missions" make people feel.

Now that I'm satisfied that this is not a real "mission" I think it's pretty funny, and may even be a sign of self-awareness.

[cutout]

I didn't blink at any of the online April Fools' jokes yesterday, yet I immediately assumed the self-congratulatory Improv Everywhere prank was authentic. I don't know if that says more about them or about me.

[Regular Joe]

I didn't blink at any of the online April Fools' jokes yesterday, yet I immediately assumed the self-congratulatory Improv Everywhere prank was authentic. I don't know if that says more about them or about me.

Them. Definitely them.

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No one else was tipped off when these were the family members at the funeral?