Feeling smug? Think pointless stunts help people appreciate life more?

[Pidgeon]

Yeah, because no one's heard of anything before unless Tom talks about it.

no, we just decide how we really feel once Tom weighs in.

My feelings about IE are actually Ira Glass's fault.

yeah Internet Explorer sucks

wait, what are we talking about again?

The "IE" in that post actually stands for "Improv Everywhere."

JOKES!

thanks though

Oh, OK. Pretty funny!

[amiright??]

Yeah, because no one's heard of anything before unless Tom talks about it.

no, we just decide how we really feel once Tom weighs in.

My feelings about IE are actually Ira Glass's fault.

yeah Internet Explorer sucks

wait, what are we talking about again?

The "IE" in that post actually stands for "Improv Everywhere."

JOKES!

thanks though

Alex, you just got IMPROV'D!

[effecT]

Yeah, because no one's heard of anything before unless Tom talks about it.

no, we just decide how we really feel once Tom weighs in.

My feelings about IE are actually Ira Glass's fault.

yeah Internet Explorer sucks

wait, what are we talking about again?

The "IE" in that post actually stands for "Improv Everywhere."

JOKES!

thanks though

Alex, you just got IMPROV'D!

MORE QUOTES!

[Louis Lame]

IE bug me to no end but I will admit to liking what they did to a little league game in Florida.

Riding the train with no pants? Stay home, weirdo. You are only amusing yourself.

Haha this is actually pretty wonderful but yea f ze improvs

[Alex_from_the_woods]

I've been doing guerrilla improv for a while but I tend to work alone. My latest piece is on the inherent nihilism of corporate culture. I begin the performance by showing up for work on time. Then I check my email in a disinterested way- responding to anything urgent with faux concern. Then I read Huff post for an hour or two, taking care to click on any headings with the words "outrage" "horror" or "naked". Items involving pets get clicked next. If any of the public approach I quickly click back to email- but not so quickly that they don't see what's going on. The hypocrisy of an employee of a company that makes huge sums of money from TV being ashamed of looking at crap is often lost on these philistines. I then fill out the day half listening to meetings and generally being as uncooperative and difficult as possible.

No applause at the end of a performance so far but that's not what this kind of art is about. Despite this I'm sure I'm making a difference.

[mostlymeat]

I've been doing guerrilla improv for a while but I tend to work alone. My latest piece is on the inherent nihilism of corporate culture. I begin the performance by showing up for work on time. Then I check my email in a disinterested way- responding to anything urgent with faux concern. Then I read Huff post for an hour or two, taking care to click on any headings with the words "outrage" "horror" or "naked". Items involving pets get clicked next. If any of the public approach I quickly click back to email- but not so quickly that they don't see what's going on. The hypocrisy of an employee of a company that makes huge sums of money from TV being ashamed of looking at crap is often lost on these philistines. I then fill out the day half listening to meetings and generally being as uncooperative and difficult as possible.

No applause at the end of a performance so far but that's not what this kind of art is about. Despite this I'm sure I'm making a difference.

Well done! Subversive and eye-opening! Those cattle will learn their lesson someday.....

[Paydirt!]

IE bug me to no end but I will admit to liking what they did to a little league game in Florida.

I have been looking through all the descriptions and photos of their missions (feel free to add quote marks and the word "so-called") just to try and figure out why I really like that Little League one but everything else makes my blood boil. I think I've worked it out! It's when these things are executed in a place where:

(a) somebody is doing their job, whether or not said job is being actively hindered; or
(b) somebody could conceivably be trying to stay in their own personal "zone".

Nobody is putting in a mind-numbing eight-hour work day at a Little League game; similarly, nobody goes to the Little League game just to eat their lunch and keep their head down and try and tune everything out. The same goes for this little thing on stage at the start of a Ben Folds concert, but only because the security guards were in on the whole thing.

But filling a Best Buy with fake employees, for example, is just tedious time-wasting, and there's something especially unpleasant about the "management and security guards as fun police" tone of the writing. The rest of them aren't quite so horrible, but still: live comedy is happening in front of you, at a time in your day when you are not expecting it or in the mood for it, and you cannot turn it off. I don't like it.

[senorcorazon]

I've been doing guerrilla improv for a while but I tend to work alone. My latest piece is on the inherent nihilism of corporate culture. I begin the performance by showing up for work on time. Then I check my email in a disinterested way- responding to anything urgent with faux concern. Then I read Huff post for an hour or two, taking care to click on any headings with the words "outrage" "horror" or "naked". Items involving pets get clicked next. If any of the public approach I quickly click back to email- but not so quickly that they don't see what's going on. The hypocrisy of an employee of a company that makes huge sums of money from TV being ashamed of looking at crap is often lost on these philistines. I then fill out the day half listening to meetings and generally being as uncooperative and difficult as possible.

No applause at the end of a performance so far but that's not what this kind of art is about. Despite this I'm sure I'm making a difference.

Well done! Subversive and eye-opening! Those cattle will learn their lesson someday.....

Derivative! I've been doing this performance for over a decade in at least 8 different locations. I WILL SEE YOU IN COURT.

[Alex_from_the_woods]

I've been doing guerrilla improv for a while but I tend to work alone. My latest piece is on the inherent nihilism of corporate culture. I begin the performance by showing up for work on time. Then I check my email in a disinterested way- responding to anything urgent with faux concern. Then I read Huff post for an hour or two, taking care to click on any headings with the words "outrage" "horror" or "naked". Items involving pets get clicked next. If any of the public approach I quickly click back to email- but not so quickly that they don't see what's going on. The hypocrisy of an employee of a company that makes huge sums of money from TV being ashamed of looking at crap is often lost on these philistines. I then fill out the day half listening to meetings and generally being as uncooperative and difficult as possible.

No applause at the end of a performance so far but that's not what this kind of art is about. Despite this I'm sure I'm making a difference.

Well done! Subversive and eye-opening! Those cattle will learn their lesson someday.....

Derivative! I've been doing this performance for over a decade in at least 8 different locations. I WILL SEE YOU IN COURT.

ah...but I perform it in my inimitable Pre-post-modenernistic-neo-dada-abstract-realistic style. Choke on that- finger painter!