The Buzz Intro Interview - K.I.S.S. (Kennesaw Improv Society, Stupid!)
Respondent: Jamie Bullins, Coordinator.
Name of Company: KISS
Name of Show: A-Live 2016
“Improv may be basically “made up on the spot”, but there’s a great deal of trust and camaraderie that is necessary to step out on such a trepidatious limb. Hell, people could laugh at you.”
1. Why should anybody see your show?
The unexpected is to be expected. Some, if not all, will be funny and help leave all that day-to- day bullshit somewhere else. And, it’s cheaper than therapy.
2. Why Atlanta?
Where else? Literally, we’re just up the road a piece.
3. What inspired you to create this?
Improv is infectious. Once it’s in your system, you can’t get rid of it. There’s no cure. So, why not share it with as many people as you can?
4. Ahhh, we see what you did there. What’s your process for creating and rehearsing something like this?
It requires more time than one might imagine. It may be basically “made up on the spot”, but there’s a great deal of trust and camaraderie that is necessary to step out on such a trepidatious limb. Hell, people could laugh at you.
5. What have you learned from working on your show so far?
So far?
6. Tyler Perry, Jane Fonda, Killer Mike and NeNe Leakes roll up at your show. There is one ticket left. Who gets it?
Well, probably Jane Fonda. Who could turn Barbarella away? You’d have to point out NeNe if she showed up, never heard of her.
7. Atlanta’s foodie scene is really on point these days. What does your show taste like? (Bonus points if you can name-check an ATL restaurant.)
Doc Chey’s. That place is on point.
8. Fringes are the place to really push the boundaries so we gotta ask: would you want your parents in the front row or would you tell them, “Maybe skip this one, guys…”?
Yikes. I might send them to the aquarium instead.
Above: Whale sharks never disappoint their parents by taking a risque suggestion from the audience and running with it.
9. Will your show save mankind?
Absolutely. Without a good guffaw now and then we’re lost.
10. Oh boy! A mysterious benefactor gave you a million dollars after your first show! What do you do?
Pay improvisers a healthy wage. That shit is hard.
11. Describe your show in three words.
Unpredictable, wacky, huh?
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