This Show Is Not Funny: with guests Aubrey Plaza, Alice Wetterlund, and Brad Morris
I found out about this show a few days before, so the tickets were sold out, by then. I was super bummed and was very tempted to go super early to UCB Sunset and try to be the first on the waitlist, but that would be stupid because it’s at 10:30 PM and I don’t drive. I ended up scoring a ticket the day of and it was amazing.
The show is about improvising scenes and actually acting. It’s not about being funny (though it ended up being hilarious). Luka Jones, Casey Feigh, and Mary Holland make the cast and then they have guests join them in the acting. Tuesday’s guest were Aubrey Plaza, Alice Wetterlund, and Brad Morris.
They start off with a scene with everyone and take a suggestion of a setting from the audience. It was “supermarket”. Aubrey and Brad played a couple of 19 year olds who were going to buy condoms, but got nervous and bought cigarettes instead, just to go back and actually buy the condoms. Aubrey pushed Brad to buy them, so he could “teach her intercourse.”
Then they split off into pairs and do a scene per pair. Aubrey was paired with Casey and they ended up playing a mother and son. Aubrey took apart animals (or something like that, Casey said his classmates called her what she did “zooporn”) for a living and Casey was a middle school student who was being bullied. They had a good relationship because Casey’s dad was not in the picture. Aubrey moved her and Casey around a lot because she “needed to be inspired” and may be a slight alcoholic.
The last scene was with the whole cast and they got the suggestion of “locker room” for a setting. Aubrey, Casey, Mary, Brad, and Luka were players of a basketball team that was losing by 42 (I think) at half time and Alice was the coach. Alice said they were losing because they weren’t having fun, so she asks them what’s fun about basketball to them. Johnson (Aubrey) said “Being on D, being super aggressive, getting in people’s fucking faces, taking shit down.” It was great, at one point Mary and Casey got into a fight and were punching each other and rolling around on the floor, being egged on by Aubrey and Luka, while trying to get separated by Alice and Brad.
The show was hilarious and awesome. I’m so glad I was able to go, even though I had to take an uber (for the first time ever and it was by myself) at like midnight. It was totally worth it! 🙌🏼👍🏼👌🏼😁😍😘💘
