FIU

Thursday September 25th.

Florida International University.

Ah North Miami Beach, there is nothing like it, except driving here where people are nuts and no one knows how to drive but hey at least they look good doing it.

Our hotel is right on the beach, nice pool, nice tiki bar, and skill crane. The rooms are straight off the set of Miami Vice but you don’t stay on Miami Beach for the room. Everyone was pretty beat so we did the right thing by getting some drinks at the Tiki Bar and explaining to the bartender that we were not a boy band (plus we are not good looking enough to pass for one, well maybe one that performs at county fairs).

Miami is a great place for improv, they have a professional group “Just the Funny” a great bunch of people, extremely funny and they put on the Miami Improv Festival which rules and is the first place I saw: Bassprov, Pimprov and one of my improv heroes Jeremey Sosenko. Also, just up the street in West Palm is the group MOD 27 which is headed by an UF alum Tom O’Donell who runs the Gainesville Improv Festival and who continues to spread the love of improv down south. Thanks Tom

That being said, a lot of people are exposed to improv down here and are exposed to very good improv on a consistent basis. Most of the students at FIU had either seen long form improv or performed improv of some kind.

Our show was scheduled a little bit earlier because we were opening for a hypnotist. The hypnotist was named HYPNO BRO and he has performed around the US and was featured on B.E.T.

It is tough opening because you want to get the crowd fired up, all of the students were initially sitting in the back like most people do at a show like this but the show itself was awesome and the crowd went crazy.

We started off with a game called Accents where we do a scene and then perform that scene with three Accents provided by our audience, one accent is regional, one international and one that is just weird like Chewbacca or ET. The Accents we got from the audience were: New England, Jamaican, and Pikachu LIL Wayne. NICE !!!!!

The crowd went nuts, just pandemonium. When Kyle did Pikachu LIL Wayne the audience lost their shit. WE WON

What a great crowd, these students ruled, they were great sports and HYPNO Bro brought down the house and he did such an awesome job.

We hung out with the students a bit talking with them and then our group headed back to the hotel to have a couple beers and get some rest before the early flight back to Chicago.
What a great trip to Florida, I can’t wait to go back to these schools and it really energizes and old man like me when have killer shows like this.