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to get audience suggestions in a way that we wont get the same thing over and over again. ... Weve sort of invented new games over the years because theres just the two of us, theres sort of a limited number of games we can play. So we are constantly workshopping new games. Unfortunately, when we workshop it, we have to do it in front of an audience and hope it works. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it doesnt. A&E: What are some of the newer games you're trying
out? Mochrie: You put me on the spot here. Well be doing sort Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood When: 3 p.m. Sunday Where: Weinberg Center for the Arts, 20 West Patrick St., Frederick Tickets: $35-$45 For information: 301-600-2828 or www.weinbergcenter.org A&E: So its not quite like [the Whose Line game] hoedown. Mochrie: Oh, God no. Nothings like hoedown. of a new game where its sort of rap-based, where we start doing a scene and, at any point in the scene, if [one] person thinks what the other person said sounds like a rap song, we go, Kick it, and we start doing a rap song until somebody says Word.
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Gazette.Net: Zany duo brings improv bits back to Frederick A&E: How many mousetraps do you tend to have on stage? Mochrie: It changes depending on venue to venue. ... Its always at least 100. A&E: I understand you have a book that is coming out this year, Not Quite the Classics. Mochrie: Yes. Technically, that is correct. Im supposed to have it finished by the end of this month. A&E: How is the writing going? Mochrie: Its horrible. I have quickly found throughout this process that I despise writing. A&E: What convinced you to write the book, then? Mochrie: I was so roped into it. My agent said, You know, you should write a book, and I replied, I don't feel like I have anything pressing to say. He got me a literary agent who hooked me up with Penguin Canada, so I said, Alright, I'm up for a challenge. So I was trying to figure out a way of writing a book in sort of an improvised style, so ... what I came up with is I used the first and last line of classic novels and I do a completely different middle. A&E: I know you were trying to write it with an improv mindset. Was there much revising? Mochrie: Oh God, yeah. A lot of editing. If you actually transcribed our improv scenes, they make no sense. Theyre not funny. They make absolutely no ... It truly is an art form where the comedy is of the moment. If you try to describe to friends an improv scene that you saw, its really hard to get that across why you were laughing. So as I was writing, I thought, Oh the improv is sort of a jumping off point, then its honing and editing. A&E: Do you see a connection between improv and stream of consciousness writing, which is partly what I imagined you were doing with the book? Mochrie: On stage your thing is you just accept what comes to you and you work from that, and Ive sort of been doing that also with this. There have been a couple of stories where I get to a point where I cant, I dont know what to do, where to go from, so I just kind of relax and sort of go back to the beginning and try again and find a different path to get to the same end. There are similarities between the two, but making up stuff on stage is much easier. tforhecz@gazette.net
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