Welcome to the Official Comedy Club Blogger for Suffern High School

This is the very first post on the Official Comedy Club Blogger for Suffern High School, where you can get the latest news, events, games, topics, scenes, & etc. for the Comedy Club. The purpose of this is so the people of Comedy Club can let the current president/vice president know what they think of the club, what they want more of, and especially what they think is wrong with the Comedy Club. Originally my idea was to create a web site for the Comedy Club, but I figured it would be too high end and take too much time, but the president of the 2007-2008 fiscal year Andrew brought it to my attention that making a Blogger would be much easier. Therefore this has come into existence....

Comedy Writing Secrets by Melvin Helitzer:
Comedy Writing Secrets by Melvin Helitzer is a book synonymous throughout college comedy courses throughout the United States. In this book there is a lot of information that can help the person who thinks they aren't funny at all turn themselves into a comedy writing genius. The fact of the matter is that everyone has the potential to be funny, but they just need to find that potential and use it. This book is the very best way to find such a thing because if you can write comedy then all you need to do is go up there and perform it... That, on the other hand, is a totally different story.

Get the PDF Here

NEWS!!! : Welcome to Surreality... Hold your gears in place, the year end event is near.

- Funding - We need a significant amount of funds in order to go to a Comedy Club Event.
- Fun - A bake sale is nice, but it's not Comedy... Unless you tickle the customer, I don't think they'll be buying anything then... A year end show is very fun and allows the members to express themselves and just plain and simple go all out with their best material
- Preparation - I'll have it taken care of.... I'll hand out fliers make posters and give hype for the show
- Ultimate Comedy Exhibition - Like "Last Comic Standing" only everyone in the school is invited... They will all go head to head and ultimately we will show the finals at the show...

More News

Now that the whole Crash Course in Comedy thing on Comedy Central's website is over, I decided to become more motile in my approach to this whole learning comedy stuff. I was looking on the net and found a great video oriented thing on Expert's Exchange. Check it out, it's located on the right side of the page under the links section.

About The Expert:

Les McGehee is a working award winning comedian and improvisation pioneer who has entertained and trained millions of happier people throughout the US and the world for 20 years. He has toured through countries and performed thousands of shows. Les and his comedy companies have been featured on ABC WB Fox Family and PBS. His writing credits include a book and many successful scripts and published articles. He has played with famous and not so famous stars of stage and screen including appearances with cast members of Saturday Night Live, Whose Line is it Anyway, MadTV, The Simpsons and others. He has provided improv training to Fortune 500 companies including ATT, IBM and Dell as well as government agencies and prestigious graduate schools of business. He was a founder of the Comedy League of America, Comedy Sportz, National Comedy Theatre, IMPROV MBA and other companies and toured with the National Comedy Theatre's “Tour for the Troops” in 2004 and 2005.

Description:

Summary: “So what is the deal with airports? You walk in and everybody is in such a hurry. Its like the time your dad left without you at the gas station and made you chase the car down the road while your brother and sister are in the back sit giving you the finger...what?...why is everyone leaving?...sir, please don't throw your beer at me...why is my microphone off?...” Stand up comedy and improv comedy is a difficult career and making it is no laughing matter. It takes work, practice, persistence, and wit sharper than Oscar Wilde's pen. It is important for a comedian to be relevant, creative, intelligent, and accessible, even when objects are being thrown at him or her from an angry customer in the audience.

In this free video series, let comedian Les McGehee school you in the art of humor as he teaches you how to do improv comedy. Learn different improvisational techniques and games, how to apply those techniques to different situations, and how to use the art of improv comedy to make people laugh. This step by step comedy lesson is sure to make you laugh and get you closer to your dream of telling jokes for a living.

To E-Mail Me, Write To:
BrahmaBull9813@gmail.com

Heed the warning: Any e-mails sent with inappropriate or insulting content will be deleted and the address that sent it will be blocked and set as spam mail. This is simply to make the experience for the people who want to help out with the club easier... Hopefully this won't happen because if it becomes too much of a problem then I will have to shut down this blogger.

Featured on this blogger:

GAMES
JOKES, QUOTES, & VIDEOS
THE ULTIMATE COMEDY GUIDE
VARIOUS SEGMENTS
SUGGESTIONS BOX
POLLS
ARCHIVE

Games

Here are all of the games, if you would like to play a specific one at a specific Comedy Club, either e-mail me or leave a comment here with the date of the Comedy Club so they can be deleted after that given Comedy Club has taken place... This is also the best place to make game suggestions.

GAMES:

PARTY QUIRKS

THREE PEOPLE ARE GIVEN CHARACTERS AND THEY HAVE TO INTERACT WITH THE HOST WHILE GIVING HIM CLUES ABOUT HIS/HER CHARACTER IN ORDER FOR THE HOST TO FIGURE OUT WHO THEY ARE

DATING GAME

THREE PEOPLE ARE CONTESTANTS WITH GIVEN CHARACTERS AND THEY HAVE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS THE MAIN CONTESTANT GIVES THEM ALL THE WHILE GIVING HINTS AS TO WHO THEIR CHARACTER IS IN ORDER FOR THE MAIN CONTESTANT TO FIGURE IT OUT

WEIRD NEWSCASTERS

A CAST OF NEWSCASTERS ARE ASSEMBLED, BUT ONLY THE ANCHOR IS NORMAL AND THEY ALL MUST IMPLY THEIR CHARACTERS WHILE DOING THEIR PART IN THE "NEWS BROADCAST"

SCENES FROM A HAT

A BUNCH OF SCENES ARE PLACED IN A CONTAINER AND MIXED UP, THEN THEY ARE CHOSEN AND THE FOUR PEOPLE ACTING MUST MAKE UP FUNNY IDEAS TO COORDINATE WITH THE SCENES

WHOSE LINE

UP TO FOUR PEOPLE ARE SELECTED TO WORK ACCORDING TO A GIVEN SCENE AND AS THEY TALK TO ONE ANOTHER THEY INCLUDE AND READ OFF LINES THAT ARE CREATED BY VARIOUS AUDIENCE MEMBERS

THE LINE GAME

THREE OR FOUR PEOPLE PARTICIPATE AND ONLY ONE CAN SPEAK NORMALLY WHILE EVERYONE ELSE CAN SAY ONLY A CERTAIN NUMBER OF LINES. THEY GENERALLY SAY ONE OR TWO.

SUPERHEROES

EVERYBODY'S FAVORITE GAME! FOUR PEOPLE ARE GIVEN A SITUATION AND HAVE TO ACT LIKE THEY ARE SUPERHEROES TRYING TO RESOLVE IT, BUT THE CATCH IS THE PEOPLE PARTAKING IN THE GAME ARE THE ONES TO DECIDE WHICH KIND OF SUPERHERO THE NEXT PERSON IS

THE ONE WORD GAME

IN THIS GAME PEOPLE CAN ONLY SAY ONE WORD AT A TIME AND AS THEY GO ON THINGS GET STRANGER AND STRANGER AND ALL THE MORE FUNNY AT THE VERY SAME TIME

TRANSLATIONS

IN THIS GAME THERE ARE FOUR PEOPLE, TWO WHO ARE SPEAKING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND TWO WHO ARE GIVING THE MOST REDICULOUS TRANSLATIONS POSSIBLE

MOVIE STYLES

IN THIS GAME THERE IS A SITUATION PRESENTED AND THERE ARE FOUR PEOPLE. THERE IS ONE DIRECTOR AND THREE ACTORS AND THEY MUST ACT OUT THE SITUATION IN WHATEVER WAY THE DIRECTOR CHOOSES

SOUND EFFECTS

IN THIS GAME THERE ARE TWO PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTING OUT A SCENE AND A PERSON OR TWO PEOPLE WHO ARE MAKING SOUND EFFECTS FOR THIS SCENE, THE WEIRDER THE EFFECT THE FUNNIER IT GETS

THE DETECTIVE GAME

IN THIS GAME THERE ARE UP TO FOUR PEOPLE WHO WILL ACT OUT A SCENE WITH ONE OF THEM BEING THE DETECTIVE AND EVERY PERSON WILL HAVE AN OUT OF BODY EXPERIANCE LIKE THERE IS IN MANY OLD DETECTIVE MOVIES

*New!*

HOMEMADE GAMES-

SPLIT PERSONALITIES:

This game is like Party Quirks only there is no party... Strangers knock on the door and are let in, but the host can't get them out because they have severe mental issues so basically he/she has to pursuade the strangers to leave verbally and they have to drop hints about their personalities along the way....

There's a huge list of games, but these are mainly the ones we focus on...

Funny Videos, Pictures, Jokes & Quotes

Funny Videos

People Getting Punched Just Before Eating:


Dear Sister (OC Season Finale Spoof):

The Ultimate Comedy Guide

This will be updated often at the most because as most things that aren't history, they will be rewritten...

THE ULTIMATE COMEDY GUIDE:

Comedy is something that dates back to no ends and most people that achieve it in it's natural form are generally the ones who have the highest standards in their personalities...

Tip #1:

Let Loose

Most people are afraid to go up their and make asses out of themselves, but those same people don't realize that making an ass out of yourself is a huge part of comedy. If you can't do that then you might as well just go up to audience members and tickle them because it won't be easy to make them laugh otherwise... This is something a lot of people miss. Want to see someone who really lets loose? Look at Jim Carrey, he is an icon when it comes to characters...

Tip #2:

What is funny to you isn't always funny to everyone else...

The type of comedy that prospers above all else has to be one that goes in a general aspect. Stupidity is the most common and general type of comedy there is and examples lie in the many celebrity bashings we witness daily and if that's not enough look at stuff like Mind of Mencia; a show that directly targets stupidity and literally staples the bulls eye to it's back. Look at stuff on BET and Wild n' Out, I think there are some people that might annoy you a lot meanwhile others might be falling out of their chairs laughing at the very same thing you can't stand. Hell, you might like the Daily Show and those same people would look at you funny every time you laughed at Jon Stewart's political wisecracks

Tip #3:

Face Contortion and Body Language

This has to do with Letting Loose, but it goes more into the aspect of giving a visual for the people... If a joke you make isn't funny, most of the time the body language you use and the faces you make will make up for it.

Tip #4:

Don't overthink before you act

When you overthink you overact and screw up, I know this personally. This isn't limited to Comedy either... Think about the Tests you take and how sometimes you look back and feel bad because you screwed up on something you knew just by overthinking it. Try to blindly act so you feel more natural when going up there.

Tip #5

Be Selfish & Raise Yourself

When people look at you and you feel nervous it's a good thing because you can get your thoughts together faster, but if you're going up there and you're still nervous then you can freeze up or choke. Generally this applies to everybody, when they're sitting and watching they feel like they can do a better job, but when they're up there it's like everyone's ready to pounce on them and tear them limb from limb. Try to be a little self centered like you're only trying to satisfy yourself instead of everyone else (not like that -_-), your standards will raise and you'll feel more confident... Just don't over-do it...

As for part 2, you can't rely on the other people up there and keep feeding off their heat. The reason there are teams in many improvisational comedy shows is because they want you to compete instead of rely on each other. If you have to keep relying then how are you going to do when you want to do stand-up and have nobody to rely on. In this case rely on yourself... This way you can do your thing and eventually you will be able to coordinate with everyone while performing, at first this is something good to go by.

That's all for now...

Various Segments

Suggestion Box

Do you have any suggestions you want to make, but you want to make them public? Would you rather make suggestions on this page rather than e-mail someone and rely on them to check your mail? If so, then go ahead an leave whatever Suggestion you may want to here... Comments are welcome too...

Polls

Leave Answers in the Form of Comments!

What do you think of the Comedy Club?

It's Great and I'm Loving It!
There Needs To Be Some Improvement, but Otherwise I Like It!
There Needs To Be A LOT of Improvement, but Otherwise it's Decent...
I Hate It and For All I Care It Can Burn

Results:
????

Who do you think has done the best job so far?

Nick/Mike (2005-2006)
Mike/Nick (2006-2007)
Andrew/Nish (February-March 2007/2007-2008)

Results:
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Who is your favorite comedian?

Jim Carrey
Rodney Dangerfield
Andy Kaufman
Dane Cook
Chris Rock
Jackie Chan
Chris Tucker
Lisa Lampanelli
David Spade
Andy Dick
Jimmy Kimmel
Eddie Griffen
Sarah Silverman
Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert
Adam Sandler
Jeff Foxworthy
Other: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_comedians

Result:
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Archive

FUNNY STUFF

Here is a list of funny videos, quotes, pictures and jokes:
NOTE:
Just a friendly reminder, to those of you who are frustrated with locating your videos on google video because of the enormous influx of YouTube videos simply type in "site:video.google.com" after your search keywords, but don't forget to leave a space after your search term because it won't work otherwise... This same thing works if you type in "site:youtube.com" as well... Cheers!

P.S. School friendly videos will be posted up as well through the website http://www.motionbox.com/ let's just hope they don't block this one as well....

Jokes:
There is an Indian, an African, and a Russian on a train. They're all going towards the same destination at the farthest end of China while they're all sitting around eachother in a train car in Southern Africa. They get into discussion about religion, politics, and then they make a bet. The bet is that they all can find their home country by sticking their hand out of the window one after the next, but if they bring it in too soon then they lose their end of the bet. The African is from Northern Africa, the Russian is from Moscow and the Indian is from Delhi. First the African sticks his hand out of the window and he brings it back in. It's dripping with water and he says "I know this is where I come from because it rains a lot here." He turned out to be correct... The Russian is next and he sticks his hand out of the window and brings it in after a long while. While shivering he exclaims "I know this is where I come from because it snows all too often here." He turned out to be correct... Finally the Indian sticks his hand out of the window... He brings it back in, but there is neither rain nor snow on it... The other two look at him and start to laugh "How do you know this is India? No rain or snow, there is just a darker hand in this train..." The Indian smiles and says "When I put my hand out of the train, what did I have on my wrist? Now it is gone!" the other two laugh hysterically and he joins in... All in all, he turned out to be right...

YTMND: You're The Man Now Dog -
It's a Pizzone!
Pizza Hut Baby Bites.
Who Burnt Nick's Toast?


Quotes:

"We Who Are Truly Brave Will Never Live In Fear" - Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
"DTA, Don't Trust Anybody" - Steve 'Stone Cold Steve Austin' Williams
"Get That Cupcake Out Of Your Mouth Fatty, I Don't Hear A Damn Word You're Saying" - Steve 'Stone Cold Steve Austin' Williams
"If You Ain't Laughin', Then You Ain't Livin' Baby!" - Carlos Mencia (No Strings Attached SU)

Pictures:

THIS IS SPARTA!!!







THE FUZZ IS AFTER ME AND I'M OUTTA GAS!!!







THIS IS WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS WHEN YOU EAT THE BLUE PILL (NEO ATE RED)



ROXBURY BROS



NOW YOU KNOW WHAT I DO WHEN YOU'RE NOT HOME AND I'M ALL ALONE IN THE FRIDGE!!!



MAURY - A REALLY GREAT SHOW... SAYS THIS GUY.



NIIICE!!!



THIS JUST GOES TO SHOW, INSANE OBSESSED NINTENDO FANS WILL RUIN THE GREATEST OF JOKES



THIS WOULD MAKE A VERY INTERESTING MOVIE



YODA SAYS: LOVE IS WHAT



Videos:

Whose Line is it Anyway Game Examples and Funny Stuff -
Whose Line is it Anyway Uncensored:


Props:


Sound Effects:


Whose Line:


What is Love (Saturday Night Live) -
Regular:

Speed Version:


Fire Marshall Bill (In Living Color)-

Honeymoon Safety:

Cruise Safety:

Hospital Safety:

Market Safety:

Bar Safety:

Elementary School Fire Safety:

Christmas Fire Safety:

Fire Safety At Benihana:

Fire Safety... In Space?:


Seinfeld Parody (In Living Color, Season 5)-


Cat Massage-


Grand Theft Mario-


Carlos Mencia as Sean Paul-


VARIOUS SEGMENTS

What is Going On In the Comedy World?

The Showbiz Show with David Spade has Returned(2005-???) and Airs on Thursdays @ 10:30
- Jon Heder was on Last Week to Promote "Blades of Glory" and David turned it around as an insultfest on Jon... Concluding it with a segment called "Are You Smarter Then Jon Heder?" (a play on 'Are You Smarter Then a Fifth Grader') where an audience member would go head to head in trivia with Jon... David picked out a Punk-Rock Chick who in actuality lost to Jon, but David said she won anyway. Jon seemed taken back by David, but he was also acting strange throughout the entire interview most likely as a part of the sketch...
- David reinstates the "There I Said It Segment" first with a bit on Ugly Betty and how unfitting a name it was for the show and then on Supermodel Shows the following week
- David also did various other things like make fun of Lost and how it may be coming to an end, plus Celebrity Stupidity (i.e. Nicole Richie driving on the wrong side of the road) and he even brought back an old thing where he would impliment himself into shows to make fun of them at the beginning of each Showbiz Show... Other things included making fun of Supermodel Naomi Campbell and Heather Mills McCartney who lost her leg in a car accident and is on Dancing With the Stars...

Halfway Home made it's debuet on Wednesdays after South Park
- I saw the first episode and I hated it, I think there are others who may appreciate it more, but I thought the whole NARC thing got played out and the whole home-made explosive thing was stupid. It's like a criminal version of Reno 911, another show I just can't bring myself to like

South Park (Wednesdays @ 10) Gone Overboard?
- From making fun of Scientology with an episode featuring the infamous "Come Out Of The Closet" Segment to "The Dookie In the Urinal" to "N_ggers" turning out to be "Naggers" + midget bashing to the Butters & Cartman incident, it seems that South Park is getting more and more out of hand... Talking to people at school reveals that it's just getting more disturbing, not funnier...

Mind of Mencia makes it's long awaited return...
- Mind of Mencia has been a staple in the line of shows on Comedy Central and it proves itself once again by coming back again...
- I saw a stand-up of Carlos' in 1999 and then his No Strings Attached special and then his show... From the 1999 joke of "No Mexicans in Taco Bell Commercials" to the "No Strings Attached Retard" jokes it seems that Mencia is degenerating in his skills. The more he dishes out, obviously, the less he is left with. Just like Dave Chappelle, his comedy is getting drier and drier (although "The Lost Episodes" turned out to have some really funny 'stuff'). I remember in 2005 when all he had was a commercial describing the shocking stuff he says on the show and just a little bit with him calling a manly girl a man while she's gardening and then simply putting his hand over his mouth to show that he made a no-no. Now he's parading around with his brother Joseph who is supposedly carrying a huge speaker system which has a microphone attached to it that Mencia uses to insult people on the street by telling them what he thinks. I think that the simplicity of the first season jokes were better because Carlos is running the show into the ground with this new stuff. Hopefully he spent his time off making a bunch of good and new material rather then just relaxing.