Improv is a super fun hobby, but it's not without it's clichés and idiosyncrasies. Here are 27 of them!
1. You go on stage as one thing – say, an elephant – but everyone thinks you're something else entirely, like a pre-schooler.
2. Which leads to the perennial problem of never being able to play outside of your physical being.
3. You ALWAYS forget your scene partner's name.
4. But if you're a white girl, it's safe to assume that Sally was the name you were given.
5. Speaking of, if you're a woman who does improv, you know it's never long before a man in a scene with you makes you his mum or love interest.
6. Apparently, all we do is talk about improv.
7. And we've been known to practise improv even when we're completely alone.
8. Sometimes just you ~bomb~.
if you die in the improv scene you die in real life
*Don't Cry Out Loud.*
9. But sometimes your struggle actually works for the scene, and the audience loves it!
10. And you know you can always rely on the trusty art of calling back to an earlier joke.
11. Sometimes you watch a scene and think of all the ways you could've done it better.
12. Or, you're in a scene and you think of a joke but it's too damn late.
13. There's nothing worse than being dragged into a scene when you weren't paying attention.
14. Or entering a scene only to instantly regret it because you have no idea what to do next.
15. Sometimes a scene gets dragged out for far too long, because no one bothers to step in.
16. So you end up getting stuck in a vortex of repeating something over and over and wondering when to stop.
17. There's also that exquisite moment where you don't tap somebody out of a scene because their struggle is too hysterical for everyone else concerned.
The struggle is real, folks. So real. #Improv #ImprovMemes #Struggle #Real #Hashtag
*Big Brother voice* "Ramya's been on stage for 47 minutes".
18. Or, conversely, you stick your oar in where it's absolutely not wanted.
19. Sometimes, some unimaginable bastard forces you to sing or rap.
20. Or you find yourself copying somebody's accent, which you DEFINITELY can't pull off.
21. When you accidentally shut down somebody's suggestion in a scene, you feel terrrrrrible.
22. But nothing is worse than when you get a useless suggestion from the audience that you can't work with.
23. Sometimes you go too far and say something super weird.
24. Or end up in scene that starts to get a little not PC.
25. But more often than not, you end up in a scene that's dumb AF but you love it.
26. Sometimes you can't keep a straight face and break character.
27. But in the end none of that matters because you love making a fool of yourself!
