This comedy club in new york is unabashedly Mormon and clean. If you come to this club you're met with a challenge, that you can have a fun time without alcohol or even coffee. You can. Mormons do it all the time. It also has stand-up comedy. Where the comedian is not allowed to go blue at all and has his/her Challenge to get through a whole set without going blue. There's a water tank under the stage just like that dunking ball game at county fairs and there's a seat in the audience for some lucky someone who holds the lever. That person is the oldest, most conservative person in the audience. If they think it's going blue they pull the lever the comedian is down and it's onto the next one. The audience shouts and jeers to get this person to do the dunking. Comedians know what they're getting into and it's a fun challenge bantering with the audience ("don't you pull that lever!"). They know they can go to farts, boogers, underwear but beyond that it's dunk time. Throughout the night there are games and people who know how to really party that make it so super fun. And no hangover in the morning!
Have you ever been in a speech or something where the speaker fields questions from the audience? If you weren't in a UN-style microphone-at-every-seat equipped room, then you probably saw one or two saps running the microphone around to those asking questions. I was this sap recently in a press conference, and although I consider myself quite agile, it still delayed things and was noisy for the cameras (not to mention my beautimous profile when I had to run in front of them). I've also heard people bragging about shot-gun mics that can pick up someone's voice leagues away. Couldn't these work in this situation, where the sap can just stand at the front with headphones on and point the mic at whoever is talking? Maybe it wouldn't work so well in a football stadium, but surely a 20-person press conference could manage. Right?
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