How to play the Foreign Expert Improv Game

Foreign Expert is essentially a combination of 2 improv tropes, namely gibberish and the interview scene. What adds a little something extra to this game is the presence of a translator, who is forced to speak both English and gibberish in the quest to serve as mediator between the 2 other parties. The result is a game with 3 distinct roles.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• An improv troupe
• 3 chairs

1. Ask the audience for a topic on which someone might be an expert.

2. Seat your 3 players, from left to right, in this order: interview host, translator, foreign expert.

3. Start the scene by having the interview host introduce the show. The host should name her show and then introduce the foreign expert.

4. Nod if you are the expert to acknowledge your name, but otherwise do not respond to any English spoken by the host.

5. Ask a question of the expert in English, as the host. The translator must then translate the question into gibberish to ask it to the expert in a language he will understand.

6. Respond to the translated gibberish question in gibberish as the foreign expert. The translator must then turn back to the expert and translate this response back into English.

7. Repeat Steps 5 and 6 for each question, until the topic has been sufficiently explored.

8. Have the host thank the expert for his time, then sign off, ending the show and scene.

Tips & Warnings

• Feel free to have the translator and expert confer a bit back and forth in gibberish if necessary.
• Don't just translate randomly from gibberish; pay attention to the motions and emotions of the expert.