The "Questions Only" Improv Game

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"JANE ENTWISTLE: We were just teaching you about the idea of questions. Now, remember I said, "It's not like you can't ever ask a question in improv." Once you become more skilled at doing improv, you'll realize how questions can be nicely placed to further the scene. But when people are just first starting out, their tendency is to ask questions out of fear. So we're going to play a game now called "Questions Only" and how this game works is we are only allowed to ask questions. Now, you may think "Well, Jane you just told me questions aren't okay." This is a game that's going to teach you how awkward it is to move the scene forward when questions are involved. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: And also, Jane, it does help a teach good improviser how to deal with questions if asked. JANE ENTWISTLE: Because it does happen. ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Yeah. JANE ENTWISTLE: We're not perfect, even though we'd like to think we are. Alright, so "Questions Only." So Andrew, what are you going to do today? ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Uh, I thought I would go to the bank, is that fine with you? JANE ENTWISTLE: I don't know. Um, how much money do you have in your bank? ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Uh, maybe about two dollars. You were the last one to check it. I don't know, what do you think? JANE ENTWISTLE: Um, I don't know how to count. How do you count? ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Ah, didn't your dad teach you that? JANE ENTWISTLE: Didn't your dad teach second grade? ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Is that the same father that I had when I was born, or was it my stepfather? JANE ENTWISTLE: Wait. Is your father my father? ANDREW STUBBLEFIELD: Are we related? JANE ENTWISTLE: Okay, this scene is ridiculous, which is going back and forth. We can't even go anywhere because we're only asking questions. Now that was sort of an over-the-top description of what can happen when questions are involved."