Play the Improv Game Gibberish: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Hi there, it’s Les McGehee, I’m the guy who wrote Les McGehee’s Plays Well With Others, and if you’ll notice on the book down there in gold, it says games included. You’ll notice I’m not there. Well that’s true, but he is here and this is Murray Harvoy, my friend and we’re in my living room because we’re doing a series of clips where we talk about playing improv games with your family and friends in your own living environment, not just professionally with your performer friends or in the workplace where it’s usually for training, teamwork issues, stuff like that. You can play this for fun with your family and friends. And that’s really, that’s where the games came from in the first place. So we’re going to try another example for you, Murray’s going to play with me. Murray thinks of himself as quite an expert and in his real life he is an expert in a bunch of stuff but that won’t help him in this game. We’re going to try some gibberish definitions; hopefully you saw the other clips we made where we’ve talked about gibberish and good listening and gibberish and language technique. But we’re just going to make up gibberish words and then define them for each other and I’ll give you a couple of pointers on the game after we try it. "