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Summary: Learn how to play 'Game-O-Matic' for an improv comedy bit in this free video clip.
Les McGehee is a working, award-winning comedian and improvisation pioneer, who has entertained and trained millions of people throughout the US and the world for 20 years. He has...read more
"Alright, so the next game we’re looking at is a challenge game. Now people that I know that have done Improv shows for a very long time and have played a lot of, lot of games, lot of times. Sometimes they want to challenge themselves in a different way and they don’t want to know what they are going to do and in order to feel that risk, sometimes you have to create it and there’s a game that’s really well suited for that, and that’s what this clip is about. It’s called Game-O-Matic, that was a name that we came up with in Comedy Sports years and years ago. I suppose other people call it different things. It’s basically a game challenge where you’re going to ask the audience to suggest the name of a game that nobody has ever heard of and has never been invented and then you’re going to just play it live right there. In my experience, one of the first times I did that, I think the audience yelled out, Katie Always Lies, and so we ended up making up some rules real quick. We were playing a game where one person in the scene was a liar and then we had to do a perspective replay of the thing and we had real fun showing the different ways, different people had viewed that scene in our cast. It was great fun for about twelve or fifteen minutes of show. "
eHow Article: Play the 'Game-O-Matic' Comedy Game