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Summary: Develop comedy skills in imaginative children. Learn how to play the improv comedy game 'What are you doing?' with kids in this free video clip on improvisational entertainment with youth.
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
"The first game they chose is, what? "What are you doing?" How long have you been playing what are you doing? Maybe five years or something. Can you remember before you knew how to play that game, can you remember that? No. You can teach kids these game at a really early age and they will totally get it. They will learn it as fast as the grown up people can learn these games. They can play them for years and years and still enjoy them. They ask for them all the time. So we are going to try the game. "What are you doing?". Now the game of what are you doing is played like this. I will have a player over here facing the camera. This player will start doing some type of physical activity. Then this player will as the question, "What are you doing?" This player will answer with something that no way resembles what they are really doing physically. That will be the idea this player starts doing. It will go back and forth. It will make more sense when you see it then it did when I explained it. Eventually somebody might a mistake. A mistake in this game would be if they hesitated to much. Well we would feel that wasn't so much fun. We'd call them out for hesitation. Maybe they repeat something that was just said. That's not fun, we already heard that. So we would probably call them out for reputation. Or they might accidentally say something that's what they are doing. Like they think they are driving a car, and someone says what are you doing and they say I'm milking a cow. Well we think that looks a little bit like milking a cow. A very tall cow in this case I guess. But in any case we would call that to similar motions and we'd call them out. These fouls are called when these games are played at the high school level. Also at comedy sports. Some other grouped that play this game. They use these fouls. The host will call them so you can get eliminations and make the game go faster and faster. When we eliminate them, Ill make the call. They we have a little thing we like to do, that Lucia's favorite thing to. Would you lead us? They are, out of there!. Lets all try it together. Clear your hands please. They are, out of there! Then you sit down and your turn comes up again. Its no big deal. We play to win but we really don't care if we lose."
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