Improv Everywhere: In Web Videos, Giddy Pranks in Public Spaces

amp160Why isnamp8217t THIS a TV show Well it already is but only in short segments in online video on Vimeo and YouTube The group Improv Everywhere stages comic stunts in public places and posts the videos on the Web Like this amp8220Food Court Musicalamp8221 they put on in the Baldwin Hills Mall in Los Angeles As shoppers munched burgers and fries 16 singers and dancers suddenly launched intoamp160a giddy number called amp8220Can I Get a Napkin Pleaseamp8221 Watch as the fastfood girl the janitor and the security guard all join into the carefully choreographed and thoroughly charming production numberamp160Food Court Musical from ImprovEverywhere on Vimeoamp160Probably the most ambitious performance to date was amp8220Best Game Everamp8221 For this one the troupe showed up at a Little League baseball game and turned it into a major event Working with the league commissioner the Improv Everywhere gang got the playersamp8217 names and nicknames and they worked with NBC Sports to procur announcers a Jumbotron and a blimp None of the players coaches or parents had any idea what was happening but afterward agreed it probably was the most memorable afternoon any of them had or ever would have in a ballparkamp160Best Game Ever from ImprovEverywhere on VimeoThese are among the more than 70 different amp8220missionsamp8221 Improv Everywhere has executed over the past seven years Others include amp8220Frozen Grand Centralamp8221 which had hundreds of people who were in on the planamp160stopping dead still at the same second and holding their poses for five minutes and a massive game of Twister involving more than 800 people listening to the same instructions onamp160their mp3 players in a Lower Manhattan parkCreated in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd Improv Everywhere has been featured on MSNBC and Late Show with David Letterman Recently groups in Prague and London have staged their own Improv Everywherestyle scenes including decorating a subway car to look like a living roomamp160Unlike the humiliating pointlessamp160pranks pulled on Punkamp8217d and other hidden camera shows the Improv Everywhere scenarios seem to be concocted just to make people smile There39s also a element of gentle anarchy in the actionout of nowhere a musical breaks outamp160or a ballgame magically amp160turns into the Field of Dreams for a bunch of kidsamp160No harm no fouls just good funamp160For more footage go to Improv Everywhere videos

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