advertisement advertisement Standing in front of the studio audience while three cameras live-stream to YouTube, Charlie Todd offers a brief tutorial on improv comedy then issues a challenge to the countless viewers and Twitter users at home (literally, as no one knows just how many are there). He wants them to tweet jokes based on the topic #mygooglehistory. Pulling from the tweeted responses, he reads one: “How to make my mom tell me she loves me,” he says. The studio audience bubbles with a few random chuckles. “Maybe they’re being a bit too real here,” Todd says. Mind you, being arbiters of what’s good is not the same as creating it. It’s why you never see Simon Cowell take the stage and belt out a tune and Roger Ebert’s lone screenwriting credit has a 5.8 out of 10 rating on IMDB. In short, no, not everyone can do this. Not everyone’s a comedian. But if anyone can find gold in the vast rivers of mud, it’s Todd. … [Read more...] about The Uptight Citizens’ Brigade
