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FIST 2019 Round 1 Recap
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We’re not your host Seth Payne. We’re Kara Kinsey, Kelsey Peters, and Krystal Ramseur. And we’re the new hosts of the Comedic Pursuits Podcast.
The first thing we’re going to bring to you is some hot goss about what people are feeling about this year’s FIST. That’s Washington Improv Theater’s Fighting Improv Smackdown Tournament.
Our first impressions of FIST 2019 Round 1
We’ve spoken to some competitors, and just to drop some names, we’ve got Justine Hipsky, Jenna Hall, the entire FIST team I Don’t Know Her, which includes Lauren Jordan, Precious Jenkins, Simone Webster, and Nichole Hill. We also talked to Isabelle Solomon and, the one dude, Tom Di Liberto, competing as The Lonely Weatherman.
The interviews below have been edited for clarity. To hear the full responses, listen to the podcast episode.
Jenna Hall, former FIST champion
I am Jenna Hall. I am a member of Hellcat and Nox! and a 2017 FIST champion as part of the team Childish Things.
As a recent FIST champion, do you have advice or suggestions that you would give everyone out there fighting to win FIST this year?
I have a hard time with this because I went into FIST not expecting to win at all. I am not kidding. I think we got to the Final Four, and then I thought maybe we could win it. So honestly, I did not feel any pressure. It didn’t feel stressful. I genuinely just had so much fun with the three guys on my team. I just wanted to keep playing with those fools. It was so much fun.
So I would say, just play to have fun, and don’t play to win. That’s a weird thing to say to people who are competitive. For those of you out there who really want it and are really competitive, I don’t know what to say.
How did you form Childish Things?
I was on Female Accent, which is an indie team that John Carroll invited me onto. I was talking to him about an idea for a FIST team based on a childhood toy and what would come from that. I knew I wanted to do FIST with Henry Ring because we took our very first improv class together back in 2013, and we went through the curriculum together, and we’d done FIST together two times before. So it was me, Henry, and John. And then, Liz Sanders recommended Joe Dawson. I’d seen him perform. He was great. So then he joined, and it was the four of us. We had one practice before we had our first show, and it was a blast.
Was anybody on the team super competitive?
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We’re not your host Seth Payne. We’re Kara Kinsey, Kelsey Peters, and Krystal Ramseur. And we’re the new hosts of the Comedic Pursuits Podcast.
The first thing we’re going to bring to you is some hot goss about what people are feeling about this year’s FIST. That’s Washington Improv Theater’s Fighting Improv Smackdown Tournament.
Our first impressions of FIST 2019 Round 1
We’ve spoken to some competitors, and just to drop some names, we’ve got Justine Hipsky, Jenna Hall, the entire FIST team I Don’t Know Her, which includes Lauren Jordan, Precious Jenkins, Simone Webster, and Nichole Hill. We also talked to Isabelle Solomon and, the one dude, Tom Di Liberto, competing as The Lonely Weatherman.
The interviews below have been edited for clarity. To hear the full responses, listen to the podcast episode.
Jenna Hall, former FIST champion
I am Jenna Hall. I am a member of Hellcat and Nox! and a 2017 FIST champion as part of the team Childish Things.
As a recent FIST champion, do you have advice or suggestions that you would give everyone out there fighting to win FIST this year?
I have a hard time with this because I went into FIST not expecting to win at all. I am not kidding. I think we got to the Final Four, and then I thought maybe we could win it. So honestly, I did not feel any pressure. It didn’t feel stressful. I genuinely just had so much fun with the three guys on my team. I just wanted to keep playing with those fools. It was so much fun.
So I would say, just play to have fun, and don’t play to win. That’s a weird thing to say to people who are competitive. For those of you out there who really want it and are really competitive, I don’t know what to say.
How did you form Childish Things?
I was on Female Accent, which is an indie team that John Carroll invited me onto. I was talking to him about an idea for a FIST team based on a childhood toy and what would come from that. I knew I wanted to do FIST with Henry Ring because we took our very first improv class together back in 2013, and we went through the curriculum together, and we’d done FIST together two times before. So it was me, Henry, and John. And then, Liz Sanders recommended Joe Dawson. I’d seen him perform. He was great. So then he joined, and it was the four of us. We had one practice before we had our first show, and it was a blast.
Was anybody on the team super competitive?