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We’re back! This is the Comedic Pursuits Podcast bonus episode covering FIST round 2. We hope you’ve been watching. If not, you’re missing it all.
What’s going on in FIST 2019 round 2?
There’s still a one-person show in the mix. Josh Rachford is in the Sweet 16 with his show where he pulls someone from the audience to improvise with him. A lot of FIST is getting the audience on board with you. And what better way to get the audience on board than to bring the audience into the show?
Some of the teams we interviewed last week have moved forward to the Sweet 16. Ramen Hood and Love Language are still in it. Geoff Corey did a backflip in Love Language’s show. We gave him a standing ovation because we could not handle what happened in front of us. I Don’t Know Her is still in it and going strong. If you got invested after our first interview, you’re in luck.
After round 2, we interviewed FIST team Bat on a Hot Tin Roof, 2018 FIST champion Nina Hsu, James Jelin from FIST team Members of the Audience, and Mary Lauren Hall of FIST team 1-800-555-HIYA. Mary Lauren is also a previous FIST champion.
The responses below have been edited for clarity. To hear everyone’s full interviews, listen to the podcast episode.
Nina Hsu, former FIST champion
I tell myself every year that I’m not going to do FIST. Then Joe Randazzo reached out to me last year and said he was putting together a FIST team with Chris Ulrich and Jane White, and I decided to join.
It’s funny because it’s the kind of thing where you try not to put any stakes on it. I just wanted to have a fun show. Our format was similar to a Pretty Flower. It was two couples on a double date, and then we’d cut to the waitstaff, or the history of the couples, or any follow-the-fun kind of thing. We also tossed in a multi-casting element where we could play other characters that were on the date.
Who came up with that format?
Jive Turkey, Chris and Joe’s duo, does that format. When we rehearsed, we hadn’t really introduced the multi-casting element. I think it just came up spontaneously in one of our first shows. We realized we could use it to make fun of each other, so we made it a thing going forward. The idea of a Pretty Flower in a double date context came up organically through all of our rehearsals, and it stuck.
Was there any point where you thought you might win FIST?
No.
Not even in the last show?
No,
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Apple Podcasts | Google Play | iHeartRadio | Spotify | Stitcher
We’re back! This is the Comedic Pursuits Podcast bonus episode covering FIST round 2. We hope you’ve been watching. If not, you’re missing it all.
What’s going on in FIST 2019 round 2?
There’s still a one-person show in the mix. Josh Rachford is in the Sweet 16 with his show where he pulls someone from the audience to improvise with him. A lot of FIST is getting the audience on board with you. And what better way to get the audience on board than to bring the audience into the show?
Some of the teams we interviewed last week have moved forward to the Sweet 16. Ramen Hood and Love Language are still in it. Geoff Corey did a backflip in Love Language’s show. We gave him a standing ovation because we could not handle what happened in front of us. I Don’t Know Her is still in it and going strong. If you got invested after our first interview, you’re in luck.
After round 2, we interviewed FIST team Bat on a Hot Tin Roof, 2018 FIST champion Nina Hsu, James Jelin from FIST team Members of the Audience, and Mary Lauren Hall of FIST team 1-800-555-HIYA. Mary Lauren is also a previous FIST champion.
The responses below have been edited for clarity. To hear everyone’s full interviews, listen to the podcast episode.
Nina Hsu, former FIST champion
I tell myself every year that I’m not going to do FIST. Then Joe Randazzo reached out to me last year and said he was putting together a FIST team with Chris Ulrich and Jane White, and I decided to join.
It’s funny because it’s the kind of thing where you try not to put any stakes on it. I just wanted to have a fun show. Our format was similar to a Pretty Flower. It was two couples on a double date, and then we’d cut to the waitstaff, or the history of the couples, or any follow-the-fun kind of thing. We also tossed in a multi-casting element where we could play other characters that were on the date.
Who came up with that format?
Jive Turkey, Chris and Joe’s duo, does that format. When we rehearsed, we hadn’t really introduced the multi-casting element. I think it just came up spontaneously in one of our first shows. We realized we could use it to make fun of each other, so we made it a thing going forward. The idea of a Pretty Flower in a double date context came up organically through all of our rehearsals, and it stuck.
Was there any point where you thought you might win FIST?
No.
Not even in the last show?
No,