How I Met a Gift.

This is downtown Negaunee, the town I lived in from the age of 7 and up. Huge right?

IMPORT-Dvr is still working overtime recording new shows and holding onto the ones I haven't got a chance to watch. Did manage to watch HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER season opening while winding down before bed. Well started to watch it and stopped halfway through. This show has been operating on 'it's not bad' for quite a while, or 'i kinda like it' for a while with people who I exchange opinionated sitcom dicussions with. Well I may be done with it I think. I like NPH, he's funny, but that schtick is getting old, and I think they are for the most part wasting the talents of Jason Segal. The rest of the cast I find horrible. Allyson Hannigan I cannot describe how much at times she annoys me, and the other girl barely has a purpose in the show now that the male lead is no longer after her like in season one. And the entire premise of the future dad telling his kids the story of how he met their mom hampers more than helps. It's intended to clearly tell you what's happening and keep you coming back so you don't miss anything. Well here is my problem with lots of sitcoms, they get too plotty. Mostly they are dealing with plot. I don't really care who the mother is, or at least not as much as I don't want to see bad comedy. And the lead actor is not a comedian. He is a 'actor' who is following the dance/comedy steps he learned from watching comedians and thus cannont bring anything else to it other than the basic sitcom dancing steps. Maybe it's just because it was the season opening and that is why it was so plotty and had no diversions. But it just reminds me of funny shows like FRIENDS (come on it was funny) that got bogged down in babies, secret relationships, marriage, and moving or not moving plot. That show was at it's best when it was Chandler getting stuck in a atm, or them all getting ready for the party.

I also did not record THE BIG BANG THEORY. I think it's going to miss my cut of shows to watch. It's plain, ordinary, and done by the guy who does THREE AND A HALF MEN. Nerds, really nerds, all of them. 22 episodes of Revenge of the Nerds?

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Had a Gift Sketch show rehearsal last night to sort of kick off our more intense schedule. Got to see the space we will be performing, did some exercises, and had a table read for stuff we wrote. I brought 3 sketches, one monolougue, and one song parody I wanted to set on fire. The sketches went over well, and just hearing them found where things can be cut, added, or injected to make premise clear. I'm really excited to work on all three of those. The monolougue as well is something I hope can be played around with and promises to be so much fun to perform. We have a Oct 1 deadline for pitches before we start really working over stuff. So I got to get more ideas and more political/thanksgiving type of stuff. I think I've covered most of the xmas and religious stuff. I look forward so much to finding some interesting characters and really create those and put up this show to which hopefully we can get lots of people to come and watch. The Gift Theatre gets great turnout in the neighborhood it's in, Jefferson Park. But I look forward to getting other improvisors and sketch people to come out and see it. Working outside of the normal sketch/improv system so far is freeing. It makes me think that there is no reason that I should not be involved with 2 sketch shows a year at least.