Making It Up As We Go

When I was younger, every Friday my family and I would sit in the living room and watch 3 TV shows together every week! It was an awesome tradition that I loved and one of the TV shows that was part of the routine was WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY

The show always had us busting out in laughter and when it went off the air we were really sad because it was a humor that all of us loved.  For those who do not know, WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY is a TV Show where 4 improvisors act out scenes and play games and all all of the jokes are made on the spot (COMEDY IMPROV!).  Luckily however, they brought it back last year with Aisha Tyler ("Lana" from Archer and "Charlie" from Friends) replacing the original host, Drew Carey.  That was the only major change really which was not that bad because Aisha is an amazing comedian and improvisor AND they kept the original three improvisors everyone loved from the show: Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, and Ryan Stiles! IT IS SO FUN!

Anyway, I haven't been watching religiously the new season unfortunately but whenever I was able to catch an episode I did and it was still Hilarious! The improvisors are so funny and they are what inspired me to join the Comedy Improv team at UCSD actually!

What I an trying to get to is that not only should you start watching this show (it comes back in March on the CW), but I wanted to talk about (and brag) how me and my friends were able to go to a filming of the show!

(Me when it hit me that I would be in front of the amazing hilarious famous people)

Now I cannot talk really about what jokes they made, the special guests or anything due to policy but what I can say is that I had such a good time! It was SUPER FUNNY, all of the improvisors are hilarious always cracking jokes not only with each other but with the audience as well, and the entire ambiance was just phenomenal.

I scored our tickets FOR FREE on tvtickets.com which you should check out if you wanna go to a filming of a certain show in the LA area.  Some shows may be on hiatus at the time you check it out but when they aren't, they have tickets for WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY, AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS, THE BIG BANG THEORY, MIKE & MOLLY, 2 BROKE GIRLS, and SO MANY MORE!

We waited in line for a while, sat down, and laughed for so many hours it was amazing!  I AM MOST EXCITED ABOUT COMING OUT ON TV TO BE HONEST THOUGH AND CANNOT WAIT TO SEE MY STARSTRUCK FACE ON THE SCREEN

One of the best moments I love watching in the show is SCENES FROM A HAT which is basically what we call on my Comedy Improv team: Potpourri.  The coach (in the case of the show, Aisha Tyler) will state something such as ....

... and then the improvisors just blurt out whatever comes to mind and honestly this is one of the best games they have but then again, all the games they play are great

So go ahead and Find a Way to watch older episodes or wait till March to watch it but until then, try to be better than this guy if he were real

Milkshakes Make Me Too Lazy to Go Out to the Yard

Why fight the urge? Milkshakes are delicious and you know it and I have never heard of someone having a disappointing experience while drinking a milkshake.  I apologize for the hint of aggression behind this post its just that this year I really learned what it meant to have a really delicious milkshake.

It was when I went to my first improv festival which was held at USC that I realized you don't have to only put ice cream and milk in a blender to have an awesome milkshake and the more sugary products you blend the better.

[I hired John Travolta to reenact me drinking milkshakes all weekend]

GROUND ZERO is the name of this student-run cafe at USC which is better known for its milkshakes than it's coffee (and I don't mind, I like coffee but damn those milkshakes are good) and you should really go check it out if you're in the area.  They're open weekdays from 8:30am-Midnight and weekends from 1:00pm-Midnight by the way, I looked it up.

 

LOOK AT THIS MENU!

Well, if you can zoom in somehow, look at it... there's a bunch of different mixtures where they'll mix in bananas, oreos, brownies, oreos, chai, marshmallows, snickers, peppermint, and/or twix... not all in one though of course, but you get the point.

Also, when we went they had specials based off of superheroes and holy crap were those amazing and I WAS SO HAPPY BECAUSE THERE WAS A BATMAN THEMED SHAKE AND IT WAS DELICIOUS.... Even if it wasn't my type of milkshake I most likely would have forced myself to like the shake because it was a Batman milkshake but that's besides the point. - It was banana, chocolate syrup, and Oreo cookies by the way so you can totally make it at home and feel just like Bruce Wayne when he orders Alfred to make some shakes for him.

But this was all a while ago, and actually a few days ago I told my friends about this place and we decided to recreate some of these milkshakes.  We didn't look up the actual milkshakes but we ran over to Target and followed our hungry stomachs to whatever we wanted.  We bought some vanilla ice cream, Twix, peppermint patties, chocolate syrup, and unfortunately lactose-free milk because my friend is lactose intolerant but hey they were still good.

[Hard at Work]

The milkshakes were great and we only got a little bit of the concoction on the ceiling (not joking) and we may have made a mess on the kitchen counter but it was awesome.  So whether you're still at home, at college, or just plain hungry, I recommend you get your blender and mix in whatever you want and I promise you will not regret it.

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