Contagious
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So in Mexico we have this particular skit called the Doctor Skit, aka Contagious, and it's basically used to grab people's attention, get them interested, and just plain entertain them for a few minutes. BTW, don't skip the previous blog entry and only read this one. You'd better check out that one too!
Here's how Contagious works - A person walks into a doctor's office waiting room, and one by one more people walk in as well. Each one has something wrong with them - someone is sneezing, someone is throwing up, someone is itching uncontrollably. Each of them encounter the waiting person in some way, in which they pass on the disease and are suddenly fine. The person waiting then begins sneezing, then throwing up, then itching, all added on top of eachother as he encounters more people. The idea is to make the actions as huge, dramatic, and hilarious as possible. Save "realistic" acting for the movies.
However, always had two more interns to add a couple more "symptoms" to the list, which they always made it up at the last moment. Well, since we only had three of us guys, one of which wasn't the best actor, the "catch-all" person always swapped between me and a fellow named Keaton.
So I'm playing the skit at Hidalgo Plaza, and after I'm doing all three of the symptoms, Rhema coms in with her hand.. attacking herself? Well, she grabs my arm and thus passes the "evil hand" disease to me, and I'm running around, having my hand try to attack people in the audience while I'm scrathing and sneezing and throwing up.
Then in walks Debbi, seemingly normal, till she falls flat on the hard cement blocks. I don't know if she was narcileptic or simply fainting or what, but soon enough she falls on me, then I fall myself. So I've got all these five things, I'm running around the plaza and slipping and falling (that's one thing - why in Mexico are ALL the floors slippery? Even the asphalt!) and getting bruised and exhausted when I see my youth pastor walk in with Keaton on his back, banging on his head. I was oofoing right about now.
So Keaton jumps on my back, and I've gotta do everything with him banging on my head (plus he's a good deal heavier than me, anyway). I happened to say, "Keaton I'm gonna faint now, ready?" And he's all, "No! No!" But it's too late, I fall and he crushes on top of me. I'm beat.
FINALLY we come to the punch line of the whole skit. In walks a woman who's "pregnant", screaming from labor pains and calling for the doctor. The person takes a look at the woman, and of course realizing he's been catching everything so far, FREAKS OUT and runs the heck outta there!! When I'm already done, I'm so tired, but I still have three more dramas to do, two of which I play the part of Jesus. But all's good.
On our last site Pastor Josh came up and gave me the chance to pay back Keaton, and I had a good time beating his head while he struggled to run around the court.
Good times.
(o)
Here's how Contagious works - A person walks into a doctor's office waiting room, and one by one more people walk in as well. Each one has something wrong with them - someone is sneezing, someone is throwing up, someone is itching uncontrollably. Each of them encounter the waiting person in some way, in which they pass on the disease and are suddenly fine. The person waiting then begins sneezing, then throwing up, then itching, all added on top of eachother as he encounters more people. The idea is to make the actions as huge, dramatic, and hilarious as possible. Save "realistic" acting for the movies.
However, always had two more interns to add a couple more "symptoms" to the list, which they always made it up at the last moment. Well, since we only had three of us guys, one of which wasn't the best actor, the "catch-all" person always swapped between me and a fellow named Keaton.
So I'm playing the skit at Hidalgo Plaza, and after I'm doing all three of the symptoms, Rhema coms in with her hand.. attacking herself? Well, she grabs my arm and thus passes the "evil hand" disease to me, and I'm running around, having my hand try to attack people in the audience while I'm scrathing and sneezing and throwing up.
Then in walks Debbi, seemingly normal, till she falls flat on the hard cement blocks. I don't know if she was narcileptic or simply fainting or what, but soon enough she falls on me, then I fall myself. So I've got all these five things, I'm running around the plaza and slipping and falling (that's one thing - why in Mexico are ALL the floors slippery? Even the asphalt!) and getting bruised and exhausted when I see my youth pastor walk in with Keaton on his back, banging on his head. I was oofoing right about now.
So Keaton jumps on my back, and I've gotta do everything with him banging on my head (plus he's a good deal heavier than me, anyway). I happened to say, "Keaton I'm gonna faint now, ready?" And he's all, "No! No!" But it's too late, I fall and he crushes on top of me. I'm beat.
FINALLY we come to the punch line of the whole skit. In walks a woman who's "pregnant", screaming from labor pains and calling for the doctor. The person takes a look at the woman, and of course realizing he's been catching everything so far, FREAKS OUT and runs the heck outta there!! When I'm already done, I'm so tired, but I still have three more dramas to do, two of which I play the part of Jesus. But all's good.
On our last site Pastor Josh came up and gave me the chance to pay back Keaton, and I had a good time beating his head while he struggled to run around the court.
Good times.
(o)
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