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Just the Funny, Miami's Funniest Improv Comedy Theater |
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Just the Funny is a group of actors who perform buck-wild edgy Improv Comedy Theater. What is Improv Comedy? Basically it's funny scenes, gameshow parodies, musical skits and audience interaction without using scripts, while making it up on the spot, from the tops of their heads! (i.e. Who's Line is it Anyway, The Groundlings) They also perform some scripted sketches (i.e. Saturday Night Live, Mad TV, Living Color) and musical numbers. What makes them so funny and popular is their zany humor and their ability to include the audience, making it a truly interactive show. If you go, you just might find yourself onstage or asked to speak up and be a part of the show! Before the show begins, Just the Funny asks the audience to fill out little slips of paper with Jeopardy answers, which are basically words, names, places or phrases. The answers are then used later in the show in a piece which mocks the popular gameshow Jeopardy. They also have the audience supply, during the show, suggestions and input such as exotic locations, relationships, genres of film or theater, fake movie titles and foreign countries, which are then used in the outrageous scenes they create! By taking all of this input from the audience it proves to be an interactive and customized show every time they perform, no two shows are alike! With all of this craziness Just the Funny ups the ante by getting into the absurd and hysterical Luv Machine, which is a take off of the gameshow the Dating Game, and is the signature piece of the group. However in this incarnation, the bachelorette is a female audience member chosen by Just the Funny. She then gets to come on stage and choose between three of the most eligible bachelors in Miami for a dream date of a lifetime. The bachelors she gets to choose from are the totally ridiculous and outrageous characters created by Just the Funny's talented troupe. For example there is Borax the Conqueror (George Herring), an intergalactic space alien who has come to the earth looking for a mate and the rare and valuable element known as retsin. Another crazy character in the Luv Machine is Les B. Anne
(David Christopher), a cross-dressing stalker of women at Living Well Lady
who is looking for the woman to bring out the man in him ... or her?
And rounding off the Luv Machine is the one and only Carlos Valdez Jr.
(Alex Perdomo), a Cuban-American lover who sells churro's on the side of
the road in Hialeah, and loves to drive around in his Mustang 5.0 looking
for hevitas (good Just the Funny is composed of twelve members whose ages range from 18 to 32, and who come from different walks of life. Within the group there are teachers, students, a disc jockey, professional actors, and a television producer, all with a passion for making people laugh and having a good time, and they all come from the area. Elizabeth Berry and William Rubio live in Pinecrest, David Christopher is from Kendall, Alex Perdomo is from Westchester, Alan Forbes and Carolyn Morse are from South Miami, Christina Burchard is from Miami Beach, George Herring is from Weston, Christopher Carlisle is from Boca Raton, and Gene Gabriel is from New York City, he flies down occasionally to do shows. Just the Funny performs at the Holiday Inn across from the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, at 1350 S. Dixie Highway in the Ballroom. Showtimes are every Friday and Saturday at 9:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. Admission is $10. There is no age restriction and no drink minimum, and food menu is available for the 9:00 p.m. show. For more information or reservations contact (305) 69-FUNNY or (305) 693-8669. Media Contact Information: |
