How to Be an Entertainer Workshop #2, Caritas, 05.31.06, Afternoon

[bluth-illusions.livejournal.com]

GOB stood up on stage and began to speak when the group was assembled. "Okay, kids, last week you picked out your entrance music. So today, we're going to start with you taking the stage to it and introducing yourself. You might be wondering why you didn't you introduce yourself last week. That's because last week you were nobody. This week, you have entrance music. That gives you the potential to be somebody."

"Give your music selections to Mr. Tino over there and prepare to make a grand entrance. Your entrance is what makes you a star. When you come on stage, you have to own the stage. Dance moves, quick illusions, taking your pants off, whatever you have to do to get the audience under your thrall." Tino whispered something to GOB. "Good call, Tino. Don't take your pants off during a school-sponsored workshop. Own the stage without losing any clothing. And if you can own the stage successfully, the audience is your whore. So have the band play your music, try to make us your whore, and tell us a little about yourself."

"When we're all done with that, we're going to focus on improv comedy. You'll pair up with whoever, get up there, and try to make me laugh. If I laugh, you'll get a free drink from the bar!" Tino leaned over and whispered something. "Really? Fine. Mr. Tino wants me to let you know that it should be something non-alcoholic. Mr. Tino here says that if I give you free booze, the school might have problems with that. Personally, I think he's being a jerk, but I like you nobodies enough that I'm not going to risk getting pulled from the class."

"Okay, let me go and introduce myself, then you can follow suit."

[OOC: OCD coming up is up. Will reply throughout the day at work.]

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[bluth-illusions.livejournal.com]

Be funny, win a non-alcoholic drink. Suck and have a 40+ year-old man boo you off the stage.

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[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie takes the stage with Nadia. "Hi everyone. Before we begin our act I'd like to introduce my partner-in-crime/roomie. This is Nadia Santos. She's from Argentina and has more screwed up family issues than you can imagine. She has a boyfriend who likes to make out with other guys and she carries a mallet. So don't tick her off."

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia raised her eyebrows. "And this is Jamie Madrox, the old man trapped in a teenaged body. He blames everything that's wrong with his life on growing up on a farm in Kansas, but if you ask him, he'll tell you he's from New York. His favorite hobbies are dodging my mallet and playing with himself. He's very good at the latter. Not so much with the former. He wishes he had a boyfriend who likes to make out with other guys and he has a pathological fear of small, long eared rodents."

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[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie coughs. "Okay... that's stretching the truth a tad there."

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[nadiathesaint]

"Stretching the truth? So if we were to be attacked by weetiny bunnies right now, you'd be perfectly calm?"

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[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie shivered a little at that. "No! I meant the other thing!"

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia rolled her eyes and sighed. "Okay, fine, maybe you don't blame everything on growing up in Kansas. But you use it a lot."

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[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie scowled. "I DON'T LIKE GUYS!"

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[nadiathesaint]

"It's okay, Jamie, we're all friends here. You don't have to lie, any more."

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[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie flailed. "No! I'm not gay! You're just mad because your boyfriend made lip contact with another guy mutant!"

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[nadiathesaint]

"And that guy mutant would be you. Are you insulting my boyfriend's lip touching ability?"

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[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Yes!"

*flails*

"No!"

*flails*

"There's no good way to answer that question! And I'm still not gay!"

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia patted Jamie on the shoulder sympathetically. "Okay, Jamie," she said in a placating tone. "We believe you,"

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John hits the stage, doing a very exaggerated shadow boxing routine. He waits for Joxer to follow him up.

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[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer gets up and starts doing his own entirely anachronistic shadow boxing. "I say, you ruffian, did you know that your mother was a Hun?"

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"A Hun? If that means fungus growning, bald, toothless one eyed woman, then so was your mother," John retorts, frowning very dramatically. "Your mother makes grown men cry!"

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[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer shook his fist. "Your mother sleeps with all the Trojans, and so does your father!"

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John grumbles and stalks, almost Sumo wrestling style, towards Joxer.

"Take that back you little man or you shall find yourself with a face as ugly as your mother's!"

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[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

"Alright, I take it back," Joxer said. "It's absolutely not fair to say that the Trojans would sink so low as to sleep with your mother."

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Oh, that's asked for it," he says and makes to stomp on Joxer's foot. His leg motion is high but he makes sure to slow his foot and only taps Joxer's foot before stomping on the stage.

"I'll have my mother ask your mother which Trojan she should sleep with first since your mother's slept with them all!"

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[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer hopped up and down on one foot, grabbing the other one, his mouth open wide.

"It won't matter!" Joxer replied. "With the sack over her head, how would your mother tell any difference!"

He then reeled back dramatically and took a wild swing that is nowhere near connecting with John's head. But Joxer stomps on the ground to simulate the harsh sound of a possible connection between the head and the fist.

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John reels backwards, even tuck and rolling to demonstrate a fall.

"Your mother likes the smell of horse manure!" John shouts and takes off one of his shoes to chuck at Joxer's shin. Not hard though!

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[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer jumped back and rubbed his jaw exaggeratedly. "So, she reminds you of home, does she?"

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"If she reminded me of home, she'd smell like fresh cut grass," John says and takes off his sock. Balling it up, he throws it at Joxer too. "She only eats grass like a moo moo animal!"

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[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

"Well if it came between your mother's cooking and grass, I'd choose the grass too!" Joxer made a face.