LawksO'Lordy

Yep. I (foolishly) only gave I4H the time of day a few months back, and I blazed through the archive. Now I get excited if I see an I4H regular in the listings for a CBB ep. Was really surprised to see that Mookie was last on about 3 years ago, because his name lodged hard in my mind.

Steven Yeun is very sweet, but his rabbit-in-the-headlights way of handling improv suggestions doesn't really allow for any amusement to truly build. Bless him for admitting that his PR team don't have much confidence in him, though.

Ah! I can totally see Mohr hogging things in live improv. He came across well on CBB though. According to Jeffrey Sweet's oral history of the Compass Players/Second City, Shelley Berman was an acknowledged big rigger and other members didn't care for it. So this has been a problem since the dawn of the form! I think it was Berman, anyway - they're definitely mentioned many times by name in the book (I don't have it to hand)

A very interesting episode, though it is odd how Jake lets Fowley off the hook with regards to all the Runaways rumours, saying that he seems too nice to have been like that, in spite of Fowley's extremely unboundaried sexual remarks to Miss Wendy and Lady Satan, all of which are brushed over by them and certainly not encouraged. And that's before Fowley's non-denial denials start!

I loved the gang talking about how racist this film is, whilst in the very same sentence unironically referring to Kenneth Branagh's character as a "cripple". Right on, guys!