Good ol Kirby

Hey there, friends.

Speaking of friends, I went with some of them into Hollywood last night to watch a live improv competition.

The thing that I love about live improv is that even though the jokes aren't nearly as funny as something pre-written, the fact that they're being made up on the spot makes them infinitely more entertaining.

Think about "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"

Well as it turns out, there's a team from Utah that's competing to make it into the 2010 Los Angeles Live Improv Big Huge Whatever Thing.... It's something big and you have to win 10 shows in a row to even make it in. They won their 7th consecutive show last night, which was well deserved. I laughed my freaking face off.

In the team were a couple "celebrities" that no one's ever heard of before unless they're mormon... like Kirby Heyborne, who is incredibly funny. Seriously, that guy just makes me laugh.

I never really thought he was that hilarious in his movies, but in person, I thought I might have exploded.
The competition is simple. Each team just goes up and improvises off of one thing that the audience says, for 20 minutes. Each team has their own 20 minutes... it's not combined. At the end, the audience votes on which team was funnier.

Seriously, they destroyed the other team. And what really makes me happy is that all of their humor is completely clean... they don't use any swear words or risque humor. The crowd was dying. (laughing)

Their competition was swearing left and right and resorting to dirty jokes to get a laugh. They had a few funny moments, but they had no chance at winning.

Speaking of humor, the sidewalks on Hollywood Blvd have these stars embedded in them and we found the one for Chris Farley, a legend in the halls of stupid humor.

In other news, yesterday I went to the temple that's two blocks away from my apartment. Amazingly beautiful building. This picture doesn't do it justice.

Not so beautiful is the food that I had for lunch today. I went and continued working for a friend of mine whose dad is building a quansit hut. We went to a place called Tommy's. They serve chili-cheesburgers.

An actual cheeseburger, and they pour chili into it. Not the healthiest food on the planet.
You use your french fries to eat the chili and then bite into the burger whenever that becomes a possibility.
Tastey? Yes. It's really quite good.

Healthy? Doesn't even pretend to be.

A good idea when you're in the middle of working construction and it's literally 102 degrees outside? NO.

Not at all.


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