"Chanson Idiot"

Finally an Autocourse everybody did again! Today we had to choose a stupid light song, like 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious', and change the lyrics to Bouffon text. 

"We need a Chanson Idiot." 

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Michael "didn't understand the exercise" and presented a real song from a bigot Southern American singer. He wanted to use the same lyrics to expose just how much of an idiot the singer is, which might have worked, but his performance lacked listening and pleasure so it fell apart.

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Mia sang some Spanish text to Jean Constantin's Le Pacha which was fantastic.

 Really light and rhythmic and fun. He then got her to change her text to 'Greetings' and it worked nicely. A dark nasty text with a really light bubbly performance. Selected for the show too!

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André and I presented a number we worked on in which dressed very gay (him in a camp tight little man's outfit and me in drag) and sang and danced to Cabaret's 'Two Ladies' but with changed lyrics to talk about gay marriage.

Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee.

Two faggots!

Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee.

Two faggots!

Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee.

And we will burn in hell, oh!

Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee.

Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee.

I'm happy.

Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee.

We're happy.

Bee-dle-dee dee dee dee.

To burn in hell.

It went really well and the audience loved it. At the end Philippe said "now with the Bouffon text." We told him we had changed the text to talk about gay marriage in a Bouffon way. That is, we presented ourselves as two gays saying fuck you to an audience of gay-haters by showing how happy we were together. But Philippe said it was "too nice." He got us to do the song again with one of his Bouffon texts, so we tried it with a mixture of 'Greetings' and 'Adam's Masturbating' which worked in the same way it did for Mia, but it didn't talk about gay marriage like we wanted it to. 

Philippe said we could make it talk about gay marriage but we need to mock the people who believe gay marriage is wrong, which is a slightly different take from what we did. So we're going to adjust it and try in this way. Philippe said "we will do for the show" so that's good! Great to work with André too. Easy and fun. We're good friends, but we don't play on stage together very often, so it was nice.

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Ben presented a song using the apartheid text, with a few transvestites dancing beside him, but he kept forgetting his lines about 20 seconds in, each time in the same place. He saved the show, picking up the flop and repeating the number several times, and it was very funny. But he was never able to make the point he wanted to make. But in a way it was really great. And they he could present again and deliberately forget his lines three times as a tactic. "There is something not bad but you have to work."

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Steph presented a shaky number of the 'I must be sick' text to the tune of Total Eclipse of the Heart. 

"Everything is not bad but we don't see your pleasure."

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Charles presented a text to the tune of How Much Is That doggy? He was losing his lines and it was falling a part a bit, and then right at the point where the 'woof woof' goes, Philippe took two photos with his camera, making the loud noise 'click click'. It was brilliant.

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Sam presented a clever number as her AIDS patient in which she changed the lyrics to I Will Survive to tell a story about the bastard who gave her AIDS.

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Lee did the 'Dickheads' text to the tune Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. 

He started doing it with lots of life and positivity, and then after Philippe 'killed' Lee quite strongly, he did it in a really depressed way and it went somewhere interesting. "Need to work more."

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Vicky did a the text to 'I Must Be Sick' whilst playing the accordeon. She was absolutely charming and with the audience. "We keep it."

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Yuichi presented the same number he'd done for Clown ("Banana!") in his Bouffon costume, but Philippe stopped him. He told him Clown is over and that "you have to do something new."

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Sophia sang the real last words of somebody on death row to the tune of Galoop Went The Little Green Frog. Philippe said "you need something light" surprisingly (when you consider the song), but the performance was heavy.

"We have to see you having fun to make fun of people who are for the death punishment."

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Barbara presented a song but got killed for being boring. 

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And finally Ben and Thomas presented a scene from Aunt Aggie's Gut Rot with Mary and Elisabeth. But it was rushed and a big flop. "There was not one moment in what they did that wasn't a piece of shit."

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A big, good day, with lots of cool music!