“Guy, He Is A Bastard, But He Has A Good Spirit.”

Ben and Thomas presented their scene again from Aunt Aggies Rot but the complicité, game, and pleasure wasn’t there. “We don’t see the actor.”

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Lee and Tim also tried the same scene but weren’t any better. Philippe then got them to gossip about somebody in the class. Quickly! The speed helped a lot to create the fun, naughty, and light energy of gossiping.

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It was then opened up to everybody else to have a go at gossiping. Many couples tried but were killed if they were boring - signified by if there were three or more audience member’s hands in the air. I was one of those couples.

After everyone had gone and people were having second tries with new couples, I asked Sam if she’d like to get up with me. And we went up, and the first thing I said was “So Sam, what happened this weekend?”, which totally put Sam in the shit as rumours have been spiraling about her antics at Montrichard last weekend. And Sam immediately realised I’d tricked her. And the audience were cracking up. And we continued this scene, skirting around the facts and teasing around the truth, without ever actually saying it. For example, we gossiped about what everybody else did in the weekend apart from Sam. We had a great game between us. Sam being embarrassed and distraught (pretend, thankfully) and me being naughty and sneaky with my questions. 

At one point, when I suggested that instead of making up gossip (since she didn’t seem to like it) that we tell the truth, Sam accused me of being gay. At which point I turned the tables and pretended to be really sad and disappointed. “Sam, I feel like you’ve put me in the shit. Like you’ve trapped me. It’s really nasty.”

There was also a great game we had with the audience, which involved them all crying “ohhhh” when Sam went to leave the stage. And when I invited Ben onto the stage to stand with me as my gay partner, the audience screamed “nooooo!” because he had been so bad in his opening scene and Philippe had told him he can’t come back on stage for an hour and a half. And whenever the audience cried or screamed, I asked “why are they doing that?” which further put Sam in the shit. 

We had a lot of fun, and our scene went for a long time. I was really scared that I had actually upset Sam, as I wasn’t sure that what she was playing was real or pretend. And I think she was embarrassed definitely, and perhaps it was a bad idea considering she could be sensitive from what happened in the weekend, but I always deliberately avoided talking about the truth and instead just tried to have fun flirting with the idea that there was real gossip but I didn’t know what it was. But Sam said it was fine and that she had a lot of fun.

“Guy, he is a bastard, but he has a good spirit.”

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Duncan presented his number in the straight jacket again but he didn’t have the same voice as before and it was sentimental. “We say poor guy, he suffered... Not the voice of the Bouffon.”

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“The Bouffon, they don’t present themselves ‘we suffer a lot’.” We can see it, but they don’t say it.

“They don’t want compassion...The Bouffon aren’t asking for anything.”

Q: What do they want? 

A: “To show...after a big hate...there is something fantastic...there is the freedom of laughing...after hate...and with that freedom we can create beautiful art.”

“They want to show that they are more free than us.”

“They don’t want to say ‘We miss you...We miss your love. We miss your compassion’...But we come to tell you what you did...Children of God.”

"The first tactic is to make people laugh...If people are laughing they are less ready to take out their guns."

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Vicky presented her Mother Ubu monologue again but she wasn’t nasty enough. She’s in a bit of a crisis at the moment and it was hard watching her because I want to shake her out of it. She needs to commit like usually does, but with the level of energy and the amount of risk she took today, it wasn’t anything. Commit Vicky! I know you’re reading! 

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Akron presented a bastard: a smarmy vacuum cleaner salesman. 

He gave us a bit of history and then went into playing him, talking about how the colour of the vacuum cleaner is the same as the Mizerati's in Italy. But he didn't give us enough details to really see the guy - this was one of my problems yesterday as well. "[You go] too fast to your idea. We need all the details before. Hair, eyes, body..."

"I don't see you having fun to mock this guy."

When asked about the guy's dick Akron said he didn't know, which of course he didn't, but Philippe emphasised that to destroy him you have to make it up. Say it like you do know. "When you do the parody of someone you don't hesitate to have a fun to say nasty things about his dick."