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23/06/2022

“Knight Rider” meets Improv Comedy Whackiness! The latest episode of the “In a World Of…Improvised Movie Homages” podcast is up, and this week we pay homage to the greatest crime fighting talking car 80’s TV show ever made: Knight Rider! (Listen on your favorite podcast app or on our site: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/bugged-by-crime/

In the 80s, there was a string of TV shows featuring a man with a very cool vehicle, and each week he would arrive in a small town and stumble upon a criminal enterprise, usually where a rich powerful man was taking advantage of a good-hearted, community minded, small business owner. There was a LOT of shows like this, but only one with a sentient, talking car, so that’s the way we went!

This episode features the improv games Best of Times, Worst of Times, Last Letter, First Letter, 2-Word Typewriter, Pardon, and Cutting Room.

16/06/2022

Do you like “Underwater Alien Horror Movies” like Leviathan and Deep Star 6? Do you ALSO like Improv Comedy? Then you will LOVE the latest episode of the “In a World Of…Improvised Movie Homages” podcast! (Listen here or on your favorite podcast app: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/wet-slimy-death-creature/)

In a World…where the last unexplored frontier on Earth is not on Earth, but under it. Deep under water. One deep water crew, with the best of intentions of finding healing algae, will release something that was never meant to be released. Can they survive the wet slimy death creature…?

This episode features the improv games Last Letter First Letter, Emotional List, Ding, and Cutting Room.

08/06/2022

What do “The Most Dangerous Game,” “Surviving the Game,” “The Hunt,” and “Hard Target” all have in common? #1) They are all movies that involve “hunting man for sport.” 2) They are all the type of movie we game the “Improvised Movie Homages” treatment on the latest episode of the “In a World Of…” podcast! (You can listen here or on your favorite podcast app: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/gaming-the-hunt/)

In this episode, we pay homage to those movies where man is hunted for sport. This is a style of movie that gets remade over and over, and it is usually ridiculous and almost always fun. Being an improv comedy thing, ours sort of expands the boundaries of the genre with some, er, fantasy and sci-fi elements…

This episode features the improv games A to Z, Theater Genres, Murphy’s Law, and Cutting Room.

01/06/2022

Labyrinth! Improv Comedy! Fire demons, castles, spears carrying swords, and more, all in the latest episode of the “In a World Of…Improvised Movie Homages” podcast! (listen here or on your favorite podcast app: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/fantastic-fires-in-the-neverland/)

In this episode, we pay homage to those fun, sometimes cute, sometimes scary, often bewildering kids movies where a child finds themselves in a fantasy world and encounters a variety of dangers and creatures. To do so, we play the improv games, A to Z, Timed Styles, Gibberish Switch, and Cutting Room.

It’s a ton of fun so please enjoy and share!

26/05/2022

Do you like “training comedy movies,” like Stripes, Police Academy, and Feds? Then you will love the latest episode of the “In a World Of…Improvised Movie Homages” Podcast! (Listen here or on your favorite podcast app: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/mounties/

In this episode, we pay homage to “Training Movies.” The movies where the bulk of the story involves the training of a group of varied misfits (sometimes who are little more than cliches or stereotypes) learning how to come together so they can graduate. We focused mostly on comedies, like Stripes, Police Academy, and Feds, but in the episode we realized that a lot of movies fall into this category, like Top Gun and Full Metal Jacket!

This episode features the improv games Trailer in a Minute, Superheroes, Blind Line, Emotional Lists, and Cutting Room

18/05/2022

This week is a “very special episode” of the podcast. If you are interested in storytelling, movies, and/or improv comedy you will love this one! (listen here or on your favorite podcast app: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/breaking-down-and-discussing-the-first-6-episodes-of-2022/)

We pull back the curtain a bit and chat about the first 6 episodes of 2022. We share our thoughts about how the episode went, things we liked, things we thought could be better, and go into some of the things we have learned and applied about performing some of the improv games and about the process of putting together a movie on the fly.

Let us know what you think of this format - we are thinking about making it a regular episode format!

04/05/2022

Imagine the “DaVinci Code” but with milk! Yup, it’s another episode of the “In a World Of…” Podcast, and this week we give Dan Brown thrillers the Improvised Homage treatment. Listen to “The Farmer’s Milk Season” on your favorite podcast app or on our site: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/the-farmers-milk-season/

In this episode, we pay homage to the thrillers of Dan Brown, specifically his Robert Langdon books: Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, and Inferno. Which is interesting, since Mike never actually read them or saw the movies…

This episode features the improv comedy games Prologue in a Minute, Pardon, He Said She Said, Newsroom, and Cutting Room.

27/04/2022

Improv Comedy Wackiness Meets “Heist” movies and shows like The Vault, The Italian Job, and Leverage! Listen to “The Dropped Parcel” on your favorite podcast app or on our site: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/the-dropped-parcel/

In this episode, we pay homage to “Heist” movies. Those glorious (and sometimes convoluted) movies and TV shows where a small group of criminals (who are usually good people or only stealing from bad guys (or both)) have to create complicated plans to pull of daring and difficult - dare we say, “Impossible” heists (or “missions”). We specifically focus on Leverage (the TV show) but also the Mission:Impossible TV show and a number of movies. We also have some truly bad European accents…

This episode features the improv games Prologue in a Minute, Dating Game, Two-Word Typewriter, and Cutting Room.

14/04/2022

This week, Steven Seagal gets the “Improvised Movies Homages” treatment! 5 Improv Comedy Games, one three-word titled movie, and many, many laughs as we present: “Near to Exhaustion” (Check it out here: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/near-to-exhaustion/)

Lance Hurricane is a good cop, a good husband, and a good man. When he finds himself in the middle of a giant plot to corrupt the nation’s politicians, he must use his mastery of the martial art, “Octopus Fu,” to stop the plot, even if it drives him…Near to Exhaustion!

This episode features the improv comedy games Prologue in a Minute, Two-Word Typewriter, Ding, Gibberish Switch, and Cutting Room.

29/03/2022

Liam Neeson has become genre unto himself, and in this week's episode of the "In a World Of..." Podcast we perform an improvised homage to that genre! (listen here: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/the-gardener/)

If you like Taken, Unknown, the Commuter, and many others, and if you like improv comedy, then this is the podcast episode for you!

In a world…where some people will go to any lengths to get prized magnolia wood, one man will be forced to return to a life of violence to rescue the only thing he has left in the world that he cares about.

This episode features the improv games Trailer in a minute, Last Letter First Letter, Pardon, Best of Times Worst of Times, and Cutting Room.

24/03/2022

New episode: An improvised homage to giant monster movies like Godzilla and King Kong! (Listen here: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/marsupial/)

In a World…where there are more things in nature that we don’t know than that we know…one noble expedition will awaken something more terrifying than they could imagine…

This episode features the improv comedy games Movie Trailer in a Minute, Last Letter, First Letter, Emotional List, and Cutting Room. Oh, and a giant Kangaroo…

Enjoy - and please share!

16/03/2022

New Podcast Episode! "Slice," is our improvised homage to "Blade" and other vampire-action movies (Listen here: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/slice/).

In a World…where people feel safe and assume monsters aren’t real…there exists a second world of evil and vampires. However, there is one man who walks in both worlds, and he may be the only thing between evil and light. He is…SLICE.

This episode features the improv comedy games Movie Trailer in a Minute, Best of Times / Worst of Times, Last Letter / First Letter, Blind Line, and Cutting Room.

08/03/2022

New episode! Stephen King's Misery gets the "Improvised Movie Homage" Treatment! (listen here: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/ending-turbulent-poetry/)

In a World…where some appreciate art, there are others who appreciate it just a little too much. This is the story of Raymond, a poet, who has the unfortunate experience of meeting his number one fan…
This episode features the improv games Movie Trailer in a Minute, Ding, He Said She Said, Emotional Lists, and Cutting Room.

15/02/2022

Do you like Improv Comedy AND “amnesia thriller/action” movies like The Bourne Identity AND ridiculous FIFA-style commentary? Then check out this excerpt from the “Lovely Remembrances” episode of the “In a World Of…Improvised Movie Homages” Podcast! It is a 4-minute clip of the improv game cutting room, and it is a ton of fun - and very ridiculous. (You can listen to the full episode here: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/lovely-remembrances/)

Each week on the podcast we pick a movie or genre as a starting point and then create and perform an improvised “movie” in that style. What makes our show different than other improv podcasts and shows like this is that we build the story by playing a series of connected short-form improv comedy games!

This clip is from the final act of “Lovely Remembrances,” which is our improvised homage to amnesia thrillers like The Bourne Identity and The Long Kiss Goodnight. At this point in the story, our hero has learned that he has quite a shady background. Before he lost his memory, he was going to infiltrate the FIFA World Cup as a ref and was supposed to kill all the players. He does not want to go back to that life of violence, but his former employer has kidnapped his new love interest and will kill her if he doesn’t finish the job. Will he kill all the players? Will he resist and lose his new love? Listen to find out!

08/02/2022

New Episode! An Improvised Homage to MCU Origin Movies (like Ant-Man). We had a ton of fun on this one and we featured our very good friend and pop-culture/comic-book expert Craig Liggeons as a guest! The convo was so good that we had to split it up (there will be a bonus episode on Thursday). http://avishandmike.com/episodes/hedgehog-man/

In a World…where there are heroes and villains, and mysterious forces that people will never fully understand, one simple college student will find himself transformed into…Hedgehog-Man! Welcome to the debut movie of the AMCU: The Avish and Mike Cinematic Universe!

This episode features the improv games Two-Word Typewriter, Best of Times, Worst of Times, Newsroom, Cutting Room, and Pardon.

This episode also features our friend and fellow improviser (one of the founding members of the Improv group we started way back in 1996), Craig Liggeons! While Craig doesn’t do any improv with us here, he is a pop culture expert, huge movie and comic book fan, and co-host of the Comic Book Gurus Podcast. As such he is the perfect guest expert to discuss MCU movies with us!

01/02/2022

Do you like Point Break? Of course you do! Do you like Improv Comedy? Of course you do!! Then you will LOVE the latest episode of the “In a World of…Improvised Movie Homages” Podcast: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/climbing-intensely-down/

This show features the improv games Scenes Without the Letter, Gibberish Switch, Questions Switch, and Cutting Room. Plus some mad cap slip ‘n sliding - and otters!!

Check it out, share the link, and be sure to let us know what you think!

18/01/2022

New Podcast: An Improvised Homage to movies like Robocop! http://avishandmike.com/epi.../destructible-future-cyberman/
In a World....where plastic waste has so overwhelmed the world that people are forced to live in domes and live off the slugs that cover their bodies, one police officer will be transformed into something more than human.
This movie is a tale of loss, gain, plastic, slugs, violence, revenge, and redemption. And improv comedy...
This show contains the improv games Gibberish Switch, Emotional Lists, A to Z, Pardon, and Cutting Room. There's also lava, salt, and champagne. Plus two bad accents.

21/12/2021

New episode is up! Our second Hallmark Christmas movie, this one with a "supernatural element." This is the episode Michael Worth and I performed live on Zoom and Facebook, and it was a ton of. fun (contained more o***m than most Hallmark movies, I would think...). Check it out and please share so others can enjoy it too!

http://avishandmike.com/episodes/a-spirit-of-love/

08/12/2021

Yes, we are celebrating the holidays with our first ever Live Broadcast and Recording of the “In a World of...Improvised Movie Homages” Podcast. Watch it live and also have the opportunity to share your comments AND suggestions for the improv games!

23/11/2021

Do you like the movie "Aliens"? (Of course you do!). Do you like improv comedy? (Of course you do!!) Then you will love the latest episode of the "Improvised Movie Homages" Podcast, "Invaders." It's a sci-fi action horror tale in the style of Aliens, and boy, it was a ton of fun to perform. It is actually an older one - only the 6th or so episode we ever did, so it is a nice chance to see where we started and how the show has evolved. Check it our here: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/invaders/ (or use this link to find us on your favorite podcast app: http://avishandmike.com/subscribe/)

16/11/2021

Our latest episode is up! It is a "Planet of the Apes" Homage and is our first episode to feature a guest improviser! Our friend and fellow improv comedian Rick Horner joins us to pay homage to his favorite film franchise! Check it out here: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/land-of-the-giant-forest-iguanas/

This show features the improv games Limerick, Movie Trailer, 2-Word Typewriter, Monologues & Tempo (combined), Newsroom, and Cutting Room.

09/11/2021

New episode is up! This one is a “Survival Thriller” in the style of “The Edge” or “The Grey.” Only ours features giant crickets! Plus five improv games and a dash of romance. Check it out! http://avishandmike.com/episodes/floating-through-misery/

08/11/2021

Coming tomorrow: A New episode in the style of a Survival Thriller like The Edge or The Grey! Do you have a favorite Survival Movie?

02/11/2021

New episode! "Stealing Honor" - in the Style of a Reluctant Thief movie.
An "honorable thief" seeks to move on from his life of crime to a quieter life with his daughter but is forced back in to do one...more...job... You can check out the episode here: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/stealing-honor/

31/10/2021

Happy Halloween! If you haven't listened to our Halloween/Michael Myers themed episode, "Fallen Night of Terror," you can check it out here: http://avishandmike.com/episodes/fallen-night-of-terror/

31/10/2021

Our new episode comes out on Tuesday - an homage to "Reluctant Thief" movies where a (somewhat) honorable criminal who has left behind that life is forced back in for just one...more...job. Two examples are "Sabotage" and "Thief." Do you have a favorite in this genre?

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