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Hi there, it’s Les McGehee, I’m the guy who wrote Les McGhee’s Plays Well With Others,
and if you’ll notice on the book down there in gold, it says, games included. You’ll
notice I’m not there. Well, that’s true, but he is here and this is Murray Harvoy,
my friend and we’re in my living room because we’re doing a series of clips where we talk
about playing improv games with your family and friends in your own living environment,
not just professionally with your performer, friends or musician friends or in the workplace
where it’s used for training, teamwork issues, stuff like that. You can play this for fun
with your family and friends. That’s really what it’s, that's where the games came from
in the first place. So we’re going to try another example for you. Murray’s going
to play with me. Murray thinks of himself as quite an expert, and in his real life he
is an expert in a bunch of stuff but that won’t help him in this game. We’re going
to try some gibberish definitions. Hopefully you saw the other clips we made where we talked
about gibberish and good listening and gibberish and language techniques, but we’re just
going to make up gibberish words and then define them for each other and I’ll give
you a couple of pointers on the game after we try it. Now you want to give me my first,
I’ll give you the word first. I’ll give you a word okay? Oh, okay. Okay, how about
glutsnot? Glutsnot is the residue that the bread maker has to scrape off the table; it’s
that really sticky dough residue that has to be scraped off. Sounds tasty. Okay, could
you tell me the definition of burglesplat? That would be the left over remnants of a
McDonald’s Happy Meal. Oh, and sometimes even the residue on the toy, from China, oh,
that’s scary, it’s a Chinese toy. Current events joke, don’t know when you’re watching
this, but that’s a current event’s joke.