Perfecting Stand-Up Comedy Using Quake?

TheNomad writes "Many of you probably know about Machinima, most easily described as 'filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment', but did you realise that some people are taking it a stage further, and performing improvised Machinima comedy live, using Quake II? There's an interview with the ILL Clan on Machinima.com, talking about their live Machinima work, of which the latest part is called 'Larry & Lenny on the Campaign Trail'."

Comments

I'd hardly call this "perfection"

[sinergy]

The medium of comedy is of no matter. Comedy is comedy; be it written, performed, filmed, or digitized.

Re:I'd hardly call this "perfection"

[sebi]

Very true. On the other hand the barrier to entry has been lowered considerably in the last couple of years. Whereas shitty stand-ups were confined to amateur nights in clubs and untalented writers had to photocopy their own drivel, nowadays everyone can just go on the internet.

The editorial process has moved from a handful of people (a small audience at most) to a whole world full of them. Some might welcome this development, but think about how many collective hours man has wasted by forcing thousands to figure out that something sucks on their own.

About the project from the article: I don't really know how you can perfect--or even improve--a stand-up routine without at least hearing the audience. Isn't that the most important metric? Hearing them laugh or stay quiet at certain parts of the performance? The audience typing some acronyms and emoticons can hardly have the same effect, can it?

Does it allow replacements for rotten fruit...

[Elivs]

When someone sucks does the audience get the option of shooting them with the nail gun, or preferably with double barrel shotgun at close range?

Rotten fruid at live performaces allows instant feedback to performers. Instant (and graphic) feedback can really usefull in live comedy!!

(Guess I'm likely right now that slashdot hasn't implemented such a feature for moderators)

Elivs

Re:Does it allow replacements for rotten fruit...

[M.C. Hampster]

No, it means we're going to get a bunch of second-rate comedian wannabe's making posts on Slashdot. <g>

Routine Wrap-Up

[Anonymous Coward]

You'll know when your comedy routine is almost over when you hear... "three frags left"

Why Quake?

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

I'm usually all for using Quake* over all other games, but wouldn't it be best to use something with a higher max player per server count and ingame voicecomm? You can always force all spectators into a Ventrilo/RogerWilco/etc server, but it would be much easier if done ingame.