SKIBADABOMSKI
20th November 2012, 15:51
Today was a special day.
We were booked to do a show in a prison. This is the first time that Japan has allowed street entertainers or any style of comedy into any facility of this kind.
We had organized this ourselves and found one prison interested.
Photo's weren't allowed for obvious reasons but a photographer was seen taking snaps of us and the pictures will most probably stay inside.
I was weary but excited and we had quite a dark show lined up which I won't go into much detail about but the boss of this prison was nearly crying with laughter when I pretended to pull a small bag of cocaine from an inmates shoe and called the guards.
It's very difficult to explain but these people were the purest adult audience I have ever entertained. They laughed through their hearts instead of their guts.
They were very weary of us. All 800 of them sat separately with different colored overalls indicating different crimes in which I insisted on not knowing.
They practically laughed throughout the entire show and were all ordered to sit down throughout the entire performance but at the end they refused orders and all stood up giving me my first ever standing ovation.
This was about several hours ago and I can't stop thinking about why the energy was so amazing. Japanese and all asian prisons can be very brutal and strict and I could see in their eyes the types of life they have lived. (not too different than mine)
Then tonight the boss man calls us up and says that he is sending us a certificate of merit for opening the doors to a new way of reforming and inspiring inmates. Apparently the inmates were all copying what we did and have been raving about it and I can feel it.
Don't really know why I'm making a thread about this but I feel that I learned a lot of things today. Especially about the ego and how fake and dumb the rich really are. But most importantly hearing laughter come from the heart instead of gormless gut laughter was priceless.
I can see and feel peoples energy whilst performing and have performed globally for 20 years but never have I experienced anything like today.
Thanks for reading.
As you were...
Ski-
We were booked to do a show in a prison. This is the first time that Japan has allowed street entertainers or any style of comedy into any facility of this kind.
We had organized this ourselves and found one prison interested.
Photo's weren't allowed for obvious reasons but a photographer was seen taking snaps of us and the pictures will most probably stay inside.
I was weary but excited and we had quite a dark show lined up which I won't go into much detail about but the boss of this prison was nearly crying with laughter when I pretended to pull a small bag of cocaine from an inmates shoe and called the guards.
It's very difficult to explain but these people were the purest adult audience I have ever entertained. They laughed through their hearts instead of their guts.
They were very weary of us. All 800 of them sat separately with different colored overalls indicating different crimes in which I insisted on not knowing.
They practically laughed throughout the entire show and were all ordered to sit down throughout the entire performance but at the end they refused orders and all stood up giving me my first ever standing ovation.
This was about several hours ago and I can't stop thinking about why the energy was so amazing. Japanese and all asian prisons can be very brutal and strict and I could see in their eyes the types of life they have lived. (not too different than mine)
Then tonight the boss man calls us up and says that he is sending us a certificate of merit for opening the doors to a new way of reforming and inspiring inmates. Apparently the inmates were all copying what we did and have been raving about it and I can feel it.
Don't really know why I'm making a thread about this but I feel that I learned a lot of things today. Especially about the ego and how fake and dumb the rich really are. But most importantly hearing laughter come from the heart instead of gormless gut laughter was priceless.
I can see and feel peoples energy whilst performing and have performed globally for 20 years but never have I experienced anything like today.
Thanks for reading.
As you were...
Ski-