Word: couchful
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Both plays are surreal, to say the least. In Kiddie Pool, the characters are never referred to by name and so instead are identified by their locations: Couch (Shawn H. Snyder ’03) and Pool (Robert A. Hodgson ’05). Margo says that he chose the title of his play because, as an actor, he has always wanted to be “playing with goop, sitting in a pool, climbing up things, fighting with swords...stuff like that,” rather than just standing and reciting his lines. “Kiddie pools...
Unfortunately, there is no actual kiddie pool in Kiddie Pool. Margo says he was unable to find one. Instead, one character draws the pool on stage with chalk. Pool, the grown man in the imaginary kiddie pool, is then propositioned by Couch...
...huge cock. (silence) Do you have a big cock?” Couch asks him in the opening line of the play...
Next up is Robert Klein, wearing a sweater and saddle shoes, performing before a college audience. Seinfeld chuckles as Klein talks about sliding down the couch on the Tonight Show. Seinfeld recalls that when he first saw Klein perform, "I said to myself, 'I could do that.' The way he looked at the world was funny. He had a point of view. That's stand-up. And at the time, I didn't even know how to get a tuxedo...
...admits he applied for housing late—“I was writing my thesis and wasn’t really worried about Harvard housing,” he says—moved into his room in DeWolfe on Oct. 1. Until then, he crashed on a couch in the Claverly suite of a high school friend, Philip M. Hodges ’04. “It was good because I had someone to show me around, but obviously I was kind of a nuisance. I was known in Claverly as the kid who sleeps on Phil?...