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...pursuit of comedy...I think really harkening back to Dionysian values is where my heart is.” For Brener, exploring theater at Harvard has meant involvement with some of the college’s oldest groups, Hasty Pudding Theatricals and the improvisational group On Thin Ice (OTI). “The Hasty Pudding has the advantage of a tremendous amount of history and name recognition,” he says. “It’s by far the most professional experience you can have on this campus.” “I feel like...
...himself hasn’t had much time for comedy in the past three years due to his involvement with the a capella group the Din and Tonics and Hasty Pudding Theatricals.IMPROV-MENTSThe real hotbed of performance comedy at Harvard are its extracurricular improvisational comedy groups, On Thin Ice (OTI) and the Immediate Gratification Players (IGP).OTI—which specializes in comedy improv based around two-minute games à la TV’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”—will perform at the Demon ComedyFest. One of OTI?...
...Averell also performed with OTI and HPT during much of his Harvard career, and friends from those groups claim his presence was “legendary...
...John P. Blickstead ’06, President of HPT and a member of OTI, credits Averell for encouraging the then-freshman to try out for both organizations. He also recalls an incident of outrageous comedy that he feels was particularly representative of the Averell mystique...
...According to Blickstead, OTI went on a trip to an International House of Pancakes, where Averell started to laugh while drinking chocolate milk. The results were of scatological proportions...