Embarrasingly Enough…
Since we’re on vacay and the home-focused posts will commence when we’re back on Monday (more on that here), we thought we owed you a laugh at our expense in the meantime. That’s right, Sherry’s notorious “Care Bear Underwear Story” that so many of you requested more details about (mentioned here) is out. It actually came out during a comedy show that we attended a few weeks ago. Remember how we’re not famous, but we were invited to have some fun in that local improv comedy show (which we mentioned here)?
Well – it was AWESOME. The performers of the Richmond Comedy Coalition were crazy nice and pretty darn funny. The audience was quite full, quite lively, and more than quite flattering (you guys made us feel like rock stars as we stood up there with sweaty palms). It was a blast meeting so many of you, and we’re still sorry the show sold out before everyone could get in. But on the bright side, the RCC has posted photos and video so everyone can check it out (you know, if you’re into that sort of thing).
The format was basically us standing up, turning our awkwardness meter up to 11, and telling personal stories. Then the performers would take tidbits of our anecdotes to inspire completely new improvised scenes (they weren’t exact reenactments, nor were there any scripts). For example, they took the story of Sherry accidentally turning around in Target with two ornaments next to her face saying “It’s Christmas tiiiiiiiime” to a stranger (more on that here)…
…and turned that into a scene about a guy with two tree toppers stuck into the sides of his face.
You may have “had to be there” to get most of why they had us rolling. But just trust us that it was a lot of fun – and you should totally catch one of their shows if you’re a local. Just look at the good times…
Since I was in an improv comedy group in college, they even pulled me on stage to perform during the last act of the show. I was more than a little rusty, though I did get a few laughs when my “Knit Cop” character knitted a pair of handcuffs to capture a perp (weird, I know – maybe you had to be there for that too).
Actually, they did catch Knit Cop on video if you want to see it in action. Warning: some of the language is a lot more saucy than our usual Clara videos and fast-motion assembling-or-decorating-something vids.
And here are longer clips of the show if you’re interested enough to watch all three acts (again: saucy language alert). We chat at the beginning of each clip to kick each scene off, and the famed Care Bear Underwear Story is at the beginning-ish of the last clip.
It was so great to meet so many of you guys after the show. So glad we did it, sweaty palms and all.
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hahaha, good stuff – thanks, I definitely needed a good laugh today!
That sounds like fun. I don’t think I would have the guts to do anything like that.
You guys are crazy adorable :)
Awesome! As a former college theatre and improv person, my appreciation of both of y’alls hidden skills just went through the roof!
(confidential to Sherry: All that, and he does comedy improv, too? You are one lucky, lucky girl!)
(confidential to John: She’s willing to re-tell the Target ornament story in public for laughs, and has that killer smile? You are one lucky, lucky boy!)
Aw thanks Julie Anne!
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s
Loved hearing this–hysterically funny !!
You guys did great! Looks like you had tons of fun!
I may have just peed my pants laughing at these! In a good way, of course.
You guys are too funny! Loved it. Enjoy your week in Hawaii!
LOL. Oh, thats not so bad. I once had a McSteamy walk into my patient room at the doctors office. He asked, “What’s wrong?” And I said, “I dunno?… I don’t feel so good…”, made a dreadful face, then puked orange juice ALL OVER his nice white jacket. Yeah! Talk about dyyyyying of embarassment.
Ooooh, that’s bad.
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s
I will so be watching this later! Hope you’re getting a tan!
Ha Ha, funny how no matter where you are from or your parents for that matter, they are always saying stuff like that.
I am from Colombia and I remember my mom saying that to me when I was a little girl, hahah I may say it to my daughter now!!!
Thanks for the clips, I had a good laugh!!!
That’s so funny! It’s an international occurrence.
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s
This is hysterical! Laughed out loud (or is it aloud?) hearing your Care Bears story!! Thanks for sharing!! Looks like it was a lot of fun. :)
Somewhere a Mrs McSteamy is watching this yelling “Honey, you know that story you always tell at the dinner parties about the girl with the underwear…”
Bwahahahahahahahahahhahahahaha. That’s a whole new nightmare you just created in my mind…
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s
hilarious!!!
You guys are soooo funny. Omg! lol thanks for sharing! :)
Just wanted to tell you guys how much I appreciate that your links open up to new windows. Not every blog does that, and I love that I can click on the numerous links on your posts and easily go back to the original one I was reading without having to hit the back button a million times. Thanks for doing that!
Aw, you’re sweet Kris! So glad.
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s
I totally agree Kris – it seems like a small thing, but it’s those small things that make such a difference!
Ohh I agree, I agree!! I hate when it doesnt do that!!!!
You guys are seriously funny! The Care Bear story was hilarious. Oh boy, my mom told me the SAME thing and I obviously didn’t listen! Last week I strained my back at work (obviously not planned) and I had to go to a workman’s comp clinic to get x-rays of my back. I had to change into an incredibly revealing robe, and to keep this PG, let me just tell you my underwear was the um, opposite of Care Bear underwear. I was absolutely mortified and couldn’t look the x-ray tech in the eye! To make matters worse, the doctor was in the other room (with a window that all x-ray/CT scan rooms have, I can’t remember the technical name it!) and it turns out he was the father of one of my friends. There aren’t words to describe how embarrassing that is! It’s easy to tell this story (semi anonymously!) on the internet, but it takes guts to tell it on stage in front of people :) hope you guys are having an awesome vacation!
Oh man! That sounds terrifying and hilarious all at the same time! So glad you survived and hope your back is ok!
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s
These are HILARIOUS! John you’re great at Improv! Sherry, that underwear story was SO FUNNY!
I was hoping you two would be doing a post about the show!!! You guys were hilarious and it was just lovely to meet you! We went to the Richmond Famous show again the other night featuring the Richmond Beard League and the improv was great as ever, but there was no knit cop, so clearly it wasn’t quite as great…..
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Aw, man so sad we missed the Beard League!
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s
How fun! When I was in college I used to go to this great improv place in Orlando. Loved it! It looks like you guys had a great time.
Fantastic. Fantastic. Fantastic!!! Hope you are having fun in Hawaii!!!!
I loved the care bear underwear story! I actually found you guys funnier than the improv. :)
I can totally relate to talking to much when nervous. So I really did laugh out loud at the “quit talking!”
I have said that to my self sooo many times!
You guys are SO cute. Hope you’re enjoying yourselves, thank you for forcing me to be productive this week! (Minus the 45 minutes I just spent watching those clips haha).
Haha, oh yes, aside from that!
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s
can’t wait for the r rated saucy house life.
party on.
MORE KNIT COP!
:-D
The show was so fun, you guys did a great job. I see me in the group shot! LOL.
Haha, thanks for coming Sara!
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s
Haha I can’t wait to watch these when I get home. Amazing!
This has nothing to do with this post but I wasn’t sure where else to put it…I was browsing Craigslist Richmond and ran across these curtains that match your stuff( I believe) http://richmond.craigslist.org/hsh/2839337530.html
Just wanted to give you the heads up. Hope vacay is going great!
No way! I love them! They’re the exact same fabric as ours!
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s
This is unrelated to your blog post but I saw it and thought of your love for gold bling. It’s a post on the blog Better After.
http://betterafter.blogspot.com/2012/02/taking-shape-with-painters-tape.html
Amazing! I love it!
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s
You guys have serious gonads. I could never do that! *bowing to you both!*
Aw thanks! It was all John. Even up to the last minute I was like “can’t I just sit in the audience?” but John made me! So glad he did though, it was fun!
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s
Quit Talking is seriously an everyday occurence I say to myself.. glad there is other people out there that have the same problem when nervous or whatever! LOL.
hahaha.. you two are adorable!
Oh, and I love the Care Bear underwear story. :P
Thanks for posting the videos. I really wanted to go to the show but was hit by a tow truck on Robious Rd 2 days before. My injuries were minor, but I was still sore so couldn’t go. Glad I got a chance to see what I missed! Hope you are enjoying your vacation!
Oh my gosh, so glad you’re ok!
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s
Excellent. You guys did great!
Love it – thanks for a huge laugh this morning! Is there anything you guys can’t do??
Keep our toddler quiet! Haha. She is jabbering to every stranger we pass here and saying things like “buh bye lady! buh bye ice cream! buh bye motorcycle!”
xo,
s
Hahaha so I haven’t even gotten to the videos yet, but Sherry’s face sure did get me! That would have been so much fun to see live.
You guys are too funny! And such courage to go up in front of an audience and spill on your embarrassing stories. Sherri – that care bear underwear story is hilarious! And thanks for sharing the videos. I feel like I got a free night at the improv!
It was so great meeting you guys! I wholeheartedly apologize for my super awkward Jersey Turnpike Exit conversation… Don’t worry, Sherry, you aren’t the only awkward Jersey girl residing in VA :)
Haha, so great to meet you Trish!
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s
Sherry, I feel your hot doctor pain. I was going in for my third ankle reconstruction and I happened to have this insanely hot doctor, and I was only about 17. He was about 40 and would be classified as McSteamy without a doubt. Needless to say, there were residents working with him. My mom was laughing at me because I kept saying how good looking he was when he left the room.
Fast forward to me getting a sedative and the residents coming in to check on me, and then the doctor coming in and me flirting with him (totally not me) in a joking way, in front of all the residents.
Well needless to say, you only remember so much after they give you that medicine. After the surgery no resident could come into the room to check on me without laughing (and I was on a morphine like drug after the surgery – to up the anty on this story). The doctor could barely look me in the eye and keep himself composed when he came in to check on me after the surgery.
Weeks later when he was cutting my cast off he kept laughing but out of respect wouldn’t tell my mother what happened. I kept apologizing profusely.
I saw him a few years later I went in to have something checked out with it, and he popped his head in and said he “had to say hi” to me.
To this day, Sherry. I have NO IDEA what I said to that man. All I know is that I must have blatantly been hitting on him, in front of all of the residents & surgical techs before I was officially knocked out – and that the story got around.
I’ll take care bear underwear any day haha.
Hahahha, that’s hilarious! I love that years later popped in to visit you. You must have made quite an impression. Hahahaha.
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s
Check out the new bathroom tile job on House Tweaking. I see similar penny tile….
LOVE it!
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s
BAHAHAHAAH holy freaking crap I had to tune in for the carebear underwear story. Love it!!
I’ve had a 1.5 glasses of wine so now I have to share this…. hoping no one I know reads this random comment thread… but once, in my college years, I was wearing George W. Bush underwear (do not ask… LONG story) and became, umm, “friendly”, with, umm, a gentleman, and had to explain it. AWFUL. TRAUMATIZING.
Bwahahahahahahah, I can’t even imagine trying to explain that.
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s
First, I awkwardly met Lil’ Jon.
Then, I awkwardly met ya’ll.
And finally, my face has awkwardly made it on YHL.
Bucket list is now complete.
Thank you, Knit Cop and partner-in-crime Sher-Dog, for making my awkward dreams come true.
Hahahahahha. Mission accomplished.
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s
Oh my gosh, I just watched the videos and laughed so hard I cried. The care bear underwear (which was told brilliantly, I might add) and the Knit Cop knitting handcuffs were the funniest things I have seen/heard in a long time. You guys are awesome! Hope you are having a fantastic (and RESTFUL) vacation.
Aw thanks Whitney! I still call John Knit Cop sometimes. Hah.
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s
You keep saying you’re so awkward, but you just seem funny and awesome. I love that you’re not afraid to show your quirks and giggle over the randomness in your life. Thanks so much for sharing! :)
I cant decide which scene made me laugh/cry harder – Knit Cop or Care Bear Underwear! Your timing is great! Enjoy your time away – Hawaii is amazing!
Oh man, I am so SO glad you guys shared those videos. Hi-larious!
Sherry, you are too damn cute for words. Props for sharing the Care Bear story. I used to have Hulk underpants and I, too, wore them “ironically”. I also bought them in the little boys department at Macys. They were not flattering.
John, your handcuff knitting was an act of pure improv genius. Nicely done.
Yay for video! This was so fun to watch. Really, you guys are not awkward in public, especially together – you really work well. I understand the one-sided nature of readers coming up to you & having all these details to appreciate & you guys have nothing, but would you prefer we said “hi” or just left you be? Would you approach one of your favourite bloggers that didn’t know you?
Oh yes! Come see us! We’re so bummed when we get comments or emails like “I saw you at Target/Home Depot/the river/the park but didn’t say hi” – we definitely love to meet you guys! It’s so much fun to put a face to a name! We definitely have dorkily run up to other bloggers like Grace Bonney to nervously say hi!
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s
HAHA! SO glad you guys shared this!! I can’t watch it now but I will be checking it out as soon as I get home this evening!!! Hmm… or maybe on my lunch break…
And Aloha over there in Hawaii! ;)
Wierd fact.. I was born in Oahu… in the pink hospital that was bombed in the movie Pearl Harbor.. moved when I was 3 – wish I could have stayed longer! lol
Oh man, wish we could have checked out Oahu! It sounds so cool! John has been there and loved it.
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s
John, your “Knit Cop” improv was inspired! So funny!!
That looks like a lot of fun , i just wish they something like that here in va, may be i’ll go to richmond for a weekend to see them, just have to convince the hubby. lol
I will see your carebear underwear story and raise you this little gem…when I was about 16 I was over at a friends house and we had hung out for a while but this was like the 5th time I’d ever been to her house and we were being goofy in the kitchen and listening to music and her mom came in and my friend told me to show her mom how I could ‘drop it like its hot’ (sidenote: I can’t dance, not even kind of) and so I proceeded to get ready to show my moves and right as I ‘dropped it’ my jeans ripped up the butt and down my leg showing basically all of my underwear glory. I popped up, and turned around to not only see my friend and her mom…but her older brother (who id never met) and dad too. It was like a family of just horrified, we-dont-want-to-laugh-but-its-impossible-not-too faces staring back at me.
Oh maaaaan. That’s a good one.
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