TED 8

Charlie Todd gave the talk.  The subject was the shared experience of absurdity.  He is an improv actor who has a organization called improveverywhere.  They go out into the city and play practical jokes on people that don't make fun of them or humiliate them in anyway, but ones that give them something to tell people and make them laugh.  One thing they did was one by one, at each stop, came onto the subway with no pants on and acted completely normal.  At the end of the 7 stops, a women gets on the train selling pants.  Another was they got a lot of people to buy blue polo shirts and cacky pants and stand around in Best Buy.  They also went into a building with 70 windows facing out toward the street and had 70 actors stand in each window and simultaneously do the same thing.  The thing Charlie loves about improv is the way it can make a persons day better or give them something to laugh about.  My impression of Charlie Todd is that he is a very funny, creative guy.  He is somebody I would be friends with!  After watching that video, I would love to get a bunch of people together and do improv acting!!