Funny ad-libs

What are some funny ad-libs you've heard? (And NO, I did not search...)

Most recent funny one for me was at EMERALD MAN on Saturday. Kate McCann couldn't get the phone back on it's hook. She just flung it onto the counter. A few minutes later, it rang as it was supposed to. She walked back out and went "That damn phone even rings when it's off the hook!"

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Jackie Hoffman is the queen

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In Dirty Rotten Soundrels the night before Norbert and Jonathon's last show, Greg Jbara was late for an entrance and they ad-libbed something that I can't remember because it seemed real but then they ran out of thigns to say so Jonathon was like and there is an actor who should be making an entrance any moment now. Then when he entered Norbert said How did you know that was going to happen?? Jonathon responded I dono I dono I just I dono.

If anyone has the newest Playbill Broadway Yearbook, Mylinda Hull talks about the adlib with Norbert and the elderly couple visibly walking out after Dirty Rotten Number. Well, I was there for that performance and can honestly say it was one of the funniest ad-libs ever.

For those who do not have the yearbook, I'll explain. After Norbert and Jonathan had just delivered a very powerful Dirty Rotten Number and everyone was clapping and cheering, an elderly couple must have assumed the show was finished and hurried out to beat the crowds. Well, everyone saw the couple exiting and burst into laughter. I don't know how he did it, but Norbert kept a straight face and waved them off (all the while mimicing the woman's walk) and said to Jonathan, "Well, they certainly aren't leaving 'cause of me." and then the audience roared with laughter yet again.

Another DRS ad-lib: Norbert wheeled out during The More We Dance and someone walked into him and the wheelchair and he said, "Hey, watch it! This is a 5,000 dollar chair!" Now, his mic was off so I don't know if he said that all the time... but being in the first row, I heard it for the first time and laughed really hard.

i've mentioned both of these but i'll do it again

At the producers Nathan threw his jacket behind him and it landed on the doornob (or maybe a coat hanger idr) he looked shocked then goes "I still got it" it doesn't sound that funny but it was a really good delivery

At History boys when Timms and lockwood were doing the scene from the movie where they smoke, the mathes woudnt light so Andrew just fiddled with them a bit then everyone just cracked up and they had to pretend to smoke

Natthew?

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I have a few from The Producers. I saw a matinee with Richard Kind and Alan Ruck on Passover, and during Betrayed, Richard Kind turns to the audience and says, "So. How many of you Jews are skipping Passover tonight?" I also saw Roger Bart as Leo a few weeks ago and at the end during Prisoners of Love, he shouts to the prisoners, "Now just the pedophiles!!!" I don't know for sure if that's an ad lib, but he looked like he was trying not to laugh, so maybe.

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When I saw DRS, during Great Big Stuff when the mansion set starts turning Norbert yelled out "Holy crap! It turns!" It was awesome.

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"When I saw DRS, during Great Big Stuff when the mansion set starts turning Norbert yelled out "Holy crap! It turns!" It was awesome."

That wasn't an ad-lib. . . he always says that. He did it during the Tony performance, too.

Funny though, when I saw DRS, I felt like so many things were ad-libbed. They seemed so completely off the cuff and hilarious. Like the "okay. . . L-A-H-O-M-A" thing when Andre starts laughing too. . . I completely thought that was ad-libbed and then found out it wasn't. To give them credit, though, those lines seem very fresh. . . completely new, so they had me convinced. :)

Another Hairspray one, also with John Pinette & Stephen DeRosa. In "You're Timeless to Me" during the dialogue in the song, John's boobs had somehow fell lopsided. Stephen noticed this and was obviously trying not to laugh. During a a break in the dialogue, John looked down to see what he was laughing at, realised, looked back up to Stephen and abruptly fixed his boobs. The pair of them burst out laughing and continued to do so even as they walked off stage in the blackout after the song.
It was hilarious.

One of my fav ad-libs is actually one I didn't even hear myself, but rather from this Wicked review that DG2 posted, about the bubble malfunction that stopped the L.A. show, and how later in the cornfield scene the line became "Well, we can't all come and go by bubble.....and apparently NEITHER CAN YOU!"

For some reason that line still cracks me up to this day.


Bubble malfunction story

At Kristin's last performance in Wicked . . . instead of "Come with me to the Emerald City" Idina said, "Stay with me. I'm going to miss you. Oz will never be the same." So sweet.

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I did a production of YAGMCB where our Charlie would ad lib on a line in the glee club rehearsal scene ecah night.

"Sorry we're late, snoopy was in a bidding war on e-bay"
"Sorry we're late, snoopy was getting his back waxed"

I did Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when I was in High School. Something went awal druing the Mike TeeVee/TV room scene and the fire alarm suddenly went off. It stopped the show for about 10 minutes. We started right where we left off, and our Willy Wonka said, "I told you not to touch that, Mike!"

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