Other titles include: That bit of improv Joey did in The Trail to Oregon When Jeff Blim Broke Character How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
there's another bit on another digital ticket going around somewhere and joey's just like "my vocal coach says i breath at the wrong times" a true masterpiece
Everyone’s asking for Working Boys and Santa Claus is Going to High School, I’m still waiting for Wagons,Whiskey, and Women: One General Store Guy’s Journey Down The Oregon Trail!
They went with the alternate title! Unfortunately General Store Man was robbed of the lead, and it was given to that bitch Daniel Radcliffe. What a shame.
@@charlotteemily22 Nah making each other crack is the best. Not least cos sometimes you get some great material like an extra joke or an idea for a new scene 😉
I just ADORE the look on Jeff's face. That's the look of a man who adores his talented friend and is SO proud of him, but at the same time how dare he improv a bit funnier than the things he, the writer, writes
He improvised this part every night with something different and since Jamie was supposed to be hiding her face any way she would just bury her face in his back and laugh and that’s why he almost cracked for a sec cuz he could feel her laughing.
My favorite thing about this show in particular was that over the course of the run it just got longer and longer and longer. Absolutely chaotic. What a great show.
I've only now learned that "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" is a play which Darren Criss replaced Daniel Radcliffe in and I truly think that's the funniest and cutest reference
@@SageShadows I'm so sorry! That reply wasn't meant for this comment I just messed up when I was going through them all because I had so many recently. That reply was actually meant for another comment that's been deleted!
It's scripted improv. That scene is improvised every night, so while it is improv, they already know it will be improvised. So still really impressive, but they're all ready for something.
I really love how Jeff almost breaks character at Joey’s improv response. It’s like he’s trying to keep it together and at the same time he looks proud of Joey. 😂😂❤
So this one time during a play this guy had a horn and the sound crew played a sound affect for it (he wakes everyone up by playing it) so he set it down on a table that an actor is by and as he walks away the trumpet sound plays. He whips around runs up to the actor next to the trumpet and goes, “were you palyin my trumpet?!?” And now that’s like the biggest inside joke in drama at my school
At my school in the music man zanneta didn’t come out in time when they were going on a date so he asked the actors in the background if they knew where she was and the guy gave a whole improv speech about how he shouldn’t try to date the mayors daughter and “there are plenty of fish in the sea” it was at a dress rehearsal o it was only in front of the cast and crew, but it was hilarious because we all knew that wasn’t supposed to happen!
@@emilyetc.6547 when Joey says "How to Succeed in Business without really trying" - - that's a Broadway musical that Darren starred in around the time the Trail to Oregon was in live theaters
@themedia Radcliffe originated the role in the HTSIBWRT revival which is why he performed at the Tony’s. Darren was one of the chosen step-ins after Daniel left!
I still think best improv I've seen was an actress in my local production of hairspray getting hit in the face with a ball mid-line and playing it off.
I so agree about Jeff's singing. He is using his natural range, which is great because he sounds so much better than when he does the whiney stuff like in What do you want, Paul.
@@sarahkinsey5434 I agree - some of the stuff he did in Twisted was weird but it suited his character. He then took something that people likes in one show and presumed they would like it if he did it for everything
trail to oregon is so iconic. i feel like it has the most recorded bloopers of all the starkid shows. this is the golden era of starkid imo, when they were just theater kids messing around on stage and being absolutely stupid and it wasn't about quality. i mean don't get me wrong i love that they've expanded and gotten more talented over the years. but trail to oregon is just this pocket dimension of transcendental theater kid goofiness that i'll never get over.
I was in a play and my line was the one before the music turned in and I had a solo at first. The music was having a problem and I started walking around (I was the bad guy) and I kept looking at the audience and said ‘You thought that there was gonna be music, now didn’t you?’
According to the drama club alumni in my school, once in the drama club an actor was supposed to shoot a blank in a gun duel, but someone loaded it with an actual shot. Thankfully, they were able to notice it before it was time to pull the trigger, so the actor played it off like the gun wasn’t loaded and did a whole improve scene on how the gun was not good enough for the supposed “best shot in the west” and had them give him a different gun. It was all super smooth and didn’t feel even a bit out of place. Wish I could’ve been there to see it.
Ohhhh boy having a real gun with blanks pointed at an actor is so wildly against the rules in professional theatre let alone school shows this gives me anxiety
One night when my school did Guys and Dolls, our lead actress forgot the words to a song halfway through it. Like, all the remaining words. She just improvised the rest, playing into the fact that her character was drunk, and made it through. It was absolutely insane.
i was tracy in a production of hairspray and started a quick change before it was time. i had to go onstage right away, and while i panicked in the back, my lovely cast mates managed to improvise the funniest scene. the actress who played mrs. turnblad ran around the stage yelling “where’s my daughter???” because it was right out of the jail scene. to this day i am so thankful that they were there to back me up.
I can't tell whether Jamie was hugging him as a character or just genuinely trying to make him feel better. Probably because I've never seen the full show.
I still think the best bit of improv was in a play I saw in high school. One of my friends was cast as the lead, and in one scene, he gives a pearl necklace to the love interest. It was closing night, and the necklace broke. He brushed it off very well, but the funny part was later. During an entirely different scene, something else broke. A broom I think. And Brian goes “first the pearls, now this?” And it was very funny.
During Wizard of Oz, after the Cowardly Lion’s “my father took me up on a high mountain” speech (bear in mind he’s holding Toto up like Rafiki), all the other characters dropped to their knees and started singing “Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba!” From the Lion King. They re-enacted the beginning of circle of life!
I love when performers go 'nope! nope.' as a response to fucking up or something. It's so funny and doesn't break flow and I've started using it myself. It's so helpful!
I'm so bad at improv but my greatest moment was when I was in middle school. We were doing Huckleberry Finn. And I got the lead, Huck. An interesting fact is that Huckleberry hates wearing or being proper, so he got a song about his much he hates wearing shoes and how theyre a sin to the earth and whatnot. During the first night, the song wouldn't come on for the tech team and I, in a state of mild panic, tried to make a joke and just went "shoes, right?" I continued for a tad bit afterwards but I got the audience to laugh at the first line and that's all that matters
My favourite is when during a show one of our actors collapsed side stage during a chaotic chase scene,so me and my friend had to improvise half this heavily choreographed section to make it look natural...
not on stage, but in the movie "Saving Private Ryan" Matt Damon's character rambles on about a childhood memory in a lot of detail to Tom Hank's character. You can actually see Tom Hanks looking off camera for a second to Stephen Spielberg as if to say "wtf is going on" because Matt improvised the whole thing.
Spiderman turn off the dark, halfway through the preview that critics went to right at the confrontation between Spiderman and green goblin the stage manager said and hold, for technical difficulties. Reeve went over to drink goblins champagne. Patrick Page as a last second quick thinking said. “Y-you better watch yourself with that champagne boy, you’re gonna be flying soon and I hear people drop off.” Or something like that. The house came down. Best improv.
the first time i saw joey's singing one from trail to oregon i thought the voice crack was the goof, not the improv afterward. it took me watching like three different versions to get it 😂
there's another bit on another digital ticket going around somewhere and joey's just like "my vocal coach says i breath at the wrong times" a true masterpiece
I wish I'd had access to it when I made the video
we love that
I can see the adorable mannerisms in his face
The soundtrack has him saying "I know you just inspired me" or something
working boys...
"You'd be a good ensemble" says the guy who's literally the entire ensemble of Trail to Oregon.
I love Joey.
Jamie's bonnet bobbing as she silently cracks gets me every time.
Yep, me too
*gasp*
I thought she was whispering to him for so long 😂
And her patting his chest like 'there there' or 'good job, buddy.'
I love how Joey just smirks at Jeff after like he k n o w s Jeff is breaking it's so funny
to be fair he could also probably hear/feel jaime absolutely losing it behind him
@@caspercascade4623Yeah you can see her shaking behind him
I rescind my prior statement
“Cause IiiiiIIIIIIIiiiiiIiiiiiIIIIII nope”
When I showed this to my little bro for the first time he thought it was Whitney Houston! ;)
Me when trying to hit a note while belting
I love how he says "in *west siide sstory*"
i had no idea it was improv lmao
I thought that was scripted? You're telling me he was actually expected to hit that note? Lmaoooo
Everyone’s asking for Working Boys and Santa Claus is Going to High School, I’m still waiting for Wagons,Whiskey, and Women: One General Store Guy’s Journey Down The Oregon Trail!
Amber Page honestly same
Amber Page I spy an Ann Boleyn
Ace Q sorry not sorry!
They went with the alternate title! Unfortunately General Store Man was robbed of the lead, and it was given to that bitch Daniel Radcliffe. What a shame.
Casey Miller Damn, so disappointing!
In the studio recordings Joey says, "You were really an inspiration to me," it's adorable.
Kick it up a Notch Awwwww
The best improv is when they try to crack other actors 😂😂
Unless it's you they're trying crack!
i do that to my fellow actors all the time
they would hate me but they’re obliged to love me
@@charlotteemily22 Nah making each other crack is the best. Not least cos sometimes you get some great material like an extra joke or an idea for a new scene 😉
I just ADORE the look on Jeff's face. That's the look of a man who adores his talented friend and is SO proud of him, but at the same time how dare he improv a bit funnier than the things he, the writer, writes
I love how during when joeys saying hed played Tony, jeffs look just communicates "what the fricken frickity frick are you doing"
It's almost like he was worried he was gonna start singing or something
He should have it would have been magnificent
Joey Richter is a gift to the world and deserves so much love.
And that is what you call a fact
He deserves nothing less than all the money and adoration in the world
@@QteaTheSwag Accurate.
@@charlotteemily22 He's just... he's great.
I heard in the comment section of another video that they improv a different thing every time they do this scene but I haven't fact-checked it
That's what I was thinking!
Yep, I believe that's the case but I don't have clips of all the shows so I'm not sure
If they release this one to be performed by other troupes it will presumably be noted in the script if it's imrpoved.
He improvised this part every night with something different and since Jamie was supposed to be hiding her face any way she would just bury her face in his back and laugh and that’s why he almost cracked for a sec cuz he could feel her laughing.
hey 1k buddy
on the soundtrack, he said something like "its just that you did it, you know... and i dont know... it was just a big inspiration to me..."
Cool!
My favorite thing about this show in particular was that over the course of the run it just got longer and longer and longer. Absolutely chaotic. What a great show.
I've only now learned that "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" is a play which Darren Criss replaced Daniel Radcliffe in and I truly think that's the funniest and cutest reference
omg thats real! that is the funniest thing!
the smile that creeps onto his face after “it’s like big fish small pond but i was proud” is just amazing
There’s lots to learn
Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho HA!!!
Ox like me
Gacha Nugget 10 now unfortunately that one was scripted
@@charlotteemily22 no it wasn't, joey just forgot his words
@@SageShadows I'm so sorry! That reply wasn't meant for this comment I just messed up when I was going through them all because I had so many recently. That reply was actually meant for another comment that's been deleted!
Best bit of improv I’ve ever seen.
MOO
That’s improv? That’s amazing!!!
That second one is great and should be a cannon scene
Yep! ;)
@@Foxy02016 Yeah, but then it wouldn't have been quite so impressive, but it is an incredible section
It's scripted improv. That scene is improvised every night, so while it is improv, they already know it will be improvised. So still really impressive, but they're all ready for something.
He still stronger than you
I really love how Jeff almost breaks character at Joey’s improv response. It’s like he’s trying to keep it together and at the same time he looks proud of Joey. 😂😂❤
You can see Jaime’s reaction just from her hands.
in conclusion, joey is a legend
That was just the introduction to his awesomeness
We been knew
How to succeed in Business without really trying!!!?? AHHHHH They will always find some way to make fun of Daren Criss in their shows. lmao
Jeff's pure smile as he tries not to laugh at Joey makes my life brighter.
So this one time during a play this guy had a horn and the sound crew played a sound affect for it (he wakes everyone up by playing it) so he set it down on a table that an actor is by and as he walks away the trumpet sound plays. He whips around runs up to the actor next to the trumpet and goes, “were you palyin my trumpet?!?” And now that’s like the biggest inside joke in drama at my school
Cool!
Odemay Arts that it totally awesome!
At my school in the music man zanneta didn’t come out in time when they were going on a date so he asked the actors in the background if they knew where she was and the guy gave a whole improv speech about how he shouldn’t try to date the mayors daughter and “there are plenty of fish in the sea” it was at a dress rehearsal o it was only in front of the cast and crew, but it was hilarious because we all knew that wasn’t supposed to happen!
@@annav6037 Love when that stuff happens
No one:
Not a soul:
Joey: I will pepper in a jab at Darren
Hannah Farquhar when does that happen?
@@emilyetc.6547 when Joey says "How to Succeed in Business without really trying" - - that's a Broadway musical that Darren starred in around the time the Trail to Oregon was in live theaters
@@Emosoragurl21 Thank you!
@@Emosoragurl21 it makes sense that Darren was in that since he played Harry Potter and Daniel Radlciffe performed a scene from HTSIBWRT at the Tonys
@themedia Radcliffe originated the role in the HTSIBWRT revival which is why he performed at the Tony’s. Darren was one of the chosen step-ins after Daniel left!
So let me get this straight: everything up to and including the botched note was scripted, just the dialogue after was improv right?
Yeah that's right
I thought none of its scripted. Its only if he messes up
MegaSocky no the mess up is scripted, Joey can easily hit that note.
@@amberpage7936 he can absolutely hit it. The man channeled Mercury in Sidekick
@@simien896 Wait.. there's more starkid stuff I didn't know about? What is this "Sidekick" business, if I may ask?
I just think of the cop he played on Jessie who loved improv 😂
My non-Starkid fan friends even know who he is because of Jessie
Oh my god you just unlocked a whole section of memory in brain that I forogt
@@specs_strum8405 lol
@@specs_strum8405 why did you use asterisks
oh my god what?!
I still think best improv I've seen was an actress in my local production of hairspray getting hit in the face with a ball mid-line and playing it off.
That is one talented girl
every time I listen to the recording of this song (which is 10/10 some of jeff Blim's best singing) I'm like YOU FIENDS WHERE IS THE FINESSE
I so agree about Jeff's singing. He is using his natural range, which is great because he sounds so much better than when he does the whiney stuff like in What do you want, Paul.
Charlotte Emily I could do without his weird inflections and extra-ness. He has a great voice (ie Twisted) but the weird things he does ruin it for me
@@sarahkinsey5434 I agree - some of the stuff he did in Twisted was weird but it suited his character. He then took something that people likes in one show and presumed they would like it if he did it for everything
@@charlotteemily22 I want to see a show where he's the only sane character
Charlotte Emily he did it too much in TTO and TGWDLM
My fav improv from starkid is when Joey can't get the poster off the wall
BloxyGacha_Katmc it’s stuck on with magic!
that's not improv. that was scripted (it's very well acted)
trail to oregon is so iconic. i feel like it has the most recorded bloopers of all the starkid shows. this is the golden era of starkid imo, when they were just theater kids messing around on stage and being absolutely stupid and it wasn't about quality. i mean don't get me wrong i love that they've expanded and gotten more talented over the years. but trail to oregon is just this pocket dimension of transcendental theater kid goofiness that i'll never get over.
"How to succeed in business without really trying"
*Business majors have entered the chat*
I was in a play and my line was the one before the music turned in and I had a solo at first. The music was having a problem and I started walking around (I was the bad guy) and I kept looking at the audience and said ‘You thought that there was gonna be music, now didn’t you?’
That would have scared the crap out of me hahaha.
@@halfpintrr, I tend to be the person that works well with improv. It makes for a ton of giggles in the wings!
According to the drama club alumni in my school, once in the drama club an actor was supposed to shoot a blank in a gun duel, but someone loaded it with an actual shot. Thankfully, they were able to notice it before it was time to pull the trigger, so the actor played it off like the gun wasn’t loaded and did a whole improve scene on how the gun was not good enough for the supposed “best shot in the west” and had them give him a different gun. It was all super smooth and didn’t feel even a bit out of place. Wish I could’ve been there to see it.
Woaahhh! I'm glad they realised in time. Think of the paperwork!
I’m confused. It was a real gun? In a school show? That had bullets in it?
Someone narrowly avoided being an Agatha Christie murder.
Ohhhh boy having a real gun with blanks pointed at an actor is so wildly against the rules in professional theatre let alone school shows this gives me anxiety
How did a bullet get into a school?
I would honestly pay so much to just watch Joey Richter and other starkids just improvising.
Choose our Destiny is an improv thing with Joey, Lauren, Brosenthal, Corey (Lubowich), and Ashley Skidmore (not a Starkid but still)
One night when my school did Guys and Dolls, our lead actress forgot the words to a song halfway through it. Like, all the remaining words.
She just improvised the rest, playing into the fact that her character was drunk, and made it through. It was absolutely insane.
Joey did something every night to get Jeff to laugh I fucking love it
i was tracy in a production of hairspray and started a quick change before it was time. i had to go onstage right away, and while i panicked in the back, my lovely cast mates managed to improvise the funniest scene. the actress who played mrs. turnblad ran around the stage yelling “where’s my daughter???” because it was right out of the jail scene. to this day i am so thankful that they were there to back me up.
Didn't think that was improv at all! Just thought Jeff was breaking!
Úna Parkinson no it was completely unscripted
@@charlotteemily22 yeah I realised that feom the video, thanks for making it!
The break is scripted, but he improvs what he says after
Hey, it's you! From the Molly Lewis comments!
@@MisterAppleEsq oh hey! I remember you!
The handpat gets me everytime
I literally did not know that this was improv. That is so amazing.
It sure is!
Jamie burying her face in Joey's back as she cracks up lmaooo
They really meant it when they said no two shows will be the same
Ngl I was expecting “and you have to be my slave for a whole day”
Pigfarts Pigfarts Pigfarts
That little pat-pat-pat she gives him sold it for me.
Jamie was trying so hard not to break.
Jamie just holding onto Joey like that the entire time. One day I hope to be that comfortable with someone.
“There’s lots to learn oh ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ha… OX LIKE ME” is my personal favorite
I can't tell whether Jamie was hugging him as a character or just genuinely trying to make him feel better. Probably because I've never seen the full show.
as a character bc the failed note is scripted
jamies pats on his chest really add to the moment
jaime's lucky she can just hide her face behind joey because how do you NOT laugh?
*I have no idea why RUclips brought me here because I know nothing about theatre but I am impressed*
I still think the best bit of improv was in a play I saw in high school. One of my friends was cast as the lead, and in one scene, he gives a pearl necklace to the love interest. It was closing night, and the necklace broke. He brushed it off very well, but the funny part was later. During an entirely different scene, something else broke. A broom I think. And Brian goes “first the pearls, now this?” And it was very funny.
How to Succeed in Business cracks me up every time!
Jeff actually never knows what he’s gonna do every show so it’s different every time.
Jamie was probably so glad her head was buried in Joey's shoulder because I'm sure she nearly died trying not to laugh.
That first one was done so well you couldn't even tell....Broadway could never.
Honestly, yeah. Reminds me of when she went “And you have to be my Slave for a day!”
And literally everyone lost it, but Joe played it off.
That bit wasn't entirely made up - Lauren said it one rehearsal so they decided to put it in
During Wizard of Oz, after the Cowardly Lion’s “my father took me up on a high mountain” speech (bear in mind he’s holding Toto up like Rafiki), all the other characters dropped to their knees and started singing “Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba!” From the Lion King. They re-enacted the beginning of circle of life!
Hahahaha
Joey is so adorable 😭❤️
I always see the clip of him breaking but never get to see the stellar improv after!
I love when performers go 'nope! nope.' as a response to fucking up or something. It's so funny and doesn't break flow and I've started using it myself. It's so helpful!
1 dislike. It’s all your fault Ja’far!
Thanks Herman!
you’re f*cking useless paul
AHOHOHOHOHOOO
HOHOHOHOHOOO
HA
OX LIKE ME
I'm so bad at improv but my greatest moment was when I was in middle school. We were doing Huckleberry Finn. And I got the lead, Huck.
An interesting fact is that Huckleberry hates wearing or being proper, so he got a song about his much he hates wearing shoes and how theyre a sin to the earth and whatnot.
During the first night, the song wouldn't come on for the tech team and I, in a state of mild panic, tried to make a joke and just went "shoes, right?"
I continued for a tad bit afterwards but I got the audience to laugh at the first line and that's all that matters
can we just talk about joey's "i didnt know there was a ridge there" during caulk your wagon though
I didn't even know that was improve I literally thought that part of the script, so props to Joey
I think it’s the pat that broke Joey and Joey breaking that broke Jeff
i saw this show in person i can't even remember how many times, but this part was always just so fun.
this is my new favorite video ever
My favourite is when during a show one of our actors collapsed side stage during a chaotic chase scene,so me and my friend had to improvise half this heavily choreographed section to make it look natural...
This will never not be funny , I love Joey so much
I have literally no context for this and I'm still cracking up-
Good for you!
The Trail To Oregon is just improve 😂 it’s amazing
Jeff trying not to lose it in the first one is my favorite
The Bandit King
(•_•>-
It’s so good that I actually thought it was suppose to happen.
I think one of the reasons Joey is cracking is because Jamie pets him with that grip around his chest xD
ok but the second one gives me major working boys vibes
Yessss fellow Ravenclaws unite!
#Ravenclaw4life
not on stage, but in the movie "Saving Private Ryan" Matt Damon's character rambles on about a childhood memory in a lot of detail to Tom Hank's character. You can actually see Tom Hanks looking off camera for a second to Stephen Spielberg as if to say "wtf is going on" because Matt improvised the whole thing.
Cool!
You can see jaime laughing behind Joey at 0:57
Oh yeah!
I assumed that one with the salesman guy was an intentional joke since the music seems to generally sound weird there to fit it
joey is a gift to humanity
All hail Joey Richter
how is joey so good at improv??
Spiderman turn off the dark, halfway through the preview that critics went to right at the confrontation between Spiderman and green goblin the stage manager said and hold, for technical difficulties. Reeve went over to drink goblins champagne. Patrick Page as a last second quick thinking said. “Y-you better watch yourself with that champagne boy, you’re gonna be flying soon and I hear people drop off.” Or something like that. The house came down. Best improv.
Cool!
This is beautiful
How are they so f*cking good?!
"Yeah well do lunch" pulls gun out
I wanna know if they went to lunch!
@@charlotteemily22 ME TOO!
And this is why Joey is the best
Yeppety Yep Yep
the first time i saw joey's singing one from trail to oregon i thought the voice crack was the goof, not the improv afterward. it took me watching like three different versions to get it 😂
other than Joey, I just love the sassy way Jeff stands.
You’re not wrong
Wagons Whisky and Women vs. Working Boyz
Isn't that the cop from Jessie who likes improv
Yup.
Woah I'm not here because it's a Starkid video, I'm here because I'm fascinated by improv as a former Thespian
Joey's literally a genius
This better be good
What about the “didnt know there was a ridge there”??
The RUclips algorithm has blessed this video.
IKR! I don't even know why
was joey messing up the song unscripted or just the part after?
Just the part after
No the mess up is scripted it’s on the soundtrack
All that time at the comedy club really helped him out