MORE TOPICS FOR IMPROVISATION

We have debated a huge number of topics over the course of the run, as shown here in no particular order. Some topics are very specific to time and place of performance; for example, garbage night in New York City at Soho Rep. Theater or Rob Ford at Canadian Stage in Toronto.

During performance, all improv topics are proposed completely without warning; neither of us tells the other what topics we plan to use until the topic is proposed during the show.

We include this list purely for reference and to inspire improvisation where it is called for in the script.

  1. John McCain
  2. Skype
  3. Super Bowl
  4. Fame
  5. Musicals
  6. Therapy
  7. Men
  8. Horn honking
  9. Saudi Arabia
  10. Taxation
  11. The guys on Car Talk (NPR show)
  12. Divorce
  13. Infidelity
  14. Polyamory
  15. Middle-school years
  16. Garbage night in New York City
  17. Amazon
  18. Mike Tyson
  19. Rob Ford
  20. Affirmative action
  21. Police
  22. Brooklyn
  23. Christmas
  24. Guilt
  25. Vegans
  26. The Senate
  27. Pharmaceuticals
  28. Priests
  29. Monks
  30. Sports talk radio
  31. Hippies
  32. Cell phones
  33. Abbreviated words in texts
  34. Torture
  35. Algerian special forces
  36. The Old Testament
  37. Canada Post
  38. Zoophiles
  39. Yoko Ono
  40. Fidel Castro
  41. Cruises
  42. All-inclusive vacations
  43. Haute couture
  44. Vanity Fair
  45. The fur trade
  46. The seal hunt
  47. Fish farms
  48. Freeways
  49. Beyoncé
  50. Jack Kerouac
  51. Henry Miller
  52. Margaret Thatcher
  53. Madonna
  54. Wikipedia
  55. Roundabouts
  56. Tea
  57. Starbucks
  58. Fish and chips
  59. Fondue
  60. The phrase “What does not kill us only makes us stronger”
  61. Mount Everest
  62. North Korea
  63. Rob Ford
  64. Talking to yourself
  65. Anonymous sources
  66. Marrying for money
  67. Ocular implants
  68. Overseas adoption
  69. Home-schooling
  70. White man’s guilt
  71. New York subways
  72. Loud processing of intimate relationships in public
  73. Marrying young
  74. Broken Windows policing
  75. NYC police union
  76. Marijuana legalization
  77. North Korea
  78. Universal Studios executives
  79. Airbnb
  80. Al Jazeera
  81. Beer bellies
  82. Drones
  83. The idea that we are post-race
  84. Afghanistan
  85. Day trading
  86. Diplomacy
  87. Hand sanitizer
  88. Call centres
  89. Legal abortion
  90. Priests
  91. Eastern European guest workers
  92. IRA
  93. National Leprechaun Museum
  94. Riverdance
  95. Guinness Day
  96. Ogling
  97. Monochrome Adidas track suits
  98. Irish theatre
  99. Thrift stores
  100. Ethnic restaurants where food is cooked by people of a different ethnicity
  101. State broadcasters
  102. Houseboats
  103. Legal prostitution
  104. Philanthropy
  105. CCTV
  106. Smiling at strangers
  107. Dutch fashion
  108. The Wire
  109. Icelandic bankers
  110. Travelling with small children
  111. Wearing hijab
  112. Cartoonists
  113. Adultery
  114. Silvio Berlusconi
  115. Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government
  116. Falkland Islands
  117. Quebec construction industry
  118. Sledge hockey
  119. Justin Trudeau
  120. Prenatal testing
  121. Tiger Woods
  122. Muslim Brotherhood
  123. China
  124. Overseas surrogacy
  125. Theo Van Gogh
  126. Vincent Van Gogh
  127. Steve Fonyo
  128. Machismo
  129. The Pope
  130. Reggae
  131. Ancient languages
  132. Corporal punishment
  133. Car horns
  134. The CN Tower
  135. Walmart
  136. Nudists
  137. Soul patches
  138. Dream analysis
  139. Cats
  140. Pigeons
  141. Michael Moore
  142. Boy Scouts
  143. Woody Allen
  144. Roman Polanski
  145. Silvio Berlusconi
  146. Bikram
  147. NFL
  148. Gandhi
  149. Walt Disney
  150. Vancouver Canucks
  151. Bertha, the world’s largest tunneling machine
  152. The whale hunt
  153. Sheep
  154. Snowmageddon
  155. Kate Moss
  156. Johnny Depp
  157. Hurling
  158. St. Patrick’s Day
  159. Irish pubs
  160. Climate change
  161. Religion
  162. Fiddle music
  163. Poutine
  164. Nuclear energy
  165. GMOs
  166. The 1980s
  167. Spell Check
  168. Dublin
  169. Good penmanship
  170. Men
  171. Optimism
  172. Julian Assange
  173. Uber
  174. Truth and reconciliation commissions
  175. Hugo Chávez
  176. U.S. Christian right
  177. Environmental activism
  178. Clint Eastwood
  179. NRA
  180. Air travel
  181. Politics
  182. Militantism
  183. Vigilantism
  184. Vegetarianism
  185. Tim Hortons
  186. Sigmund Freud
  187. Foodies
  188. Human traffickers
  189. Ben Johnson
  190. Waiting for Guffman
  191. Gun control
  192. The Industrial Revolution
  193. Germany
  194. The 1960s
  195. State funerals
  196. Black boxes
  197. Omar Khadr
  198. Smoking
  199. Lance Armstrong
  200. Bono
  201. Raymond Carver
  202. E-cigarettes
  203. Steve Nash
  204. Your twenties
  205. Talking about your feelings
  206. The Roma
  207. Poland
  208. Iran
  209. A.D.D.
  210. Ritalin
  211. Dungeons & Dragons
  212. Canadian health care
  213. Alberta
  214. Antidepressants
  215. Internet
  216. IKEA
  217. Lawyers
  218. Somali pirates
  219. Theresa Spence
  220. News website commenters
  221. Newspapers and print media
  222. Microsoft
  223. Viagra
  224. Catholicism
  225. Drinking daily
  226. Smoking cigarettes
  227. Chinese food
  228. Adolescence
  229. Middle age
  230. Meditation
  231. Golden years
  232. Life insurance
  233. Elementary school playgrounds
  234. Communication skills
  235. Pyramid schemes
  236. Slow Food Movement
  237. Henry Morgentaler
  238. Bureaucrats
  239. Individualism
  240. Nigerian email scams
  241. High school
  242. Retirement
  243. Foodies
  244. International Monetary Fund
  245. Mountain Equipment Co-op
  246. Experimental theatre
  247. Canada Revenue Agency
  248. Giving change to panhandlers
  249. Facebook
  250. Infomercials
  251. Canadian military
  252. Getting good grades
  253. Theatre school
  254. Quebec separatists
  255. Arranged marriages
  256. International Criminal Court
  257. Conrad Black
  258. Mother Teresa
  259. Family bed