Thank God You’re Here!

Thank God You’re Here is an Australian Television show in which people are thrown into unexpected situations and expected to think on the spot, ad-lib and respond to some of the whackiest situations they’ve ever experienced.

From the website:

Thank God You’re Here is based on a simple premise: get a group of well known performers and make each walk through a door into a scene without any idea of who they are or what they’re walking into. It might be an operating theatre and a simple greeting, “Thank God you’re here, Doctor. The patient’s ready.” It may be a Roman dungeon, a boardroom, a starship or a talk show. The only things they can depend on are their abilities to make everything up for the next five minutes and cover their tracks as they do it.

There’s no getting voted out and it showcases a performer’s versatility as well as their abilities to lie, deceive and… well… basically think on the spot.

This event might take a while to organise…

Thanks to the Youth crew at Queanbeyan Uniting Church Youth for this idea and downloads.

Equipment:

• Scripts for each situation (download below)
• Actors prepared to be in each act
• 3 unsuspecting people to be thrown into the situation
• Set equipment
• Lighting
• Sound system
• Video to tape the event
• A judge
• A compare
• An audience

Schedule:

• 00:00 - Introductions
• 00:10 - Act One
• 00:25 - Interval / Judge talking, Jokes…
• 00:35 - Act Two
• 00:50 - Interval / Judge talking, Jokes…
• 01:00 - Act Three
• 01:15 - Interval, have supper
• 01:30 - Act Four (combined act)
• 01:45 - Final Judgments
• 01:50 - Devotion

Devotion

Downloads:

• thank-god-youre-here-script-1-actor.doc
• thank-god-youre-here-script-2-artist.doc
• thank-god-youre-here-script-3-interview.doc
• thank-god-youre-here-script-3-combined-ministers
• The TGYH dvd has a number of skits on it that people can get ideas from