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<\/p>\nIf you want to see comedy in Austin, you have two main options.<\/p>\n
You can head down to Sixth Street where you\u2019ll find a lot of standup shows. Setup. Punchline. One performer at a time.<\/p>\n
Or you can go to an improv club like Fallout Theater, where comedy is collaborative, more theatrical and experimental.<\/p>\n
Every month, Fallout hosts \u201cDid I Win?,\u201d a show where the truth is stranger than fiction.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a game show you would never want to get pulled onto,\u201d co-host and creator Trenton Bradley said.<\/p>\n
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Isak Kotecki for KUT News<\/p>\n
Trenton Bradley hosts “Did I Win?,” a game show that’s part comedy, part immersive theater. He and co-creator, Austin Apostle, try out new games or segments during every show.<\/p>\n
On \u201cDid I Win?,\u201d audience members get called up to play games that make no sense.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe game can be anything from a \u2018Deal or No Deal\u2019 kind of parody,\u201d Bradley said, \u201cor something as wacky as \u2018Give Somebody a Haircut.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Bradley and Austin Apostle have hosted \u201cDid I Win?\u201d for two years. They try out new games or segments at every show.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot all of our bits go well,\u201d Bradley said. \u201cWe did this show last year where we couldn’t even watch it because it went so badly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once they had somebody come on stage and reach into a box. They were told to identify an item without looking at it. In the first round, the item was a wig. Round two, it was a fake spider.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe third round was a mousetrap,\u201d Bradley said.<\/p>\n
When it snapped shut on the contestant\u2019s hand, everyone in the theater was stunned except for Bradley and Apostle. The contestant was not a paying audience member. He was a plant.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew that a mousetrap was going to close on his hand,\u201d Bradley said, \u201cbut he played it off so well that people came up to us and were like, \u2018That is not funny.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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Isak Kotecki for KUT News<\/p>\n
Austin Apostle works the soundboard during the show last month. He created “Did I Win?” with Bradley two years ago. <\/p>\n
Every month, Bradley and Apostle recruit local standup comics to be random people in the crowd. Their segments go sideways.<\/p>\n
None of this is ever explained to the audience.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey know it\u2019s a game show, but they don\u2019t know what that game show entails,\u201d Bradley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid I Win?\u201d blurs reality in a way that makes it impossible for the audience to make sense of what they\u2019re looking at at any given moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don’t know what’s going to happen. You can’t expect anything,\u201d attendee Bo Banducci said before a recent show. \u201cI\u2019m excited about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Comedian Austen Silver was lingering in the lobby. He was one of the night\u2019s plants.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey’re going to get me to name celebrity feet,\u201d he said, \u201cbut I only know the women’s feet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silver wasn\u2019t wearing a costume and didn\u2019t change his voice for the role \u2013 so a good portion of the audience might leave thinking he\u2019s a creep.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve been humiliated so much just as a regular comic that it’s very hard to insult me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Moments later, the audience filed into the theater and the show started. Bradley and Apostle tossed jello shots into the crowd.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve been sober for six years,\u201d Bradley said onstage. \u201cShould I relapse tonight?\u201d<\/p>\n
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Isak Kotecki for KUT News<\/p>\n
An audience member must guess the name of the person on screen behind him by asking the audience yes or no questions. <\/p>\n
The crowd roared and chaos commenced. The first game of the evening was \u201cGuess Who? Epstein Files Edition.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chris, a real audience member, was brought onstage as the first contestant. He had to identify a person on screen behind him by asking the audience yes or no questions.<\/p>\n
For the next game, Bradley called up comedian Demi Chang. She had to fight a trash can.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never been in a fight,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Bradley pulled out a midsized plastic can and placed it on the floor.<\/p>\n
\u201cFight! Fight! fight!\u201d everybody cheered.<\/p>\n
Without hesitating, Chang kicked the can off the stage. She threw up her arms in victory and the crowd erupted. Then came round two.<\/p>\n
\u201cBring it on!\u201d Chang shouted.<\/p>\n
The bell rang and a man wearing a trash can with arm and leg holes cut out stormed into the theater. He stomped onstage and cornered Chang.<\/p>\n
Bradley didn\u2019t care; he shoved her back into the middle of the stage.<\/p>\n
\u201cFight the trash can!\u201d he scolded. \u201cYou\u2019re losing the game!\u201d<\/p>\n
Finally, Chang forfeited and headed back to her seat. The crowd didn\u2019t seem to notice that any of this was staged. At Bradley\u2019s instruction, the entire room booed Chang.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe trash can wins!\u201d he yelled. \u201cThe trash can wins!\u201d<\/p>\n
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Isak Kotecki for KUT News<\/p>\n
Comedian Demi Chang cowers onstage as Bradley demands she fight a trash can.<\/p>\n
The next person called on stage was Alyssa, whose challenge was to identify celebrities by photos of their feet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know any celebrities so this is going to be really hard,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Alyssa wasn\u2019t lying. She couldn\u2019t identify any celebrity feet \u2013 and neither could anybody else in the crowd. They all struggled to name LeBron James, Leonardo DiCaprio and Yoda.<\/p>\n
Of course, the exception was Austen Silver, who identified the feet of every woman shown. He proudly shouted the names of Rita Ora, Margot Robbie, Kim Kardashian and Beyonc\u00e9 immediately after their photos appeared on screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Silver owned his character as a female foot expert. The audience was equal parts impressed and horrified.<\/p>\n
Eventually, though, he got them on his side.<\/p>\n
\u201cFeet! Feet! Feet!\u201d they start chanting.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid I Win?\u201d is part comedy, part immersive theater. The humor comes from confusion, awkward moments and segments that unravel. It\u2019s also hosted by a maniac.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re in on the joke, it\u2019s performance art. If you\u2019re not, it\u2019s just a train wreck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you want to see comedy in Austin, you have two main options. You can head down to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,4037,118743,118744,26939,216],"class_list":["post-332212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-comedy","tag-did-i-win","tag-fallout-theater","tag-improv","tag-tx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}