Dan Brooks
353-0839
2/6/98
"Was You Were And Will You Won’t?"
(
Lights down. Lights up on Dan, sitting in chair reading book. Before the spoken part of the piece, Dan will do a series of wordless movements. In order, they are: The Fishhook Thing, the Bird Thing, and the Marionette Thing. They are not nearly as good as anything a real silent comic would create. That’s the point. It’s convenient when your points require that you are not as good at things as other people.)Question:
Who is
(was)
Who is (was)
the greatest silent comic
ever?
Who is (was)
the greatest silent comic
ever?
And I say
Buster.
Buster Keaton is (was)
the greatest silent comic
ever.
Buster was
indomtable
Buster was
inimitable
Buster was not
inevitable.
He did not have to
be.
He does not have to
be.
So what I want to ask him is
"Buster,
Is you is
Or is you ain’t?"
And tomorrow,
when you wake
up,
I suggest you look in your mirror
And ask yourself
Is you is
Or is you ain’t.
(Snap fingers. Immediate blackout.)
"Was You Were And Will You Won't?" IS COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL AND MAY NOT BE DOWNLOADED, TRANSMITTED, PRINTED OR PERFORMED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR
"Was You Were And Will You Won't?" debuted February 6, 1998.
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