All this month, we are interviewing the improv team Canny Funny. A troupe that is located in Northampton who have monthly shows as well as some huge ones coming up in the next month. They have their Halloween show on the 27th October and then have two shows at the same location, Pomfret Arms in Northampton on the 24th November and 15th December. All this month we are going behind the scenes of the team to find out all about them. In the last week of our interview with Canny Funny we are going to focus on a traditional quick fire round!

Favourite Television show

Toni: Taskmaster

Autumn: Doctor who

David P: Thunderbirds

Jen: Line of Duty

Favourite film?

Toni: Monsters Inc (sorry, just a kid at heart)

Autumn: Withnail and I or Clue

David P: Kiss Me Kate

Craig: Empire of the Sun

Jen: Spirited Away

Favourite quote from a film or TV show?

Autumn: God Damn these electric sex pants – IT crowd

David P: “We’re 106 miles to Chicago. We’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses…. Hit it.”

Favourite lyric from a song

Toni: The man with the child in his eyes

Autumn: “I’ve seen blue skies through the tears”‘ from ‘i’m coming from’ from Rocky horror

David P: “If she says your behavior is heinous Kick her right in the Coriolanus” (Brush Up Your Shakespeare)

Craig: She appears composed so she is, I suppose (Waltz#2 – Elliott Smith)

Jen: So drunk in the August sun, And you’re the kind of girl I like, Because you’re empty, and I’m empty, And you can never quarantine the past, Gold Soundz Pavement

If you had a tattoo to represent improv what would it be and why?

Toni: I wouldn’t ever have a tattoo

Autumn: Is there a symbol for pure chaos? Because that works

David P: Two comedy masks (as opposed to the usual tragedy and comedy pair)

Jen: Something that represents joy , but in an abstract manner so probably lots of rainbow swirls

Neesha: A Tin Can with a cat on it to represent Canny Funny, it’s already a great Logo.

Cat or dog person?

Toni: both

Autumn: Cat

David P: Cat

Neesha: both

Marmite – love or hate?

Toni: love

David P: hate

Craig: hate

Dream location to perform?

Toni The Edinburgh Fringe

Autumn Edinburgh

David P Las Vegas, but really the venues are too big for something relatively intimate as improv

Craig On the summit of Ben A’an

Favourite super hero?

Toni Superted

Autumn Does Mystique count? I don’t care, Mystique

David P The Flash

Craig SuperDave

Jen Tank Girl

Favourite Book?

Toni: Pride and Prejudice

Autumn: The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy

David P:“Grey Lensman” by E E Smith. some of the raw material that Star Trek, Star Wars and other things came from.

Craig: The Complete McAuslan, George McDonald Fraser

Jen: The Man who mistook his wife for a hat – Oliver Sacks

Who would play you in a film about your life?

Toni: Me!

Autumn: Richard Burton. It would be terrible casting but it would be hilarious

David P: Jack Dee

Craig: John Hannah

Jen: Mason Alexander Park if they can pull off a geordie accent of course