Here's how the Whirled News show works. When the audience enters the theater, there's a table set up with newspapers and scissors. They cut out articles and tac them onto a giant corkboard on stage.

During the show, we pull articles off the board at random, read the headline and first paragraph or two, then do scenes inspired by the article. Basically we deconstruct the article, taking different things from it to inspire, say, two to five scenes.

For instance, tonight an article about Microsoft's potential 45 billion dollar hostile takeover of Yahoo led to a scene where a man was angered that someone was offering him 45 billion dollars ("This is the most hostile thing anyone could possibly do... offer me 45 billion dollars! This is the worst day of my life!") and a scene depicting a literal search engine war ("Someone killed Jeeves!").

Last week, an article about President Bush's proposed stimulus package inspired a scene about a used car salesmen selling a Stimulus Package ("This one has all the bells and whistles, everything you need to not call the current state of affairs a recession."), a group of friends trying to figure out how to invest their money, and a father explaining to his son that there's no money to send him to college ("We sent your college fund to a rich family. We're hoping that education will eventually trickle down you.").

Don't worry, there were a lot of dirty jokes too, many of them said by me.