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Think about: You’ve pumped your self up for a bar trivia night time by dancing within the mirror, donning your slickest new outfit, and downing a few pictures. However while you arrive, you uncover that enjoyable is not on the menu. As an alternative, hyperaggressive rivals giggle in your face for getting a query fallacious whereas a listless host retains his nostril buried in notecards, studying off query after boring query.
It’s this unhappy actuality that’s motivated comic Dan Davies and emcee Michael Stauffer to create Query Get together?! which returns to the Freehold Miami on Wednesday, March 31. (Pre-emptory Notice: staff desk reservations are extremely really useful.) The pair assures contributors this present is equal components comedy, trivia, and good instances.
“We don’t like calling it a trivia night time. We’ve attended sufficient of these trivia nights the place it’s some man with a calf tattoo studying from be aware playing cards. We’ve got tattoos on our calves, however now we have tattoos on our higher thighs, too,” Davies says. “We thought: Let’s have a comedy-meets-quiz expertise the place it’s very interactive. You’re not simply sitting there being barked at. You’re going to listen to songs you used to listen to at the back of your mother’s Dodge Caravan. We’ve got a limbo contest as a tiebreaker. We act out film scenes. We play ‘Drake or Pretend,’ a sport the place we learn you Drake’s most ridiculous strains, after which we learn strains we’ve give you. You pick the fakes.”
In distinction to the disapproving glances and pronunciation corrections delivered by the late Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, Stauffer says the method he and Davies take to internet hosting Query Get together?! is low-pressure and inclusive.
In reality, you could win factors in your lack of awareness in the case of naming all the Kardashians.
“So typically, a trivia night time feels just like the particular person studying the questions is saying, ‘It’s best to know this.’ However these things is trivial for a motive. We’ve got these questions the place we make individuals really feel like that is one thing they don’t have to know,” Stauffer says.
Stauffer additionally serves because the emcee of Not Your Commonplace Bingo on the Commonplace Resort in New York’s East Village, whereas Davies has carried out stand-up and improvisational comedy with the Upright Residents Brigade and internationally for a decade. The pair keep an in depth friendship, and Query Get together?! affords them the chance to show hilarious moments from their frequent hangouts and chats into jokes that precede every trivia query. Davies stated the present gives a topical levity at a time when it’s wanted most.
“I’m joyful to carry out and supply a distraction in a time once I assume we’re starved for it,” Davies says. “If it comes on the heels of a query about which movie star has probably the most Instagram followers, then so be it. Then I get to play a TLC track proper after, so it’s a win-win for me.”
The pair has hosted Query Get together?! for 4 years, with weekly residencies in Williamsburg, Manhattan, and Montauk. Davies and Stauffer additionally entertained the company crowd with their model of comedy, nostalgia, and trivia at Bumble-sponsored hangouts and Capital One and J.P. Morgan team-building nights. Irrespective of if their viewers members are two-time Jeopardy! winners or trivia-night first timers, Davies and Stauffer really feel assured audiences of Query Get together?! will finish the night time feeling a little bit lighter, if no more educated about some severely trivial data.
“We love to listen to teams speaking about their new staff names for the subsequent Query Get together?! or how they’re going to vary up their method for subsequent time,” Stauffer says. “We would like audiences dancing out of the room with a pep of their step.”
Provides Davies: “We would like individuals to assume, I had by no means been to an occasion like that, and I didn’t assume I wanted to listen to that Practice throwback track, however I’m glad I did.”
Query Get together?! 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 31, and each final Wednesday of the month, at Freehold Miami, 2219 NW Second Ave., Miami; 305-280-0330; freeholdmiami.com. Admissions if free with RSVP by way of freeholdmiami.com.
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