Fluency with Gibberish and Verbal Agility

The Spolin Players (www.spolinplayers.com) have been doing Gib-Interp as a show game for the past 27 years. Here’s an example of great gibberish and great translation, by David McCharen and Danny Mann.

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As gibberish becomes ‘fluent’ much more can be expressed. The audience responds better to what they understood the gibberer to mean than if the interpreter made up a funny line based on misunderstanding. Gibberish is subtext and direct communication.

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