A local improv comedy group will take over the University Board’s “LOL Comedy Café on Thursday.

Hello Dali, an Eastern improv comedy group, will be performing at 7 p.m. Thursday in the 7th Street Underground of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

Mike Bennett, a member of Dali, said they have not picked what they will be doing for the comedy show, but they will be playing a couple of games.

Bennett, a senior communication studies major, said Dali has a book of games that has been built over the last few years.

“There is never really any set thing that we do,” Bennett said. “We kind of just work out our game list and what will work or what doesn’t, and we build in extra games if we are running too fast or slow. Actually, building the list itself is a bit of improv.”

He said the group will usually meet the night before to pick what games they are interested in playing.

Bennett said some of the games include World’s Worst, Sexy Time and Freeze.

He said World’s Worst is a game in which Dali members get a noun or occupation and they make jokes about it.

Sexy Time is a game where the audience supplies an item, and the Dali members say “Sex with me is like a (noun) because of (something funny related to said object).”

Freeze is a game where a scene is started and another member will yell “Freeze!” and take another member’s place and change the scene.

Bennett said their show is not a stand-up comedy show.

“People help us shape the games,” Bennett said. “We ask the audience for things to use.”

Bennett said the audience members supply the nouns for the games, and it makes the experience more fun.

“You actually become part of the show,” Bennett said. “It’s not like a movie or something where it is already written and you just watch the storyline or stand up where they already have their show worked out and then maybe they’ll talk about something you guys want to talk about.”

Bennett said he likes being a part of Dali because it acts as a stress reliever for him.

“All the stress from doing work and trying to get stuff done—I know that there is that one day where I can blow off steam and my creativeness,” Bennett said. “I walk on stage, everything from the last two weeks goes, I leave it behind, and when I get off stage, I don’t pick it back up.”

Bennett said the shows are just fun.

“I get to act a fool, and no one can judge me because it is what I’m suppose to be,” Bennett said. “I’m supposed to act that way.”

Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or slmcdaniel@eiu.edu.