Help with an improv activity

[vslg1]

There is an activity that involves usually two people.

One person stands behind the other and uses his/her hands as the hands of the person in front...for example...the person in front has their hands either in their shirt or behind them...the other person is directly in back and puts their arms in place of the front person...If the skit involves the front person scratching his/her forehead...the back person is actually scratching the front's forehead...

It can be incredibly funny...but I'm wanting to know if there's a name for this type of improv and if anyone knows where I might find sample skits or dialogue?

[saphireSue]

check out "Whose Line is it anyway" Drew Carey, they do this often on that show

[Sir Toony Van Dukes]

They can be pretty funny. I have heard it called mixed body acting, but after doing a google search, that only came up with a few matches. There is also a version where it is done as a midget with the first person using their hands to control the feet. There is an example on youtube (YouTube - Funny Midget Skills)

[vslg1]

Several games take the style of "traditional" scenes, but have a twist to make the game less-predictable. One of these games is Helping Hands. In this game, two performers act out a scene provided by the host; however, one of the performers cannot use their own hands, so a third performer stands behind the "handless" performer to provide their own hands. In later episodes, this game usually involved food (such as "making an ice cream sundae") so that the "hands" performer could force the "body" performer to eat nasty concoctions against his will (one particularly memorable scene involved Colin forcing Ryan to eat dirt out of a potted plant). Ryan would usually get his own back by spitting the concoction back out into Colin's hands, during the game or after the game ended.

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