Meet the Playerz: Mary Carpenter

Mary Carpenter has been with Comedysportz Philly from nearly the beginning and continues make audiences laugh over and over again. With the bearing of great female comedians like Carol Burnette, Mary can switch easily between playing your woman next door, or the eccentric crazy character. She also runs the ComedySportz Education department, helping to train the public in how to do improv and bring the funny.

1.  Your name and nickname: Mary “I don’t know my nickname” Carpenter

2. Your player: #00

3. Year you joined CSz: 1992

4.  High School attended: Radnor High School

5.  College (and grad school) attended: Northwestern University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts

6.  Favorite CSz game: Seven thingz (and old version of five things) and Quick Change

7.  Favorite memory involving a fan: When a fan’s cell phone rang during a show and Ref Tom McManus took the call and got a suggestion from the person on the other end of the phone.

8.  Memorable show moment: This Doesn’t involve me, but I remember one time a team giving clues for five thingz back in the days when we performed at the Bourse days. One of the elements to guess was the Kennedy assassination. The team reenacted it in hilarious detail including Jackie climbing over the back of the car.  The guesser, Nicole Borrelli (CSZ alum),  jumped up and down because she knew what it was.  She guessed the location as a “Duck-shooting gallery.”

Another was at a CSz anniversary show when Jim (my husband) strutted out to promote t-shirts to the tune of “I’m too sexy for my shirt,” wearing a diaper and licking a huge lollipop.  He then stuck the lollipop to his belly.

9.  Interesting fact (or 2) about yourself: I know too much about Star Wars

10.  Voted Most Likely To: Do the right thing.