Jungle Cruise skippers head for land

[kristibaer]

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This is a great article about our JC Skippers after hours!

Jungle Cruise skippers head for land

Past and present Disney cast members gather in Fullerton to joke in a more blue fashion.

By JOSHUA SUDOCK
The Orange County Register


FULLERTON Famous folks, over the years, have been behind the controls of the Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland.
Like Richard Nixon's press secretary, Ronald Ziegler, and Disney/Pixar's creator of the Toy Story movie franchise, John Lasseter.
Both cut their public-speaking teeth working as wise-cracking tour guides, or "skippers," on Disneyland's comedy-driven Jungle Cruise ride, on which park-goers experience African waters.
On Sunday, skippers past and present, took their Disney-honed improvisation skills beyond the walls of Walt Disney's Anaheim theme park to the Maverick Theater in Fullerton. Every other month, since May 2006, skippers have gathered for "Skipper Stand Up," a night of live, standup comedy.
David Marley, the "Skipper Stand Up" organizer and a former skipper himself, said he was bitten by the comedy bug while at Disneyland. After leaving to pursue a career as a history professor at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa in 2004, he began dabbling in semi-professional standup on the side.
Marley wasn't exactly packing em' in at the Maverick. He needed a gimmick. So he organized what he thought would be a one-time show featuring a line-up of Jungle Cruise skippers.
Immediately successful, "Skipper Stand Up" was born.
The show has fast become standing-room-only affairs – Sunday was no exception: The 60-seat theater was packed.
The delivery style was noticeably spattered with Disney showmanship: You could tell this troop honed its skills on the back waterways of Adventureland.
But make no mistake – this is not a Disney-approved affair. Be ready to hear things typically reserved for late-night cable TV.
This show is not about rehashing your favorite Jungle Cruise jokes, or getting an insider's look at skipper culture, if there is such a thing.
This show is about young comics carving out a non-Disney niche for themselves.
The standup fodder ranges from politics and religion to history and human sexuality. Skipper Stand Up is more HBO than Disney Channel.

[techskip]

so that's where Josh ended up (he and Doc Marley are both old Skips)... I was wondering what happened to him! Skipper Standup has been a tradition for a while now, I did the opening one. Thanks for the article, I was worried it was a story about an evac!

[Craigroy8287]

I read this as well on Mickeynews and thought it sounded like fun.

[Haunted]

It does sound like fun. Maybe I will head up there for the next one - November 9th.

Here is more info.

Skipper Stand Up Show-

[Tinkmomma]

Skipper standup is a lot of fun to watch!

[techskip]

To think a lot of material came from morning conversations when all of us were standing around the Shipping Office joking around!

[SeaWolf38]

You did the FIRST ONE skip?? Awesome! What kinda material did you use? Like, sticking kinda close to jokes from JC, or straying away from it?

[techskip]

Originally Posted by SeaWolf38

You did the FIRST ONE skip?? Awesome! What kinda material did you use? Like, sticking kinda close to jokes from JC, or straying away from it?

mainly funny experiences and situations... I'm told it was ok but I barely remember it.

[SeaWolf38]

Originally Posted by techskip

mainly funny experiences and situations... I'm told it was ok but I barely remember it.

Lol, cool. No video!?

[Tinkmomma]

SeaWolf, He was just awesome as usual...and very handsome too!
I don't think there was a video...if there was we don't have one.

[haunted_hottie]

I would love to check this out... there is so much undiscovered talent around the park and it seems they all work at JC!