'Trickle Down Effect' promises to deliver

There is only one student group that guarantees to "make you trickle down your pants." That group is called "Trickle Down Effect" and it will be performing tonight on the second floor of the Indiana Memorial Union in the State Room East.\nTrickle Down Effect is an improvisational comedy group that has students' best interests in mind as the semester comes to a close. Group member Adam Nahas said the group wants people to have a good time and forget about schoolwork for about an hour.\n"We don't want people to stress out over finals and haul off and murder someone," Nahas said. "We're trying to save people one life at a time."\nThe story of the group's formation began several years ago when an improvisational comedy group called "Pumpernickel" came to Bloomington. Pumpernickel trained a group of high-school students in improvisational comedy before the group split into three, one of which was called "Cletus and Virgil". Nahas is one of four former members of Cletus and Virgil who are now part of Trickle Down Effect.\nMuch of the group's comedy centers around politics, and tonight's performance will be no different, said group member Troy Jones.\n"Come and see us if you want enjoy some good political banter," Jones said.\nThere are several games the group plays to get the audience involved in its performance.\n"Props" is a game that the group usually does at the end of its shows.\n"We want people to bring the most ridiculous items they can think of for this game," Jones said.\nAnother, called "Debate." involves the audience. Members of the audience choose an adverb, verb and noun while two group members (debaters) leave the room to choose a topic to debate about. When the debaters come back into the room, two other group members mime the phrase the audience has chosen. The two debaters will then try to squeeze the phrase into their debate.\nThe group plans to incorporate live music before and after its shows in the future.\n"We're trying to have some bands perform to get a multitude of art," Nahas said, "instead of just comedy."\nThe group talked with the sketch comedy group Anything After Ten about starting a "comedy collective," Nahas said.\nThose who want to see "Trickle Down Effect" tonight should arrive early because the group is expecting a high turnout.\n"Fire code only allows 85 people in the State Room East," Jones said, "so people may be turned away."\nStudents should attend for three reasons, Nahas said.\n"A, it's free, B, it's only an hour and, as part of our comedy title, we guarantee to make you trickle down your pants," Nahas said.\nTrickle Down Effect will also be headlining a show at Rhino's All-Ages Music Club on Saturday.