I’m involved in a live, improv comedy soap opera. (brain child of my brilliant sister, who the NYC Dopers may get to meet.) I need two characters, one good and one evil. Help. Funny is good, ironic is great, pop culture referances are fantastic. (one actor’s evil character is a rip off of Deter from Sprockets.) So far, the other female actors have snapped up such soap opera fare as the Supermodel, the Nurse, and the Fashion Magazine Editor. Be creative.
I’ve always been partial to the Beautiful Female Scientist type. Think Thomas Dolby’s “She Blinded Me With Science.” Hair up in a bun, big glasses, lab coat, etc. Then you take off your glasses, sweep your hair down, and Oh My God, She’s Actually Beautiful!!!
Excellent. I can do that. Hmmm…should the scientist be a good character or evil? Keep the ideas coming, people!
How about a coked-up, oversexed, overaged former bond girl like Joanne Lumley’s character on Absolutely Fabulous?
I think the Scientist should be similar to Erica Kane in All My Children.
Or you could be the Dumb Blonde Office Assistant who is evil and secretly sabotages everything.
Does that help??
How about the slightly goofy, psychic FBI agent who loves cherry pie, a la Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) in Twin Peaks?
One of my favourite scenes is when he’s at a briefing of local police officers, and pulls down a map of Tibet.
Evil is always much more fun to play, but rather than “evil” how about purely amoral?
I kind of like a bumbling, slightly un-coordinated nice guy with a sardonic wit who is always meaning to do well but still manages to accidentally run through a fence or break a chair every now and then.
Wait a minute. I think I know someone just like that.
We went right out there and refused to do accoustical versions of the electrical songs that we had refused to record in the first place.
One of the male actors already has his good character as a cop. What would be the opposite of a scientist? (I think I’ll make the scientist be evil, which means I need a “good” character.)
How about the Mysterious Foreign Lady? You could wear cloaks and sunglasses and make up an accent. Clearly this must be evil.
“It says, I choo-choo-choose you. And it’s got a picture of a train.”
– Ralph Wiggum
The prostitute with a heart of gold. And the genitals of steel.
Or howabout, The Person Who Everyone Thought Was Dead, But Was Actually In A Coma On A Faraway Island And Now Can’t Recall Any of Her Former Life?
I gotta quit with the All My Children.
How about the ingenue country singer? That would make a great “good character” - sweet, innocent, ditzy, no taste 
Give you lot’s of ways to get into trouble!
I do not merely dance. I bewitch. I seduce. I enchant and I bewilder. Throw money.
(Gee, Wally must have seen me dance!)
I think my sister has the virgin/ingenue character claimed. And one of the guys has the singer hook. And as I mentioned before, one of the OTHER guys is going to be the evil Deter-esque character from SNL’s Sprockets.
Biggirl: applause. If I can muster up the balls to do that. How about the FORMER-prostitute (that way my mom won’t have to watch me have stage-sex…) with the heart of gold and genitals of steel (BRILLIANCE!), but now she’s a…what? Let’s make it outrageous, it IS a soap opera. A brain surgeon? A lawyer? A politian?
I say she should now be the poet laureate. If anyone is able to come up with some great rhymes for Nantucket, it would be a hooker with a heart of gold.
I like it. A writer. Every soap opera has your token novelist. But what about a poet? However, that would require me to write lymericks, something I am horrible at. Feh.
Just happened upon this and was wondering how it went Swiddles. My apologies if you’ve posted this elsewhere.