If you were to make a fully grown man battle a yellow balloon, who do you think would win?
Rob Spence treats his audience to this hilarious spectacle as he battled onstage against this measly yellow balloon. Rob Spence, a multi-lingual performer, comedian, writer, actor, and director couldn’t even bring his cumulative experience together to put a balloon in its place.
“Seeming boneless body and a rubber face” might be something you wouldn’t want to be described as, but Rob Spence made a craft out his talent.
At a very young age, he knew comedy is something he’d like to do, even going as far as saying in his bio: “When I grow up, I want to be a clown – if I can graduate from kindergarten!”
He has performed in various places and various stages, from the streets of the world to the Criterion Theatre in London. He also performed in one of the largest comedy shows “Just For Laughs” in Montreal.
Since then, he has participated in various shows and showed the world his talent for comedy only through the use of his “boneless body” and a “rubber face.”
With Edvard Grieg’s “In The Hall of the Mountain King”, Spence starts the performance by showing everyone how firmly planted the balloon is.
And we’re talking about your dollar-store balloons that you see at parties.
However, Spence’s yellow balloon is different. It seemed heavier, firmer, a bit more stubborn, and it probably knows that Spence was about to mess its groove.
While we’re so used to seeing balloon floating aimlessly during children’s parties, this yellow balloon drags Spence towards the edge of the stage.
Spence checks what his balloon is made of and realizes that it’s a lot more challenging than he thought. It was strangely hefty, unlike what we’ve seen before.
He pushes it but somehow, he only succeeded in trying. Next, channeling all his might, he fails to lift a balloon that we all know should float.
He even pushed his hips into the balloon but you’d just have to see the video yourself to know what happened. That entire part might need parental discretion and a lot of explaining to the kids and you might not have the time for that.
Through the course of his show, Spence struggled to lift the balloon, push it out of the way, or stop it from going the other direction.
He unscrewed the balloon from its invisible pedestal, struggled in pushing it up an imaginary slope, and helplessly resisted when it pushed him back to the other side of the stage.
It might be magic for some, but it’s definitely Spence’s talent and body language that pushed this show, or this balloon, off the tracks.
We’ve always thought that miming is about invisible boxes and white make-up, but Spence showed that it’s about thinking outside that invisible box.
It was an ordinary yellow dollar-store balloon. But through his hilarious showmanship and perfect miming, he told a story of how a man messed up his night fighting a balloon.
You can watch this entertaining and jaw-dropping performance in the video below and see for yourself if Spence successfully dealt with the yellow menace.
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