{"id":726,"date":"2025-06-10T03:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T03:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/?p=726"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:42:35","slug":"savannahs-for-morons-trolly-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/savannahs-for-morons-trolly-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Savannah For Morons: The Comedy Trolley Tour That Will Have You in Stitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.postcontent p {line-height: 150% !important;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"postcontent\">\n<p>It&#8217;s 2:00 PM and the sun is bleaching Savannah&#8217;s cobblestones. A candy apple red and state green trolleybus rattles past the Colonial Park Cemetery. Inside, two \u2018morons&#8217; in matching blue and green printed overalls and headbands lean into their microphones, their grins wide enough to bridge the Savannah River, start to talk to a mix of bewildered tourists and grinning locals.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t just a historic tour it&#8217;s <strong>Savannah For Morons<\/strong>: an unscripted, feather chasing, Julia Roberts impersonating tour through the city&#8217;s past in which one thing is guaranteed you&#8217;ll be doubling down laughing at the end. (Beware, it PG 13+)<\/p>\n<p>We sat down with John Danniii, one of the infamous Moron Twins who lead this trolley tour to and from the Comedy Town to have a heart to heart and see what it&#8217;s like to be on the receiving end of a thunderous applause to every single silly joke one makes.<\/p>\n<p>Danniii Moron, it&#8217;s *D-A-N-N-I-I-I* MORON. M-O-R-O-N as he patiently spells it out and adjusts his hat. &#8220;<em>It&#8217;s great, man, it is<\/em>,&#8221; he says of life as a professional &#8220;moron.&#8221; His tone suggested that he didn&#8217;t just like it, he absolutely loved it. &#8220;<em>A great opportunity to enjoy our city, to share kind of a fun look&#8230; poke fun at our history a bit but also share the beauty and majestic stuff that makes Savannah Savannah<\/em>,&#8221; he says, with a wave of energy that felt contagious at that moment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_width1\">\n<div class=\"fl-lt ad_width2\">\n<p>Perhaps, this isn&#8217;t just comedy for him. &#8220;<em>It&#8217;s a lot of fun, high energy silly kinda aesthetic,<\/em>&#8221; he grins. On being asked if they&#8217;ve ever had any surprising, unexpected reactions from their guests on their performance, Dannie shook his head in denial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Guests don&#8217;t really know what to expect. We set the standard: it&#8217;s going to be silly, it&#8217;s going to be obnoxious, it&#8217;s going to be a little rowdy, expect the unexpected a little bit, to definitely expect the high energy and yesss, cheekiness no pun intended.<\/em>&#8221; So the guests inside typically react like they understand what&#8217;s expected of this Moron tour.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-rt ad_width2\">\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250609-182450.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%\"><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The biggest reactions we get are from folks outside the trolley,<\/em>&#8221; says Dannie, &#8220;<em>when we pretend to be Julia Roberts running through Bull Street or down Bull Street,<\/em>&#8221; in <strong><em>Something to Talk About<\/em><\/strong>. Pedestrians freeze. &#8220;<em>There&#8217;s always astonishment at that<\/em>,&#8221; he laughs. And even their guests find it funny to watch those reactions from the locals outside the bus. &#8220;<em>Our guests are in on the joke so they know, they kind of know what&#8217;s happening<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the crown jewel? The <strong>Forrest Gump<\/strong> <em>feather chase<\/em>. At Independent Presbyterian Church (where the film&#8217;s opening scene was shot), Dannii waves a feather tethered to a stick, sprints around Johnson Square. &#8220;<em>Where&#8217;s that bench<\/em>?!&#8221; he yelps, while tourists snap photos and the locals shake their heads. It feels absurdly silly, but hell, it&#8217;s Savannah.<\/p>\n<p>So how does one earn the title &#8220;<strong>moron<\/strong>&#8220;? &#8220;<em>We ship you off to a military black site<\/em>,&#8221; Dannie says. &#8220;<em>Six months of training: 60% physical, 20% mental and the rest of it emotional. And again, I&#8217;m a moron and I don&#8217;t know what those percentages are. But that&#8217;s kind of what happens<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_width1\">\n<div class=\"fl-lt ad_width2\">\n<p>The truth is that they are a part of a large improv organization called <strong>Front Porch Improv<\/strong>. &#8220;<em>The two founders who built this \u2018organization&#8217; really worked their tails off and built it up to something where they were able to begin to hire other local artists to come in and..and perform<\/em>,&#8221; he explains. &#8220;<em>If you really want to be a moron, get to know the folks at Front Porch, take some of those improv classes and find your way to an audition<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-rt ad_width2\">\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250609-182402.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%\"><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>Ghost tours and scripted history lectures are the new norm so <em>Savannah For Morons<\/em> feels like a breath of humid, unfiltered air. The tour ends where it began, Martin Luther King Jr Blvd: with sweaty foreheads, sore cheeks from smiling and a crowd of newly minted &#8220;morons&#8221; getting down from the trolleybus<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"width:100%;\" href=\"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Subscribe.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/September_2025_Issue-1.webp\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:100%;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"authorbio\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_width1\" style=\"padding:2%;box-shadow: 0 4px 8px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2), 0 6px 20px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.19);\">\n<h3>About The Author<\/h3>\n<div class=\"fl-lt ad_width6a\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Brett.png\" alt=\"Brett\" style=\"width:100%;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0;\">Brett Bigelow<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-rt ad_width6b\">\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">\n        <!--Bio Text will Go Here-->\n      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 2:00 PM and the sun is bleaching Savannah&#8217;s cobblestones. 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Inside, two \u2018morons&#8217; in matching blue and green printed overalls and headbands lean into their microphones, their grins wide enough to bridge the Savannah River, start to talk to a mix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[264,263,262,265,313,92,312,77,311],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-georgia","tag-savannah-ga","tag-savannah-tourism","tag-visit-savannah","tag-comedy-trolley-tour","tag-savannah","tag-savannah-for-morons","tag-savannah-georgia","tag-savannahs-for-morons-trolly-tour"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}