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feedmyleg posted:I would imagine sitting all day in cramped rooms with hilarious people rubs off on you after a couple years. Why doesn't listening to hundreds of hours of podcasts have the same effect
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The surname of all the characters in Louis CK's new show is Wittel.
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Zsinjeh posted:comedy osmosis. A pupal stage if you will before blooming into a beautiful improvising butterfly Is that like a crystalis?
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Feb 4, 2016 22:12
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Gabrus finding out that his random actor pal is Dario f'n Cueto on his latest podcast blew my mind.
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Illinois Smith posted:Gabrus finding out that his random actor pal is Dario f'n Cueto on his latest podcast blew my mind.
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Feb 5, 2016 22:01
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The new With Special Guest is terrific. Eliza Skinner is very funny.
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Feb 5, 2016 22:31
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It made me wonder if there is such a thing as dramatic improv or other kinds of not necessarily comedy improv?
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Serial is fully improvised
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the Insane Piano posted:It made me wonder if there is such a thing as dramatic improv or other kinds of not necessarily comedy improv? Can't remember exactly where, but I've heard Matt Besser talk about studying under Del Close and him directing them to perform dramatic improv based on bleak news stories and encouraging them to find the emotional truth of the articles and whatnot, but that both the audiences and performers found it draining and incongruous with the comedy improv everyone was used to (Close had them do both as segments of one show). I think it's in either in a I4H episode about UCB history or an article on that or both.
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Feb 7, 2016 19:34
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GimpChimp posted:Can't remember exactly where, but I've heard Matt Besser talk about studying under Del Close and him directing them to perform dramatic improv based on bleak news stories and encouraging them to find the emotional truth of the articles and whatnot, but that both the audiences and performers found it draining and incongruous with the comedy improv everyone was used to (Close had them do both as segments of one show). I think it's in either in a I4H episode about UCB history or an article on that or both. I'm pretty sure one time was a harold about a woman drowning her kids or some poo poo. I forgot when he talked about that. But yeah serious walkouts.
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Feb 7, 2016 19:40
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the Insane Piano posted:It made me wonder if there is such a thing as dramatic improv or other kinds of not necessarily comedy improv? There's a handful of dramatic improv shows around, but nothing's really caught on. I seem to recall hearing about an improv group that performs improvised dramatic plays on the sets of actual plays in their off nights. I think in Chicago?
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the Insane Piano posted:It made me wonder if there is such a thing as dramatic improv or other kinds of not necessarily comedy improv? one of my improv teachers talked about how your characters become much more believable if you practice serious non funny scenes
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the Insane Piano posted:It made me wonder if there is such a thing as dramatic improv or other kinds of not necessarily comedy improv? There is but mostly as an acting exercise because it isn't interesting to watch.
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Feb 7, 2016 19:45
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GimpChimp posted:Can't remember exactly where, but I've heard Matt Besser talk about studying under Del Close and him directing them to perform dramatic improv based on bleak news stories and encouraging them to find the emotional truth of the articles and whatnot, but that both the audiences and performers found it draining and incongruous with the comedy improv everyone was used to (Close had them do both as segments of one show). I think it's in either in a I4H episode about UCB history or an article on that or both. Apparently Close would laugh during a few of those too while the rest of the room sat in silence.
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Feb 7, 2016 20:11
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Reading "Truth in Comedy" was interesting because Del seemed to really want the comedy to happen naturally. He wanted the audience to find the comedy in a situation and not be hit over the head with it. He was against going for the joke in improv. I don't think he'd like modern improv, actually.
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Feb 7, 2016 20:18
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PBS Newshour posted:Apparently Close would laugh during a few of those too while the rest of the room sat in silence. seems like he was operating on a truly god tier irony level. you KNOW he would have thought 9/11 was hilarious
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Tarranon posted:seems like he was operating on a truly god tier irony level. you KNOW he would have thought 9/11 was hilarious He would have started a class the next day "Let's do a scene set in the second tower just after the first one collapses".
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Feb 7, 2016 20:38
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Directors like Cassavetes and Robert Altman made movies with lots of improvised dialogue. Not exactly the same, since the basics of the character relationships and plot points were all mapped out, but it's like a dramatic version of the Curb Your Enthusiasm approach.
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UCB in LA runs a number of shows that are definitely less intentionally jokey. Much more patient play where naturally funny things will arise because you have very funny people on the stage.
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please don't put that racist poo poo on here thx
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Feb 8, 2016 13:44
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How can we tell if it's racist if we haven't listened to the episode yet?
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Feb 8, 2016 14:06
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It's always racist
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Bah bah bu Boo bah Boo Yo yo yo wha'ts up it's me Andrew T and this is yo is this racist with my guest, a guy i found in the UCB lobby at 10:45 pm on a wednesday Let's go to our question Hey Andrew love the show just wondering... my cousin is really into dirt bike racing and doing the big jumps. Is this racist? Hey thanks for the question, got to say neither me or my guest know anything about the topic, will do no research, and despite choosing these questions in advance I haven't thought at all about this before this exact second. I'd say it's probably racist. Bah bah bu Boo bah Boo
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Feb 8, 2016 15:56
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Help i am stuck in the tv. No wait its worst its a podcast. And its Yo is this racist? help!
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Feb 8, 2016 17:02
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So is a bunch of commenters saying racial slurs racist or not?
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Feb 8, 2016 18:10
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Yo, is running out of topics racist?
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Feb 8, 2016 18:17
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For anyone keeping up with Spont, have any recent ones been exceptional? It's hard keeping up with that one, when it's mostly a stable cast of players with no week to week changes aside from the special guest. In return, I'll tell you which episodes of Womp it Up have been good recently. The Job Daly one. That is all.
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UP AND ADAM posted:For anyone keeping up with Spont, have any recent ones been exceptional? It's hard keeping up with that one, when it's mostly a stable cast of players with no week to week changes aside from the special guest. I'm nearly caught up on SPONT, I didn't like it initially due to the longer narrative format. It's hard to improvise a long cohesive story like that, especially when everyone gets confused about what's going on. But I really feel like it's been awesome for a while, Paul and the regulars are getting better at it every episode. Especially the ones with Matt Gourley and the rest of the Super Ego crew (when they're all confused it just gets funnier).
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Feb 8, 2016 23:08
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Work Friend Keven posted:Bah bah bu Boo bah Boo
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ElCondemn posted:I'm nearly caught up on SPONT, I didn't like it initially due to the longer narrative format. It's hard to improvise a long cohesive story like that, especially when everyone gets confused about what's going on. But I really feel like it's been awesome for a while, Paul and the regulars are getting better at it every episode. Especially the ones with Matt Gourley and the rest of the Super Ego crew (when they're all confused it just gets funnier). Yeah, it's definitely improved over time, though I can't help but feel the format is flawed. If I'm listening while doing anything else, which I am when listening to a podcast almost by definition, by the time the break in the improv happens I'm totally lost and sometimes don't bother with the second half.
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Work Friend Keven posted:Bah bah bu Boo bah Boo this is real good and accurate, and Good.
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Work Friend Keven posted:Bah bah bu Boo bah Boo Perfect
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Just watched Gabrus' bit on the UCB show where he comes out looking like this and I know this probably wasn't the first time in his life where he chugged two beers with three raw eggs between them but ... loving hell Gabrus. At least he made it off the stage before throwing up.
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Feb 9, 2016 09:34
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Nah it's cool, he knows a lot of weightlifting and rugby terms, that makes him fit by osmosis.
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Zsinjeh posted:Nah it's cool, he knows a lot of weightlifting and rugby terms, that makes him fit by osmosis. He was in like, really great shape in high school and that carries over for the rest of your life.
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Feb 9, 2016 17:07
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Eating 50 wings in one sitting is sort of a athletic feat if you think about it.
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Feb 9, 2016 17:16
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If you weigh 300 lbs you gotta have pretty athletic feet.
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Feb 9, 2016 17:21
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Today's Hollywood Handbook is amazing. "Yeah, that's kind of all my commercials."
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Golden Bee posted:Today's Hollywood Handbook is amazing. "You bring up child genitals with the wrong client, they're out the door." "Oh, we know! We know. We have to do ad reads for this show sometimes, and it's not good."
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