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Improv Nonsense

Will Hines
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These are essays about improv comedy from Will Hines, a Los Angeles actor, co-owner of an improv theater, longtime UCB teacher/performer, author of "How To Be The Greatest Improviser On Earth"

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Intentionality As Bait

Picture this guy made of gold, in Byzantium | Photo by Paul Rottmann on Unsplash

We live in an age of defiant assholes. Dunking on someone is the most revered comedic act. The president of America is a man whose only communication tactic i...

8 days ago
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Too Many Rules Ruins Improv

Saw this video in which funk bass guitar legend Bootsy Collins breaks down what he describes as the “basic funk formula.”

He basically says “make sure you play bass on the first beat of the measure and other than that do funky stuff in be...

14 days ago
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Coaching: Referee the Listening

“Tell them we’re working on pattern game next.” | Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

Coaching is less about you delivering improv wisdom and more about being a good administrator. Get the practice started. Pick the exercises. Find out wha...

22 days ago
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Intentionality Versus Flow

These two are about to do a premise initiation | Photo by Kaleidico on Unsplash

More on intentionality. I wrote about it a few weeks ago but it’s still all I can think about in terms of improv recently.


Today’s thesis: The real rev...

a month ago
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Chris Gethard: What I Learned Teaching A Group of Fifth and Sixth Grade Boys In My Town

The Chris Gethard Show | Photo: Andrew Bisdale

Today is a guest column from Chris Gethard. Gethard is a comedian from New Jersey. You know him from his podcast Beautiful / Anonymous, or his stand-up shows, or his books, or his television s...

a month ago
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