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Improv Nonsense

Will Hines, Elissa Bassist
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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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What We Talk About When We Talk About Game

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“Game” (“game of the scene”) gets a bad rap in the improv world at large. But it’s not game they hate. It’s all the baloney people do while trying to be good at game.

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Game vs Relationship: Will Hines and Craig Cackowski discuss

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The Press Will Never Like Improv

PLUG: on Tuesday Oct 28 at 10am, Craig Cackowski and I will do a live video chat about “Game Vs Relationship.” An extremely niche topic, but one that reads of this newsletter would enjoy! Please tune in!

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Scenic Handshake, Comedy Handshake

First, a plug. This Wednesday Oct 21 at 2:30pm PDT, the Bozos (myself, Jim Woods and Sarah Claspell) are doing an improv Q&A on our theater’s YouTube channel @worldsgreatestimprov. We will be on the stage of our theater WGIS in Los Angeles....

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A Grab Bag Of Improv Thoughts

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A plug first: you can subscribe to this newsletter for either $5 a month or the much lower cost of $30 a year. When you do that, you’re also indirectly supporting the improv theater I co-...

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  • Will Hines

    Actor, funny, Los Angeles

  • Elissa Bassist

    Author of HYSTERICAL, a semifinalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor / Co-author of INSIDE JOKES: A Comedy and Creativity Guide for All Writers (out Oct. 20th) / Humor writing teacher / Virgo

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