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" Acting is just about the script and the director giving you notes. In improv, it's more about trusting that the group will carry you. "
Director
Acting
You
" A story is ultimately a memory. It's important when you're telling a story to think about why this memory is a memory. You don't remember everything in life; you just remember certain things - so, why this one? "
Think
Memory
Life
" Don't invite me to a surprise birthday party. I don't have room for that secret. I've got enough real secrets I have to keep: dark, life-destroying secrets. "
Enough
Surprise
Me
" Every funny story has at least one unusual thing in it. "
Unusual
Every
Funny
" For all you Joe Besser haters who claim that he was the worst Stooge, that's not true - Curly Joe DeRita was the worst stooge. Joe Besser was the second worst. "
Claim
You
Worst
" I actually find prank CDs pretty annoying. "
Prank
Pretty
CDs
" I always like being a director in terms of giving acting notes and punching up on the fly. "
Director
Always
Giving
" I can't stand USC. They get such media attention. "
USC
Attention
Get
" I'd been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought I wasn't funny. "
Thought
Myself
Person
" I didn't even learn to play guitar until the movie 'Walk Hard,' which is probably fortunate because maybe I would have pursued it, and that would have been a waste of my time. "
Learn
Guitar
Hard
" I do believe if we opened up a comedy theater in a city, that we're going to be able to teach improv better than whoever's there already. In general, I think I could say that. "
Comedy
Think
Up
" I don't think 'Freak Dance' is a parody; it's more reference than anything. People don't think of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' as a 'Frankenstein' parody. It's kind of like that. "
Think
Picture
People
" I don't think I've ever had a conversation with a comedian who stole except for when it's been in anger. "
Anger
Been
Who
" If acting with other people is in your plans, then you need to learn how to work with other people to build a comedic premise. "
Need
Acting
You
" I feel like there are a lot of bands or musicians that probably think improv is corny, because I think that's a sentiment out there. "
Because
Think
Like
" I got really depressed when Sidney Moncrief lost to Larry Bird. That really depressed me. "
Got
Me
Lost
" I grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, and before the Internet and before everything, just to get anything interesting, you had to go on vacation to San Francisco or something. But I think when you're in the middle of America, you feel very jealous of not just comedy but music that you don't have access to. "
Vacation
Think
Music
" I grew up in the '80s, when breaking was cool, and then it got corny in the '90s, and it became cool again with all these choreographed B-Boy dance crews. "
Cool
Again
Up
" I guess that I was always considered a little too weird for the standup clubs and probably too jokey for doing performance art and those places where those are done. "
Performance
Done
Weird
" I like musicals that are sometimes comedic, but I haven't even seen the Monty Python musical, and I'm a huge Monty Python fan. "
Like
Fan
Sometimes
" I'll probably never stop improvising. "
Never Stop
Never
Improvising
" I'm more comfortable doing a character than being myself. "
Being Myself
Doing
Myself
" I'm more of a sketch guy than a standup. "
Than
Guy
Sketch
" Improv acting is not just saying the lines but connecting with the other actor. "
Lines
Saying
Acting
" I never liked the glossiness of highly produced standup specials in general - I like it where it has more of a feel of the type of places I usually perform. It seems kind of weird when you do a special to go perform in a place unlike the place where you perform 95% of the time. "
You
Feel
Place
" In most specials, the performer's up - not only not surrounded, but up on a stage - and there's a distance between them and the audience, and I think my comedy doesn't work as well in that way. "
Think
Comedy
Distance
" Instead of improvisers who want to be funny by themselves, we aim to try and make the scene itself as funny as possible. As a creator, I think that's someone you'd rather work with, whether it's a movie or a sitcom; that kind of methodology is good for collaboration. People want to be with those kinds of performers. "
People
Work
Funny
" I really enjoyed doing stand-up. Andy Kaufman was a big hero of mine. I tried to do conceptual stuff like he tried to do. "
Mine
Doing
Like
" I saw Chris Rock do standup before he was famous. I was just a teenager. That will always be special to me. "
Me
Always
Will
" I think it's pretty stupid to write off an entire genre of anything. It's one thing to say 'I don't like country music.' But it's pretty narrow minded to say 'All country music sucks.' Of course, that being said, all short-form improv sucks. "
Music
Stupid
Said
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