HeyJaredImprov Nonsense
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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Comedy in Improv/Improv in Writing, with Will Hines and Elissa Bassist (opens the original)
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Podcast With Ian / Harold Night “Text Adventure” (opens the original)
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I’m plugging two things: a new podcast I’m doing with Ian Roberts and an old video game (kinda) I made where you are someone on Harold NightPLUGS: COMMENCE!New Podcast: How Do You Get Through The DayIan Roberts (co-founder of UCB Theater, co-showrunner of Key and Peele, among many other cool credits) and I are doing a podcast. It’s called How Do You Get Through The Day? and we talk to each other and guests about coping skills we use to deal with (Prince voice) this thing called life.Subscribe wh
You’re Rusty: What To Do (opens the original)
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More Clips: Sober Show Edition (opens the original)
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What Makes A Good Second Beat? (opens the original)
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A recent dinner with an improv friend of mine revealed to me that we all want different things —- sometimes vastly different — from second beats in Harolds.
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