He was going to be performing in Los Angeles at the Improv, which is about a block and a half from where I lived. So the deal was, I'd pick him up at the airport, bring him back there where we'd record the interview, and then I'd drop him off at the Improv. I'll never ...
Lianna Patch:Cool. We’re gonna start with “Finding the Game.” This is an improv principal. The game is the one weird or unusual thing. In improv, when you walk out on stage, you start a scene, probably you, another person, maybe two other people, maybe a few other people. And ...
Here are some thoughts after this event: * As we were nearing “start” time, I told Misty that I’m never sure if I hope no one shows up or everyone shows up. I love being a good host but I also just want to set the scene and then crawl under a table to watch what’s going...
Just 23 whenSaturday Night Livepremiered, Los Angeles-born Laraine Newman had already studied mime with Marcel Marceau, helped found legendary improv troupe the Groundlings and appeared in a Lorne Michaels-produced Lily Tomlin TV special, co-written by Michaels. With her wisp-thin frame and frizzy...
paper, I realized just how tired I was. I really need to start this stuff earlier in the day. Of course, in the quiet of the night is really my favorite time to create. The stillness of the world around me is crucial to finding those crevices of the imagination where the ideas lurk...
Brenner recalled pulling up in a taxi outside an improv club in New York one day and seeing two comics punching each other on the street. “I’m paying the driver and I’m hearing one comedian yelling at the other, ‘You stole my Lenny Bruce routine!’” ...
“Like a good improv scene, it very quickly defines the relationship,” he says. “Someone’s job is to set the relationship ASAP so the other person knows how to proceed. That’s right off the improv stage right into our bots.” After Dr. Strange interviewed me for the job, he told...
Megan Fox, who costars in This Is 40, notes that during a scene in which she had to take off most of her clothes and be groped by Mann, she could tell that Mann was the mother of two girls. "She was protective of me. She wanted to get it over with as fast as possible, so ...