April 2012
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Charna Halpern Interview →
britajames:
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improvnonsense:
This is a bad-ass, interesting, articulate interview with someone who made maybe the coolest comedy theater in the history of three dimensional space.
Good stuff.
- vinny
This is my favorite part:
The women who are discouraged see themselves as victims and they have to stop that. They say “Men steamroll me.” You just have to make...
You guys
avcnyc:
What if Jesus wasn’t resurrected, what if he was just brought back as a hologram for a disciples reunion tour?
SERIOUS QUESTION.
Yes.
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What Improv Comedy Looks Like to Outsiders...
From AN OPEN LETTER TO WOULD-BE IMPROV COMEDIANS by Daniel Falk:
“It wasn’t long into the show before the performers exposed themselves as the deadbeat hacks I now know them to be….
What do you imagine happened after I delivered the clever suggestion of a dildo, an object of obvious value to any comedic scene? Did they leap in joy, anticipating what was sure to be a priceless...
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#BibleSexScenes #dontspillyerseed
Genesis 38: 8-10
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife and fulfill your duty to her as a brother-in-law to raise up offspring for your brother.” But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother. What he did was wicked in the LORD’s sight; so the LORD...
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#BibleSexScenes
Genesis 30:16
So when Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him. “You must sleep with me,” she said. “I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
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Judges 16:19
After putting him to sleep on her lap, she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair, and so began to subdue him. And his strength left him.
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Episode two of "This Can't Be It!"
seanporeilly:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/thiscantbeit/podcast_episode_2_2.mp3
Hey there, check out the newest “This Can’t Be It!”
GUYS I DID THIS PODCAST IT WAS FUN BUT EVEN MORE FUN FOR YOU TO LISTEN TO IT
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Talking Del Close and the Early Days of Chicago... →
improvnonsense:
I did this interview with Alex Baze for splitsider.com. You read splitsider, right? Don’t be dumb: read splitsider.
splitsider:
He was in his late 50s when I was taking classes from him and he had a shitty apartment and slept on a futon and all he ever did was hang around Improv Olympic, watching or teaching, never really performing. His classes were so insane. It was a three...
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I just learned what my brain does when I improvise
Charlies J. Limb:
“During improvisation, the prefrontal cortex of the brain undergoes an interesting shift in activity, in which a broad area called the lateral prefrontal region shuts down, essentially so you have a significant inhibition of your prefrontal cortex.”
From Improvising Creativity by Douglas Eby. I know he’s talking about jazz improvisation, BUT I THINK IT COUNTS.
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