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Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer

:master:

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doverhog
May 31, 2013

Defender of democracy and human rights 🇺🇦

Yoshi Wins posted:

I actually don’t hate improv, and the reason I could make fun of it from experience is that I’ve been to many improv shows. When it’s good, it’s absolutely stunning. I’ve seen multiple shows that were hilarious, original, and even emotionally moving, all at the same time.

It’s just that it’s a rare hobby where the only real way to practice it is in front of other people. An aspiring novelist can crumple up their lousy efforts and throw them in the trash. People with less than a thousand hours of improv experience must show their shortcomings to a live audience. It takes bravery!

IMO, it is also OK to acknowledge that if the show features inexperienced performers, it is very unlikely to be funny. The ones who will get good probably understand this.

What stops you from practicing improv in front of a mirror, or with your brother in a garage?

Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
https://twitter.com/MeredithFrost/status/1188473393441595395?s=19

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
“attempting”

thepopmonster
Feb 18, 2014


Fatty Crabcakes posted:

Is this a real conversation or did the balloon full of ketamine in my rear end rupture?

I thought that the most you'd need to do to be in an improv group was pay?

Learn something new every day, I guess.

Yoshi Wins
Jul 14, 2013

doverhog posted:

What stops you from practicing improv in front of a mirror, or with your brother in a garage?

You can practice with other people in a room and it does help, but very, very often, audience laughter comes as a COMPLETE surprise in improv. That’s a pretty much universal experience. So getting to the point of knowing what actually works is harder than it sounds.

Of course, artists misjudge their own work often in all kinds of art forms. I can’t prove the effect is larger in improv, but I’m convinced that it is.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


https://twitter.com/emmahvossen/status/1138841342921060354

sephiRoth IRA
Jun 13, 2007

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

-Carl Sagan


https://twitter.com/abirdofonesown/status/1138726275470700544?s=20

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/cat_beltane/status/1188853733297475585

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

https://twitter.com/aspic_tarantula/status/1188684079669092352?s=21

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1188872050221256705?s=19

https://twitter.com/buffalocialism/status/1188873498074275841?s=19

Tbf, there is a definite through-line between the tucked-in t-shirt history nerd kids and the natsec ghouls whose job is to be "media consultants"

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

MizPiz posted:

https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1188872050221256705?s=19

https://twitter.com/buffalocialism/status/1188873498074275841?s=19

Tbf, there is a definite through-line between the tucked-in t-shirt history nerd kids and the natsec ghouls whose job is to be "media consultants"

Oliver North is clearly not part of the curse because he was convicted of treason before first person shooters existed.

Also the Madden curse is player's being featured on a cover and having a lovely season or an injury, all of these people did their crimes well before they were in a video game.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos
https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1189006339554643968


(screencapping for when Andy realizes how counter-productive this is)

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Absurd Alhazred posted:

https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1189006339554643968


(screencapping for when Andy realizes how counter-productive this is)

As long as the money comes in he won't give a poo poo. More attention means more people likely to give to the grift.

Mak0rz
Aug 2, 2008

😎🐗🚬

Rubbing alcohol and paper towels are a lot more expensive than I remember

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Inceltown posted:

As long as the money comes in he won't give a poo poo. More attention means more people likely to give to the grift.

(The gofundme is a joke, I think)

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Absurd Alhazred posted:

(The gofundme is a joke, I think)

You just can't tell in this hell world.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Inceltown posted:

You just can't tell in this hell world.

That's what made it a good tweet. Otherwise I would have put Andy in the IoSM thread, but I'd rather give exposure to good people dunking on bad ones if possible.

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

That’s a Tri-Met (Portland public transit) bus stop. Even if that pane of plexiglass cost $120k (lol), he can’t replace it anyway.

Eschenique
Jul 19, 2019

https://twitter.com/InnuendoStudios/status/1189029027920654337?s=20

Mak0rz posted:

Rubbing alcohol and paper towels are a lot more expensive than I remember

It's like those images of tips to remove various things and one of them was like "use toothpaste and lemon to remove magic marker from glass"

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

Absurd Alhazred posted:

https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1189006339554643968


(screencapping for when Andy realizes how counter-productive this is)

Let's be honest, if it came down to it, how much of a "martyr" would he actually be?

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)


Olly Thorn was bitten by a radioactive daddy.

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
https://twitter.com/bootycheeks/status/1188552624192311297?s=19

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/jilliancyork/status/1189165422161137664

Goddamn it I've been depriving myself for so long

Rainbow Knight
Apr 19, 2006

We die.
We pray.
To live.
We serve

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/jilliancyork/status/1189165422161137664

Goddamn it I've been depriving myself for so long

I don't think "desiccant" is the same as "the outer packaging presents a choking hazard" but I'm not the one eating desiccant so what do I know?

https://twitter.com/VideosFolder/status/1188946942388310016

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/MilesKlee/status/1189002040694865920

Big Dick Cheney
Mar 30, 2007
If you eat one of those silica packets your entire body dries out like that guy in Indiana Jones

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Straight White Shark posted:

A lot of jokes bashing improv are coming from comedians with improv experience.

Like Jews, another oppressed minority (to a lesser extent), improv comedians use self-deprecating humor to help cope with the oppression they must grapple with on a daily basis.

Also, if you've liked a comedy in the past 50 years or so, the chances that it was written, directed or featured a Second City, Groundlings, UCB, or ComedySportz alum are pretty high

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

I have not.

Hedenius
Aug 23, 2007
https://twitter.com/jeremysmiles/status/1189195181909635072?s=21

Neurion
Jun 3, 2013

The musical fruit
The more you eat
The more you hoot

https://twitter.com/YTPOOC/status/1188264410101383169

Dr Christmas
Apr 24, 2010

Berninating the one percent,
Berninating the Wall St.
Berninating all the people
In their high rise penthouses!
🔥😱🔥🔫👴🏻
https://mobile.twitter.com/StormXF3/status/1187021140511858688

Neurion
Jun 3, 2013

The musical fruit
The more you eat
The more you hoot


I disturbed a lot of people at break the other day when I burst out laughing at this poo poo

Your Gay Uncle
Feb 16, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
https://twitter.com/RevUnionTrades/status/1053128967744557056

https://twitter.com/RevUnionTrades/status/1053129388596908032

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020
Remember that Nancy photoshop thread from a while back?

https://twitter.com/OnyxOblivion/status/1189299753420513281?s=20

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

https://twitter.com/jaynooch/status/1189193683834290176

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4

Pththya-lyi posted:

Remember that Nancy photoshop thread from a while back?

https://twitter.com/OnyxOblivion/status/1189299753420513281?s=20

Both tremendous and I feel personally attacked.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/1189312457724104706

e: Didn't bother to post a screenshot because it seemed quite uncontroversial so have one now it's deleted.

Inceltown has a new favorite as of 00:57 on Oct 30, 2019

Ichabod Tane
Oct 30, 2005

A most notable
coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.


https://youtu.be/_Ojd0BdtMBY?t=4
I mean it's funny but the three martini lunch has been dead since the 70s or is millennials killing a thing that boomers did a source of pride for my generation?

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MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos
The new thing is "cheapest drink available" lunches

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