Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.
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If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.
I'm used to sort of improvising a lot when I do my comedies.
I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.
I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to create, and to be generating information, and trying to be funny, but if you just listen to what's being said to you, and then react honestly, you generally get better results.
I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have to know your character, and then you have to let go.
I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
Improv has been immensely beneficial to me as both an actor and a writer.
I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life.
My background is all comedy. I've been doing improv since I was 17. It's funny, because when I meet people, I'm known as this guy who will punch you in the face or throw you out a window, when I also have a background in comedy.
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