Posts Tagged ‘HUMOR’
Improv Tip #140 – Why You Must Not Be Precious About Improv (w/ David Escobedo) (2020)
Improv, Improv Comedy, Improvisation – whatever you call it, we’re here to help. In this week’s improv tip, guest tipper David Escobedo offers a tip about loosening your grip on “your improv” and all the great benefits that brings. Whether you’re doing improv comedy, playing improv games, using improv in your acting classes, or expressing…
Read MoreYes And…Then What? (w/ Elizabeth Mihelich) (2020)
Improvisers are known for making things up on the spot, but the art form itself is so transient. Even after the best shows, the audience and performers are left with only memories and that “you had to be there feeling.” Many improvisers, however, have taken the skills and sensibilities they learned and honed in improv…
Read MoreYes And… Then What? (w/ Christa Nannos) (2020)
Improvisers are known for making things up on the spot, but the art form itself is so transient. Even after the best shows, the audience and performers are left with only memories and that “you had to be there feeling.” Many improvisers, however, have taken the skills and sensibilities they learned and honed in improv…
Read MoreImprov Tip #139 – Know What's Happening (w/ Kevin Reome) (2020)
improv, Improv Comedy, Improvisation – whatever you call it, we’re here to help. In this week’s improv tip, guest tipper Kevin Reome offers a tip about knowing what’s going on in the scene (even when you don’t). Whether you’re doing improv comedy, playing improv games, using improv in your acting classes, or expressing yourself with…
Read MoreImprov Tip #138 – Silence (w/ Kat Kenny) (2020)
Improv, Improv Comedy, Improvisation – whatever you call it, we’re here to help. In this week’s improv tip, veteran teacher and improviser Paul Vaillancourt brings you guest tipper Kat Kenny talking about the use of silence in improv. She pulls together a bunch of ideas and really shows many facets of this great, but under-used,…
Read MoreImprov Tip #137 – Online Improv (w/ Amey Goerlich) (2020)
Improv, Improv Comedy, Improvisation – whatever you call it, we’re here to help. In this week’s improv tip, veteran teacher and improviser Paul Vaillancourt brings you guest tipper Amey Goerlich to talk about improv online – a topic becoming more and more important. Whether you’re doing improv comedy, playing improv games, using improv in your…
Read MoreImprov Tips #130 – Set Improv Games For The Harold – Movie Review (2019)
Set Improv Games For The Harold – Movie Review (The first in a six part series) The Harold is considered by many to be the mother of all long form improv but teaching and learning the Harold can be tricky at times. We, as improvisers, spend most of our time (as we should) on the…
Read MoreImprov Tips #129 -Play Off The Top Of Your Intelligence (2019)
Improv, Improv Comedy, Improvisation – whatever you call it, we’re here to help. In this week’s improv tip, veteran teacher and improviser Paul Vaillancourt answers a question from a viewer: How do I build trust with my team? Paul gives three different strategies for building trust using improv techniques. Whether you’re doing improv comedy, playing…
Read MoreImprov Tips #128 – Be Seen (w/Doreen Calderon) (2019)
Improv, Improv Comedy, Improvisation – whatever you call it, we’re here to help. In this week’s improv tip, guest tipper Doreen Caleron pulls together a few themes we’ve been circling for the past few months around the idea that “improvisers are actors” Whether you’re doing improv comedy, playing improv games, using improv in your acting…
Read MoreImprov Show – Pete and Paul Explain It All (Improv Duo) – (Partial Show) (2000)
Pete and Paul Explain It All is a two-man improv show with a cast of thousands starring Paul Vaillancourt and Pete Gardner. Based on a single suggestion, this veteran improv duo start with some fun banter explaining what the suggestion means to them and then launch into some high-calibre improvisation weaving a complex, multi-faceted world…
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