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  2. Posted

    Some friends and I have started a weekly learning group based upon the UCB Comedy Improv Manual and I4H. (None of us have improvised before or had classes) We're learning long-form storytelling based improv based off of I4H primarily, with Asssscat and UCB TV show(the old one) inter-stitched.

     

    Currently we have 3 regular member with occasional drop-ins by others, and it always feels like we're a person or two short from being able to do the exercises we're interested in.

     

    We meet up at one of the improviser's house and practice in the basement. Bring your own beer. You don't have to participate in your first group if you just want to check the vibes.

     

    We meet every Wednesday, 6 to 9-9:30. I'd like to find others as interested as I am so we can add days of the week to meetup.

     

    Post here or message me for more details!

     

    I've started to keep a record of our class activities/plans so the group can decide which practice games we think are shitty. (Spoiler: A lot of short-form practice games.)

     

     

    http://improvlouisville.blogspot.com/

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    Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that segment and a few things I wanted to say. For starters, issue aside, it was awesome that the guy was such a big fan and immediately sniffed out Matt's attempt to "Crossballs" him (and the specific appropach Matt took in doing so was very funny). I agree with just about every point the guy made. In line with Blink's point here, I didn't like Matt's heroin argument, because people do heroin for their own pleasure, whereas pro football players play because someone is paying them a lot of money for the entertainment of other people. Even before medical science was scratching the surface of the dangers of football, you'd very rarely see adults playing recreational tackle football. All that said, I also thought Matt did a good job and it was nice to hear a CC that was friendly and sensible on both sides.

     

    This was a great argument until one of the guests started laughing at a completely reasonable point.

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    Here is a breakdown of the scenes from this episode. All suggestions (from a live audience or online) are called Twitter Suggestions. That's why they're labeled that way.

     

    - Intro Story – Snarky signs reprimand customers who don’t wash hands – 3 men in a single bathroom discuss being forced to wash hands by “the man” (1:42)

    - Twitter Suggestion – Confetti – Commander uses long-range confetti canon to convince the enemy the war is over (6:23)

    - Question from Listener – “What is the best/worst thing that happened to you at a concert?” – Prosecutor and defendant have no memory of the event but both feel they’re right (12:20)

    - Intro Story – Ian won the county science fair as a kid – Apocalypse survivors get excited when they meet the man they think can make electricity (16:47)

    - Twitter Suggestion – Autocorrect – Crazy Tom Stoppard fans finally get to meet their playwright hero (26:48)

    - Question from Listener – “What happened the last time you were lost?” –Customer’s low rating makes it hard for him to get through a normal day (37:30)

    - Question from Listener – “If you could try your hand at any job in the world for a week, what would you be most curious or eager to try?” – NBA players/Fat Albert gang are not happy that competition winner gets to play in a game (45:15)

    - Twitter Suggestion – Silver spoon – Two friends brainstorm a story to convince mom that they found her dollar so they can keep it (51:30)

    - Twitter Suggestion – Hitchhiking – Deathmobile driver picks up hesitant hitchhikers (57:43)

    - Twitter Suggestion – Parachute – Angry farmers accuse man who accidentally parachuted into their field of stealing corn (1:03:50)

    - Intro story – Advertising what you love – Ian pursues a hidden camera commercial for wet wipes (1:11:18)

     

    - Kevin The Intern's Intern

     

    You are awesome dude.

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    I've been listening to Comedy Bang! Bang! since Comedy Death Ray Radio as well as many other podcasts that are now staples on Earwolf. I would gladly pay $5 a month for the literally hundreds of hours of entertainment they've given me over the years. I just wish I could download all the extra content available on Howl to my iTunes. I do not now nor do I ever plan on owning an iPhone. I'd pay $5 for the new SuperEgo content alone. So I'm SuperBummed I'm missing out. :(

    In summation, will this extra content and programming ever see the light of day for download on iTunes? Cause if it's smart phone app only, this SuperFan is shit out of luck.

     

    There are only 2 full Superego episodes up. And unfortunately they have perhaps the worst podcasting record of consistently producing content.

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    No exact date, but the Android app is in the works. For now, you can access the premium content on your mobile browser at howl.fm

     

    To those of us who still have data-capped rates, this is going to be impossible. Accessing through browser-streaming rather than downloading/archiving would cause significant charges.

     

    Unrealistic expectation for fans to use the Howl site.

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    To be fair, though, you can get a lot of information from those YouTube clips. Those are clips that Razowsky himself has placed on his website to represent his best work. You don't expect to laugh out loud at recorded improv, but you can analyze the footage. For as much as he stresses REALLY listening and connecting with your scene parter, both the clips on his site and the one story we got from Besser show that he has a bad habit of stepping on his scene partner in order to get his ideas out. Forget "game" and slight differences between schools of improv, that's a basic principle everyone can agree on, and it's why Besser didn't want to perform with him anymore. Maybe that's not what he teaches, but it's what he seems to do. Add that to the footage of his class, where he endlessly rambles on about himself, and I think people should be forgiven if they come away with an impression of the man as a bit of a selfish performer. Also, he was bad-mouthing UCB, basically implying that it's more than just his taste, but rather impyling that the UCB is a second-class school.

     

     

    This

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    This premise also lends itself to the bullshit "equal opportunity offender" defense--misandry and misogyny are not even remotely the same, which should be obvious to everyone since yall all claim to care so much about context. How's this for context: misogyny is one of the oldest, deepest values in human civilization. The Greek philosophers were incredibly misogynist. The Old Testament is rank with misogyny. It permeates basically every aspect of our society, history/law/commerce/politics/art/all of it. Misogyny is human civilization's original sin. Misandry is some minor bullshit that insecure chumps have since time immemorial blown way out of proportion or more often straight up invented to scare other insecure chumps into supporting their fucked up feelings toward women.

    You're clearly not arguing about this episode any more.

     

    At least we have reached an "agree to disagree" moment.

    The equal opportunity offender concept is something I very much agree with: That if you are an asshole to everyone, you can't be picked on for being an asshole to one person in particular.

  19. Posted

    Sir Noah brings up some pretty irrelevant points to this argument. Let me help you focus m'lord.

     

    I feel like argument as to whether this incident was or was not misogynistic was only addressed by Souprman.

    In order to label something as misogynistic, it needs to meet some very simple criteria:

     

    To show, imply, or endorse a dislike or hatred of women.

     

    This definition leaves the proof of burden up to Participants A and B. In order to sufficiently meet the criteria of misogynistic, these participants must successfully argue that:

     

    1) SKM consistently expresses or feels a dislike or hatred of women.

     

    And,

     

    2)SKM expresses this dislike or hatred at a HIGHER RATE toward women, than to men.

     

    While participant B addressed the first criterian with some degree of success, he fell flat when he was unable to address the second.

     

    IN CONCLUSION:

    While SKM is an agreed upon asshole, the parties involved were unable to successfully argue that SKM actions were misogynistic.

     

     

     

    http://www.lddebate.net/

     

    Before anyone goes on about how I may "take this blah blah blah" too seriously, Ill go ahead and let you know that I do.

    Women's rights and equality are the goals, and I am a firm believer that the false causalities demonstrated are harmful to our shared success.

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  20. Posted

    I don't know a lot about improv outside the UCB, because if I'm being perfectly honest I4H was my first exposure to the long-form improv world. It's literally changed my life; my whole perspective on comedy and what I want to do has been changed because of this show.

    So, obviously I'm going to get defensive about anyone slamming UCB. First off, like Matt said, even just within Improv4Humans there's so much variety and variation. Adam McKay, for example, brings a completely different dynamic to the show when he's on (he's Second City, right?). In fact his hilariously-descriptive scene transitions had an obvious impact on the way Matt transitions scenes thereafter. The Canadian improv group Matt had on the show had a really different sensibility than the LA comedians he typically has on, but it was still improv. Any episode with Neil Campbell or Paul Rust has a different vibe...saying it's all the same is ignorant.

    I guess to me, even with my very limited knowledge of the form, coming out and bashing another school--especially another highly influential, respected school--seems antithetical to the very idea of improv. Improv is all about playing together. I'm sure different schools have different approaches and techniques, but at the end of the day you're still playing the same game. The fact that he said "I don't get it"...that's so old-fogey. You're honestly trying to attract new students to your school by acting like an old dude who "doesn't get" the hippest comedy scene in town? Boo.

     

     

    Me too. So refreshing coming from KY where all of the comedy is "blue collar" or grungy.

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    • If you reach the appropriate echelon, you will be allowed to audition for a team, but slots are extremely limited and only 1/100 people will make it. If you don't, you can either take more courses or bide your time until the next audition.

     

    1/100 of the people trying out for a team will make a team sounds made-up.

    In order to progress, you must take a series of escalating courses, to the tune of thousands of dollars.

     

    $250 a class is competitive with community college classes.

    • You must be willing to be paid little/nothing to perform at the UCB theaters, so that the popular/successful shows can subsidize new/experimental shows.

     

    This is 100% true as verifiable by Matt Besser on I4H - Ask the UCB #1

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