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The Atlantis scene is so top notch it's ridiculous. Slightly disappointed that the porta potty sushi sketch didn't make it though. Or was it even in the running? I don't know how these work.

I've only started listening to this but Scott's Snarkometer is in Dangerous territory, right up there with the later U Talkin' U2 to Me episodes.

Honestly, who gives a shit what it is, so long as it's funny? Short form, long form, guy gets hit in the junk with a football, who cares. I like it all.

As a D&D player, I was very disappointed by how wrong their portrayal of actual D&D dynamics was in this episode. Very funny episode, but please, ahem, get your facts straight, gentlemen. Might I recommend perusing the 3rd edition Player's Handbook? *pushes up glasses*

I think Scott and Ben Schwartz should do a podcast where they go to an all night rave. It can be a one off solo bolo. Oh, great ep by the way, and I know they didn't mention it but I do think there was an episode of "What's Your Funk Style?" in there towards the end.

I haven't read the book yet, actually! Like I said, I came into improv really hating it (except Whose Line, sorry), but the scene here is large enough that I couldn't escape it. Plus I went to school for theatre and thus am desperate to be on the stage all the goddamn time, so I started going to rehearsals for the group I'm in. I know some people in the scene who do long form and am interested in pursuing whatever I can that will get me in front of an audience to entertain them. So I reckon the book is a good start, improv-wise.

Hey, this is actually something I'm dealing with right now! Huzzah. I am a part of a short form improv (or party games) group in Portland. We do short form, we acknowledge constantly that it is a low form of improvisation and that we're doing it primarily as a comedic performance. We're okay with that. We don't get huge crowds at our shows, and our director and host goes out of his way to explain the games as quickly as possible to the audience so they don't get bogged down. We love Whose Line and steal some of their games (though we also have incorporated Matt's "cut to's" in our games as well). We know our audience came to laugh at relatively cheap jokes, but we also try hard to do the best we can. We started as a college group but are slowly trying to break out of that, as almost none of us are in college anymore. We're also mostly in our 30s, and the majority of us have never really done improv before, but are theatre nerds and know the basic basics of improv. There is another college group, peers of mine and friends, who do long form and basically think we're terrible. They talk about us in much the same way Matt talks about short form, and their mentor, a terrific improviser, calls long form "storytelling" and short form "stand up comedy," which I can't really disagree with. We hear a lot of criticism from the improv community here simply because we do short form games. Yet every time we have a show it goes great: people laugh, they enjoy feeling like they are a part of the show because they get to throw out suggestions, they very rarely actually shout out suggestions to "stump" us. We have a good time and that's really all I want out of it. I go to the other group's shows and enjoy them and go to other long form shows and enjoy them too. I feel like that makes me seem "dumb," like I don't give a shit or something, but honestly, I don't really care, I just want to enjoy good performance art, wherever it comes from. I had a point originally but I lost track. Short form is easier to market, unfortunately. If it makes you feel any better, we've done all of our shows for free so far and I don't expect us to make any real money anytime soon. Improv may be somewhat lucrative in LA/Chi/NYC, but everywhere else, not so much. Sorry, this got way longer than I had expected. I love this podcast, and Matt and UCB's improv (what I've been able to see, at least) has given me a profoundly better impression of improv than I had ten years ago, living in Boise among a theatre community that thought ANY form of improv was a pile of shit. I also agree that short form should not be lumped with "improv," but the logistics of distancing it in the mind's eye of the entire country, a large percentage of which has no clue about improv whatsoever, or doesn't care, or only knows Whose Line, will be difficult. I AM RAMBLING, but only because I love.

Hello, medium time listener, first time commenter. Sappity Tappity sounds a lot like Andrew Lloyd Webber. I kept expecting him to call Scott "Scottrick." That is all I wanted to say (besides good show, made me laugh, etc etc)