PretentiousMattyB

To Matt Besser: You, sir, are a pretentious asshole. I love listening to improv4humans, I watched the UCB TV show when growing up, I have seen a few live shows in New York, and I own the UCB Comedy Improvisation Manual. That being said, in the last year you have come off as a real pretentious asshole. You have proclaimed yourself as the judge, jury, and executioner of what is improv. I know that you are a major reason why improv and improv comedians/actors are so prevalent today, but who are you to judge what other people do and say it isn't improv? You wrote the manual, but did you define the term? Just because you think that things like Whose Line are lowest common denominator doesn't mean they aren't funny to someone. And who is to say that someone won't see something like that and be inspired to try improv for themselves? What you are doing is discouraging people, mostly your fans, from expanding their horizons and turning them into an army of trolls. Most case closed segments seem to be you have already stated your opinion, but you would like to rub it in someone's face. It was pretty funny when the right-wing political guy wouldn't at least talk to you on the show, but could you blame him? Other segments have been you just shitting on someone while you "listen" to their point of view. And in this most recent episode, #146, you are doing a plug for other shows on the Earwolf Network and you call them out as being phonies. You've done this before and you just sound like a high school dropout mad that his friends who went to college have left him behind. Wallowing in your life that could have been, surrounding yourself with people who will praise at the alter that is "Matty B, the godfather of improv." This is a comedy podcast and you are a comedian, so it could be said that this is all an act. A character of some douchey guy who takes himself way too seriously and likes to push people's buttons. But this character is tired. Calling people out on their bullshit is what the world needs, but then not being the bigger person and accepting when someone does it to you shows just how much of a pretentious asshole you are.