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Internet was hugely beneficial when i always felt like i would be good in sketches but nobody believes you in show business until youre already doing it. so the internet became this wonderful playground to prove it. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to s pochlt ntaneanation. it is time to do our improv. >> podcasts are the most significant technological invention to happen to comedy since the invechkts ntion of th album. its so expensive to make a tv show but to make a podcast you can record...

Party. and then everybody went to denver. >> theres the basic improv 101 rule of yes, and, whatever comes your way, whatever your improv partner says, you agree to it and build on it. >> someone comes in and says your horse has escaped, you dont say i dont have a horse, you say, my horse is gone. you dont know where thats going to take you. thats a good rule. >> no idea that you were stoned on pot. flying high under the effects of a reefer. >> come on, son, you always were a bit of a wimp. >> i ...

Internet was hugely beneficial when i always felt like i would be good in sketches but nobody believes you in show business until youre already doing it. so the internet game this wonderful playground to prove it. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to spontaneanation. it is time to do our improv. >> podcasts are the most significant technological invention to happen to comedy since the invention of the album. its so expensive to make a tv show. but to make a podcast you can just record it in ...

While the audience orders more drinks. you come out and improvise based on the suggestions. >> what are you doing there? those are peanut shells. >> the end of a few months, when its ready to write a new show, we take the improvised scenes that were successful and we hone them and rewrite them. they become the new set show. >> youre facing catherine the great. >> we wont be defeated. tens of thousands of normans. >> the world of improv is a safe playing field. everybody is on the same ground. yo...

People become dentists, and they also become improv artists. >> with sketch comedy its the immediacy of it. its the daring of it. going back to like sid caesar on the beach with imogene coca getting buckets of water thrown in his face or you think "saturday night live" and julia childs bleeding to death or the dead parrot sketch on monty python. >> paulie. >> its very ephemeral, its over quickly, but if it was great and it really worked you get this nice little memory, maybe a little piece of vi...