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gratification. you kick the door in guns blazing and whatever happens happens. >> stop that, hes not my dad. >> sketches are a really fun way to talk about the culture with a quick turnaround. and i sketch you are satirizing life. >> satirizing. >> no, satirizing. >> my brain hurts. >> when you know people are improvising you are on the edge of your seats. >> everything you see tonight is being made up on the spot, we cant stress it enough. where is my mother? >> you have to go for it,...

Material. >> we would like you to suggest a character, not a proper name, not a real person, but i kind of person, occupational walk of life. >> peanut butter. >> peanut vendor, thank you. >> they will take suggestions from the audience, the cast goes backstage for 15-20 minutes while the audience what is more drinks and you come up and improvise based on the suggestions. >> what are you doing there? flowers? those are peanut shells, what you talking about! >> the end of a few months, when it is...

Acts, scripted material, a third act of improvised material. >> we need suggestions from the audience. wed like for you to suggest a character, not a proper name, not a real person, but a kind of person, an occupation, a walk of life. >> peanut vendor. >> a peanut vendor, thank you. >> they will take suggestions from the audience, the cast goes backstage for 15, 20 minutes while the audience orders more drinks. you come out and improvise based on the suggestions. >> what are you doing there? tho...

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...

They become the new set show. >> we wont be defeated. tens of thousands of normans. >> the world of improve is a safe playing field. everybody is on the same ground. you dont come prepared. theres no sets or props. there literally is a backdrop and a couple of chairs. in some ways it feels like an adult sand box. >> where you been? ive been gone for six months. >> after school there was a party. and then everybody went to denver. >> theres the basic improv 101 rule of the end, whatever comes you...