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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 you're 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. it's so expensive to make a tv show but to make a podcast you can record it in your room, put it up on the internet and people all over the world can see it. >> give me y...

Party. and then everybody went to denver. >> there's 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 don't say i don't have a horse, you say, my horse is gone. you don't know where that's going to take you. that's 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 used to be terrified of improv, until you realized you just had to keep talking, and be -- >> ...

Internet was hugely beneficial when i always felt like i would be good in sketches but nobody believes you in show business until you're 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. it's so expensive to make a tv show. but to make a podcast you can just record it in your room, you can put it up on the internet, and people all over the world can see it suddenly. >...

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 it's 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. >> you're facing catherine the great. >> we won't be defeated. tens of thousands of normans. >> the world of improv is a safe playing field. everybody is on the same ground. you don't come prepared. there's no sets or props. there literally is a backdrop and a couple of ch...

People become dentists, and they also become improv artists. >> with sketch comedy it's the immediacy of it. it's the daring of it. going back to like sid caesar on the beach with imo'gene 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. >> it's very ephemeral, it's over quickly, but if it was great and it really worked you get this nice little memory, maybe a little piece of videotape. it's the most exhilarating feeling because oh, my god, this sketch worked. >> when imp...