An Ethnography on Improv Comedians

[jesster]

http://www.lulu.com/content/393666

Anyone else see this book? Many of you are in it since it is based on the author's experiences at the Hideout Theatre watching improv. It reads like a long blog.

-Jesster

[Roy Janik]

It started life as a graduate project at UT. Happily, it has a lot of me (and kareem and wes) in it, because it was written just when I was coming out of classes and playing Maestro a lot.

Actually, it's still available for free:

http://www.suzannemahadeo.com/improv/ethnography.pdf

And the website is here:

http://www.suzannemahadeo.com/improv/

[Wesley]

"Wes, who calls himself “Guybrushâ€

[Wesley]

"He then told me that because of improv, Wes actually broke up with his recent girlfriend since he was spending so much time practicing his craft (or at least that’s what they both decided was the problem)."

HA! I forgot about this sentence which I love for even more reasons!
It's funny how improv can destroy one relationship and build a newer, better, stronger one in its place. Go improv!

[kaci_beeler]

It started life as a graduate project at UT.

*cough cough*
Not UT, St. Edward's.

[Jules]

Aw! Cool! Look at all of us!

[andrea]

i would like to point out that that first picture is actually of the foolish mortals...neither ted nor ed piston ever played with wooden nickel

[deroosisonfire]

i was just talking about this the other day. i told jeff, a current heroes student, that he had a better first lighting experience than i did since i had a woman write about how i was making the audience participate less than usual.

[nadine]

i missed this, but.. the funny thing is suzanne and i were in the Austin Geek Girls sports group.