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All good improv is alike; bad improv is bad in its own way

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jillybee72 wrote:All bad improv looks like the lobby, because that's where I go stand while it's happening.
yay!
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Jeff wrote:
jillybee72 wrote:All bad improv looks like the lobby, because that's where I go stand while it's happening.
yay!
Ouch.

Where is your team spirit? Your Moral Support for your improv peeps? I'll bet they've suffered through a few of your disasters. Sure, it's a clever comment, but hopefully not indicative that you'd really bail (as an audience member) on the poor unfortunates on stage. There, but for the grace of God, and all that...
What is to give light must endure burning. - Viktor Frankl
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KathyRose wrote:
Jeff wrote: yay!
Ouch.

Where is your team spirit?
Team spirit? I said "yay."


To clarify, when I'm doing bad improv, I wish I had the freedom to just walk into the lobby and wait it out. I guess I do have that freedom, but I sure don't mind if somebody thinks they'll feel better if they walk out into the lobby. Either way, I'm going to be critical of myself afterwards and figure out a way to make my next performance better.
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KathyRose wrote:
Jeff wrote:
jillybee72 wrote:All bad improv looks like the lobby, because that's where I go stand while it's happening.
yay!
Ouch.

Where is your team spirit? Your Moral Support for your improv peeps? I'll bet they've suffered through a few of your disasters. Sure, it's a clever comment, but hopefully not indicative that you'd really bail (as an audience member) on the poor unfortunates on stage. There, but for the grace of God, and all that...
My laugh is my bond. It must be earned to have meaning. I have seen my share of bad improv, and I still do. I just don't watch it all.

Post by Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell »

team spirit be damned. every man for himself and any excuse to go get a beer. :P
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