![]() “But for me it was a big exercise in letting things go, because I will obsess over things. “The part I like best about it is that you are never immune to a bad show,” he said. ![]() Show With Bob and David,” came to improv relatively recently through podcasting. Tompkins, who started in stand-up and as a writer on HBO’s “Mr. Like, my sweat glands know before my mind does. Sometimes I will start to sweat onstage, and that’s what tells me it’s going poorly. So, it might make it riskier for the people onstage, but the audience is more appreciative of any tiny joke you’re able to pull off.” “And then higher when you get to sketch, and then even higher when you get to stand-up. “The audience’s expectations for improv are the lowest,” said Appel, artistic director of UCB in L.A. The five laughed as they shared bomb stories but all agreed that - as risky and unpredictable as improv seems - it’s actually one of the safest forms of comedy. I was like: Just get me out of here.”ĭaly commiserated: “You feel the full weight of the regret of the money that person paid to park.” The moment that killed him? “I said a line, and there was a sigh in the audience. “I was so in my head that I wasn’t paying attention to what anyone was saying to me, and I was just thinking,” he said. Will Choi, who created the Asian American variety show “Asian AF” at UCB, remembered one particular early show. Like, my sweat glands know before my mind does.” “Sometimes I will start to sweat onstage, and that’s what tells me it’s going poorly. For some in improv, the worst moments are times when a fellow actor initiates a bit and “it feels like everybody in the room knows what my next move is supposed to be - except for me,” said Daly, who co-created and starred in the Comedy Central show “Review.” ![]()
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