The Business: Improv & Sketch Comedy: Part One - Training

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Part one, of this three part series, will explore improv and sketch comedy training and techniques.
"With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny." - Kristen Wiig
Part one, of this three part series, will explore improv and sketch comedy training and techniques. Panelists will discuss the similarities and differences between the various types of improv and sketch, which classes and programs best serve an actors' career goals, and the philosophy and focus of each school.
Look for parts two and three of the series in June and July. Part two will cover creating and producing with a sketch comedy team and part three will cover marketing and branding.
David Jahn, George McAuliffe, Johnny Meeks, Doug Morency, Miles Stroth.
Moderated by Susan Isaacs.

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14 окт 2024

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@SAGAFTRAFoundation 10 лет назад

12:50 - “What skills are the students picking up along the way? Do you want to talk a little about the character work or Improv skills?” 14:40 - “George, do you want to tell us what the foundations of IO are?”

@SAGAFTRAFoundation 10 лет назад

32:35 - “A couple of things came up as you were talking… The first, what do you do when someone goes first? And also talking about people coming in and using their bag of funny tricks and how do you break that down and get people to be honest. How do you work in breaking that down, allowing them to be not funny for a hot minute, and getting them to just trust being in the scene and finding the reality of it or the honesty in that?”

@SAGAFTRAFoundation 10 лет назад

17:42 - “Are your Improv and sketch integrated or are they separate tracts?” 19:20 - “Johnny, UCB?” 22:30 - “Have any of you ever thought about asking for a writing credit on a commercial?” 22:40 - “Doug, why don’t you tell us about Second City?” 26:48 - “Can you explain what you mean about an Improv living over 12 months? You’re not starting to write it… Do you mean bringing the same ideas and characters back?” 28:25 - “Miles Stroth, of the Miles Stroth Experience…”

@SAGAFTRAFoundation 10 лет назад

41:45 - “Anyone have a last word before we go to questions? Anything you want to say?” 43:25 - “Johnny, you were going to say something?”

@SAGAFTRAFoundation 10 лет назад

6:30 - “Will you explain to the audience the different long forms that have developed over time? 7:45 - “Doug, what are some of the different long forms that they do at Second City?” 9:00 - “I just wanted to go down the row so each of you can talk a bit about the school you come from. What’s the foundation of your school? What are the main emphases? How did they start? How do they approach sketch and Improv? Are they integrated or separate tracts? How do the classes progress over time?”

@SAGAFTRAFoundation 10 лет назад

55:10 - “As a person who wants to cultivate comedic talent but doesn’t necessarily want to be a comedian, how important is training versus instinct? And what are the good courses to keep skills sharp for the weekend funny person to take?” 58:19 - “Dell Close talked about having to perform the evening of the challenger tragedy because it is precisely the night for comedy. What performance story forced you to tip the scales for laughter in the face of tragedy? … Anyone perform on September 11.”

@SAGAFTRAFoundation 10 лет назад

34:15 - “Miles talk about that! What do you do when someone goes first?” 36:30 - “Doug, can you talk about, if you would, to this group of actors, what would you tell them, if you had a direction say going toward sketch or going towards Improv. Are there any generalizations about the type of actor and what you would direct them towards?”

@AztekFunk 10 лет назад

Thank you for posting this. It was very informative!

@SAGAFTRAFoundation 10 лет назад

1:01:48 - “Is your school able to help with networking and job opportunities and if so how?” 1:03:05 - “Miles, you said, you spent 25 years thinking about Improv, is there anything you regret about that?” 1:04:50 - “Are there any particular Improv actors, new or old, you suggest we study?”

@wgoldsborough 7 лет назад

Love this! Can't wait to watch the rest of them! Thanks SAG-AFTRA

@SAGAFTRAFoundation 10 лет назад

49:10 - “I have one, intellectual properties. Do you copyright ideas of writing before you perform them?” 50:30 - “I was a toastmaster and I learned improv… I understand that this is different... My question is would I be able to build upon what learned? Or would I have to start over?”

@SAGAFTRAFoundation 10 лет назад

51:20 - “Where do you draw the line with ‘yes and…?’ or might there be a story that comes to mind when you feel like ‘yes and…?’ brought you somewhere too far. You kept saying ‘yes and…?’ and… fell off a cliff.” 53:21 - “Johnny, can you talk a little bit more about what you mean ‘if this is true… this also may be true’ is that part of the game? And could you explain that a little bit?”

@SAGAFTRAFoundation 10 лет назад

40:10 - “David, I know that when we were in the Groundlings it was just short form and I love the character and the point of your work, but the Groundlings has also evolved and now they’re doing like, I think it’s, Crazy Uncle Joe and Melanie Started Cooking with Gases, is there anything else at the Groundlings that you wanted to mention that we may have not covered yet?”

@SAGAFTRAFoundation 10 лет назад

1:07:03 - “Comedy is messy, how do you know where to draw the line between a funny but honest mess, and a pile of shit? ... In other words is there a too far?” 1:11:55 - “How do your schools benefit actors who seek comedy training to use in films, sketch sitcoms and character development. And how does your school’s style of Improv develop a comedic actor?” 1:13:10 - “Well, just to wrap up, why don’t we just go down the row, and say whatever you want to say, to sign us off!”

@SAGAFTRAFoundation 10 лет назад

46:00 - “Isn‘t that the name of Charna and Dell’s book Truth in Comedy? That’s one of the biggest lessons to learn; to just tell the truth and be invested in your point of view and the humor will come out of that because it’s a human experience. I have some questions [from the audience], oh this is going to be fun, ‘I always wonder where the black girls are on shows like SNL. Is it training or what? Even Latinas or Asians are unrepresented on shows, I ask to a group of white men?”

@SAGAFTRAFoundation 10 лет назад

5:45 - “Who would like to describe to our audience [the difference] between sketch and Improv?”

@SAGAFTRAFoundation 10 лет назад

39:13 - “Johnny, I know that there is a lot of stuff going on at UCB. I did some spoken word stuff with Matt Price there. You have a lot of other things going on. Are there any particular programs other than the sketch and the improv you wanted to talk about that’s going on at UCB right now?”