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“Sarah Claspell plays game so well and so effortlessly. I miss watching her perform.”

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I did not submit this, but I agree 100%. I miss Sarah A LOT.

Honestly? I don’t usually participate in this stuff, but yeah Sarah is the shit also she came to my birthday once

You guys! This is really too nice and I’m blushing. Geez.

UGH! Even her blushing is on game!

I’d love to see an honest discussion about this idea, but I’ll lead off with some theories that I have on this topic.

Improvisation has no STATS. As a guy who grew up as a sports junkie, and still am to a sense, my life revolved around numbers that told me exactly where I stood. Now that I am a runner, I can judge a run based purely on how fast I get it done. I don’t have to think about how well I did, because I had the numbers to tell me.

So I always had these numbers to tell me my average, and it’s pretty easy to be happy when you are hitting your average, and you feel AMAZING when you perform at just a slightly higher level than your average.

With improvisation, for some reason, it feels I equate my best show to be my average, and that anything below my best feels like I let my teammates down. I set my average bar way too high for me to reach on a consistent level, so now I’m constantly clawing up a mountain to try to reach it EVERY show. Impossible. Fucking impossible.

When I played baseball, I could make ONE amazing play in a game, and I would feel like I had the best game of my life. In improv, I can make one good move, and it means shit to me.

I wonder if stats would help, or make it worse? If I knew, on average, how many “on game” moves I make. Would it matter? Would it matter if I knew, statistically if I performed better than my average. Would I leave more shows feeling better about them?

I don’t know. I just see so many performers who are super down about the show they did, when I thought they had a GREAT show.

Or is this simply how we improve? Do we have to beat ourselves up until we become numb to our own abuse?

I think about this a lot. I would like to be able to find a way to tell an improviser why their show was better than they thought it was. I’d like to be able to break it down and make them feel better. I have no idea how to do that, other than say “good show” even though I know they won’t really believe it.

Anyways, this shit is fun either way.

improvlogos:

Gotta catch em all, Kareman.

dope dope dope

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ucblove:

“Let’s all thank the improv gods for Cory Palmer.”

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Hands down one of the funniest cats in the game. I have enjoyed every move this man has ever made on stage.

everything I love about improv lives inside of Cory’s beard

I can’t like this again BUT I CAN REBLOG IT AGAIN

<3

again

You beautiful angels made my dumb heart explode. RIP me I am a dead person.

DINGDONG CORY’S DEAD

FILLIPE’S ANGER

Fran Gillespi

CARDED CARNY

D’Arcy Carden

Graceland

LandGrace

Hey Pat Baer, I found you something fun and cute.

A group of high school students in Wilcox County High School, GA., are taking a stand against their school’s practice of holding racially-segregated proms by organizing the first-ever integrated prom in the school’s history.

WHAT? There are still schools in this country that practice segregation??? How? I just don’t understand this world/nation/need for white women in my life.