What is the point of improvisation?
Not in life. You have to do it in life. Life is pretty much made up of improvisation.
But why would I want to see professional comedians making up jokes as they go along?
Why can't they spend a bit of time perfecting their gags before I have to listen to them? That's what they get paid for, surely?
Why settle for the half-arsed, spur-of-the-moment, hit-or-miss crap? Insist on proper jokes, properly written, and given more than a second's thought!!
Did you ever see the TV show, Ready, Steady Cook?
That's like the cooking version of improvisational comedy. Instead of thinking it out and planning, and practicing a recipe, they throw together whatever comes to hand, in a twenty-minute time-limit.
And then they sell the recipes! Who wants those? I just looked on Amazon, and there are bunches of Ready Steady Cook cookbooks. Seriously, who wants a book of half-arsed, spur-of-the-moment, hit-or-miss recipes, when they could by a book of proper recipes that have been thought out and tested??
Improv. It's all just an excuse to do a half-arsed job! They can't even be arsed to say the whole word, most of the time...
Not in life. You have to do it in life. Life is pretty much made up of improvisation.
But why would I want to see professional comedians making up jokes as they go along?
Why can't they spend a bit of time perfecting their gags before I have to listen to them? That's what they get paid for, surely?
Why settle for the half-arsed, spur-of-the-moment, hit-or-miss crap? Insist on proper jokes, properly written, and given more than a second's thought!!
Did you ever see the TV show, Ready, Steady Cook?
That's like the cooking version of improvisational comedy. Instead of thinking it out and planning, and practicing a recipe, they throw together whatever comes to hand, in a twenty-minute time-limit.
And then they sell the recipes! Who wants those? I just looked on Amazon, and there are bunches of Ready Steady Cook cookbooks. Seriously, who wants a book of half-arsed, spur-of-the-moment, hit-or-miss recipes, when they could by a book of proper recipes that have been thought out and tested??
Improv. It's all just an excuse to do a half-arsed job! They can't even be arsed to say the whole word, most of the time...
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