1. Improv Matt Faragasso and Mr. Grouzes December 20, 2012
**Be sure to write something and put it in the hat**

2. The Plan Why? What? “Group Mind” Acceptance Hierarchy of Comedy
Commitment
Physicality
Using Space/Creating Reality

3. So, why? You’re always doing it Speaking publically
Getting to know people
Thinking on your feet.
It’s ridiculously fun

4. Questions that will not be answered today.
What are the secrets of improv?
It’s improvised. Can’t have secrets.
How can I be funny?
Just have fun and hope that funny happens.
What is the right way to improv?
There are guidelines, but no rules.

5. Improv is
Improv is not
Role playing
Imaginative
Cooperative
Original Material
Awesome
Stand-up Comedy
Scripted
A Contest
Stealing Material
Not awesome

6. Group Mind Listen to each other Whole troupe - same page Confidence
Yourself
Your troupe
Selflessness
No Personal Agenda
Listen to each other

7. Listening
With your ears
With your body (huh?)
Offers

8. NO Acceptance Go with it. Don’t say “No.” “Yes, and…”
Live in the moment.
Go for the story; not the laugh.
Attack and offer NO

9. Bad “-ings”
Blocking
Wimping
Gagging
Steamrolling

10. Hierarchy of Comedy Puns/Wordplay Visual Comedy Riddles Jokes
Slapstick
Sexual Humor
Hierarchy of Comedy
Racial/Biased Humor
Poop Humor

11. The Truth

12. “Failure does not exist.”
Commitment
“Failure does not exist.”

13. Physicality
Stretch
Space
Pantomiming
Actions speak louder
than words

14. Reality Once it is created, do not try to change it.
Story
Atmosphere
Characters
Falls under Commitment

15. Questions

16. Let’s have some fun.