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Improv Comedy Connection

The Improv Comedy Connection podcast explores how to more deeply connect with audiences and co-performers in improv, stand up, sketch, and communication through comedy.

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All Episodes

01:08:28

Holly Mandel

Improv Comedy Connection ·

2019/12/15

Holly Mandel has a diverse career — she is a speaker, inspirer, creative consultant, improviser, director, teacher, writer and entrepreneur. One town isn’t big enough to contain her, so you she splits her time between LA and New York. In this episode, we start with a conversation about improv — including an exploration of character-based improv, which Holly grew up in at the Groundlings and continued in Improvolution in New York and Los Angeles. This episode also goes into Holly’s highly-regarded

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00:58:42

Jules Munns

Improv Comedy Connection ·

2019/12/01

Jules Munns in an improviser, teacher, and co-founder of both Slapdash International (London's longest running festival of improvisation) and The Nursery Theatre in London, UK, and also director of Impromptu Shakespeare. He has performed and taught at festivals across the UK and in countries including the US, Pakistan, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Finland. He also hosts an excellent podcast for the Nursery. In this episode, we discuss the rapid growth of improv in London, various

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00:50:30

Bone Hampton

Improv Comedy Connection ·

2019/11/17

Our ninth episode is our first with someone from outside of improv. Bone Hampton joins Whit to discuss comedy more broadly, and his experience and approach to stand up comedy. There are a number of insights that Bone shares that are applicable to any performer, and he also shares some great career advice along the way. Bone was on Season 13 of America's Got Talent, a recurring guest on The View, and has many other comedy credits on his resume along with roles in film, including in All About Steve

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00:47:50

Laura Hall

Improv Comedy Connection ·

2019/11/03

Episode web page Laura Hall is someone who improvisers, in the US anyway, will all know. She’s been a consistent and amazing presence as an improvising musician on Whose Line is it Anyway? in the US right from the start of the series. But Whose Line wasn’t her first gig, and it’s not all she does. In Episode 8, Laura shares more of that story, about music and improv, and so much more. You can find a lot of information about Laura at laurahall.com, including information about the workshops see and

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00:46:32

Will Hines

Improv Comedy Connection ·

2019/10/20

Episode 7 of the Improv Comedy Connection features Will Hines! Will has been improvising with the UCB since 1999, where he started with them in New York. He's now in LA, and performs, teaches and coaches improv with the UCB in LA while also acting, writing, and doing a lot of other things as well. Recently, along with Billy Merritt who was on epsiode 2, Will released the book Pirate Robot Ninja - An Improv Fable -- a very different book from his highly regarded How to Be the Greatest Improviser on

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00:54:54

Neil Mullarkey

Improv Comedy Connection ·

2019/10/06

In Episode 6, Season 1, Whit chats with Neil Mullarkey of the Comedy Store Players in London. Neil shares the story of starting what has become the longest running comedy show with the same cast along with Mike Myers and others. Since 1985, their team has performed with a remarkably consistent team of six improvisers at the same location with pretty much the same lineup of short-form games. In addition, Neil and Whit discuss corporate training and using improv to improve interpersonal communication,

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00:53:35

Paul Vaillancourt

Improv Comedy Connection ·

2019/09/22

Episode 5 of the Improv Comedy Connection features Paul Vaillancourt! Paul’s been improvising since college and grew up in the artform at a really interesting time in Chicago before moving to LA to co-found iO West. He’s an author of the book the Triangle of the Scene and has a rich catalog of tips on improv on YouTube. In other words, Paul has tons of content that he’s produced that can help you grow in improv and you should take advantage of all of them! The conversation in this episode covers a

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00:43:19

Morgan Phillips

Improv Comedy Connection ·

2019/09/09

Morgan Phillips joins us for this, our fourth episode. Morgan is based out of New York and performs and teaches with the UCB there. He’s been an improviser for 25 years, and to celebrate, he has started a new project called Not A Bit Comedy Theater. In this episode, Morgan shares thoughts about what makes for good improv, as well as how growth as an improviser changes after you’re in it for a long while. You can find Morgan at: Twitter: @Morgan YouTube: @morgannormal Web: www.morganphillips.com His

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00:38:18

Nnamdi Ngwe

Improv Comedy Connection ·

2019/09/01

Nnamdi Ngwe is an actor, model, improvisor, teacher, and writer. He studied and teaches at iO Theater and The Second City and was recently awarded teacher of the year at iO Theater. He and his twin brother and writing partner, Amechi, wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed show Julius which earned him a trip to the New York Television Festival and a nomination for Best Screenplay at the Best Of The Midwest Film Awards among others. Along with the rest of the cast of 3Peat, Nnamdi co-wrote and

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00:46:11

Billy Merritt

Improv Comedy Connection ·

2019/09/01

Billy Merritt, along with Will Hines, came out with a book called Pirate Robot Ninja: An Improv Fable. The book expands and explains a theory that Billy developed in his teaching that improvisers are either naturally Pirates (driven more by the right brain/emotion) or Robots (driven more by the left brain/logic and facts) — with the Ninja one who was able to access either tendency when needed in the moment. It’s much more, though, than a discussion of that topic. In fact, it’s almost an improv

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00:49:32

Andel Sudik

Improv Comedy Connection ·

2019/09/01

Our very first episode of Improv Comedy Connection features Andel Sudik! Andel is an improviser and actor out of LA and Chicago, and also does sketch comedy. She’s a sought after teacher of improv and sketch, and you can find her giving workshops all over the world. She got her start at iO before getting cast with Second City’s touring company and then for one of their stages, but also spent time in Amsterdam with Boom Chicago. She’s had an interesting journey along the way – more than can fit into

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