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I want my comedy to be the things nobody else talks about. Not necessarily things people don’t want to talk about, but just things that everybody else missed. That’s what I like.
Judd Apatow • Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
The dream of course is that one day narrative jailbreaking works in an irl conversation too. So if we’re chatting and I ask you how your day has been and then ask you why you just manifested a portal to the reality onion-skinned just outside this one, right between us, hanging iridescent in the air, there look I’m reaching through it, what do I see... See more
Narrative jailbreaking for fun and profit
Jim Goad is the Godfather of the New Right.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Michael Brooks Jr.
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Chicago also has more improv than any city in the world.
Bill Arnett • The Complete Improviser: Concepts, Techniques, and Exercises for Long Form Improvisation
Both Are True
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SCTV was a sketch show from Canada. It was not done in front of a live audience; everything was shot on tape. (The Ben Stiller Show was heavily influenced by SCTV. Ben and I used to say, “We’re like SCTV if they’d had money to work with.”) The cast was epic—John Candy, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Catherine O’Hara—but the person who made me laugh th
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