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  • Cliques BONUS

    Cliques BONUS
    2022/04/12
    We had so much fun recording our Cliques episode that we couldn’t fit all the conversations in. Here’s a bonus episode with some extra conversations between Laurie and Brian.

    Featuring:
    * A significant but interesting detour about sketch packets
    * Stand-up in rural communities
    * Brian’s experience running a comedy festival and attempting to staff outside his friend network
    * Small market theaters where producers equal friends
    * Introverts in cliques
    * A reflection on how our high school experiences show up today, e.g. are we mean?
    * Indie teams vs house teams
    * Welcoming significant others at comedy after parties

    Support AWHOAWC artists and contributors:
    * Written and recorded by @LaurieBolewitz and @BrianDoesImprov
    * More from us at https://linktr.ee/humancomedians
    * Edited by @BrianDoesImprov
    * Podcast art by josienorton.com
    * Main theme by Neil Newton
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    20 分
  • Money

    Money
    2022/04/05
    In Money, Laurie and Brian explore the old adage, “There is no money in improv”–its truths and the ways it hides or reinforces inequalities. The episode features a fascinating conversation with Mona Thompson and Shara Tonn, improv performers and teachers who built careers in improv tell their stories, offer practical advice, and play a money-themed game called “National Currency or D&D Monster.”

    Featuring:
    * Brian's money journey, making money in his first team, a professional zag, and reflections on privilege
    * Laurie's money journey, college, overseas head school, self taught improv, returning to the US comedy scene, and reflections on privilege
    * Brian's interview with Mona and Shara–
    * Their journey to improv as a full time career
    * Expanding their training, doing a bit at a time (e.g. trying it for a year)
    * Their reflections on privilege
    * Planning and executing a national and an international tour, making their offerings enticing for small market theaters and festivals
    * Practical advice for folks following in their footsteps
    * We play "currency or D&D monster"
    * Follow @msdimprov on Instagram
    * Laurie and Brian debrief after the interview
    * Brian mentions this book’s influence on him: https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-be-an-artist-without-losing-your-mind-your-shirt-or-your-creative-compass-a-practical-guide/9781581573671

    Support AWHOAWC artists and contributors:
    * Written and recorded by @LaurieBolewitz and @BrianDoesImprov
    * More from us at https://linktr.ee/humancomedians
    * Edited by @andy_sell
    * Podcast art by josienorton.com
    * Main theme by Neil Newton

    Includes sound effects:
    * Bell, Candle Damper, A (H1) from InspectorJ (https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/411089/) under an Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
    * Bicycle Horn from AntumDeluge (https://freesound.org/people/AntumDeluge/sounds/188039/) under a Creative Commons 0 License (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
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    1 時間 24 分
  • Cliques

    Cliques
    2022/03/29
    In Cliques, Laurie and Brian explore the “in” groups and “out” groups of comedy, the purposes they serve and the impacts they have on new and long-time performers.

    Featuring:
    * POP QUIZ on our favorite high school movies
    * Tear Down the Boys’ Club that Protected Louis C.K. by Guy Branam: https://www.vulture.com/2017/11/tear-down-the-boys-club-that-protected-louis-ck.html
    * Cliques in various comedy scenes - improv, stand-up, comedy theaters
    * Late Night with Jimmy Fallopian Tubes: https://www.facebook.com/JimmyFallopianTubes
    * PLEASE read Laurie’s Birdbox Conan O’Brien sketch: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Eh36k9CRcZck_qp7QrLJqLnrczbK7Xj_/view?usp=drivesdk
    * How cliques in one sense (who is our audience) affects the sort of comedy that is welcome on stage, which in turn affects who is our audience
    * Tao Comedy Studio in LA: https://taocomedystudio.com
    * Laurie and Brian’s initial clique experiences in school, and the defense mechanisms they developed
    * Laurie and Brian’s specific experiences with, challenges of and triumphs around cliques and community in comedy
    * T.J. Mannix / LimboLand: https://www.facebook.com/LimboLandMusicalImprov/
    * The intersection of welcoming generally and welcoming specifically improvisers from historically marginalized backgrounds

    Sooo much came up during our conversation that we couldn’t fit it all in! There’s a bonus episode with all that extra content, including: sketch packets, rural stand-up, and introverts in cliques. It will be released next week!

    Support AWHOAWC artists and contributors:
    * Written and recorded by Laurie Bolewitz and Brian Gray
    * More from us at https://linktr.ee/humancomedians
    * Edited by Brian Gray
    * Podcast art by Josie Norton
    * Main theme by Neil Newton
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    51 分
  • Dignity, Always Dignity

    Dignity, Always Dignity
    2022/03/22
    Laurie and Brian explore what it means to play at the height of your dignity, and whether dignity is a worthy comedic value.

    Featuring:
    * Bob Odenkirk on playing to the height of your dignity
    * Deconstructing “play to the height of your intelligence”
    * For all the music nerds, here’s more reading on schenkerian analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenkerian_analysis
    * Singing in the Rain, “Dignity, Always Dignity,” slapstick and “low brow” humor that requires a lot of training and practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SND3v0i9uhE
    * The Superiority Theory of Comedy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_humor#Superiority_theory
    * Taking away your own dignity by looking down at your character or the audience
    * When you are anxious, you are more likely to say something sexist or racist
    * Mr. Rogers was offended at kids’ TV shows featuring people getting hit in the face by pies: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/what-would-mister-rogers-do/600772/
    * “Comedy can either help us work through very difficult things or it can help us take our minds off of very difficult things.” -Laurie Bolewitz
    * Dignity and the dangers of self-deprecating humor. “When marginalized people are self-deprecating in comedy, it becomes self-abuse.” -Hannah Gadsby
    * Laughter as a type of physical control, and what it means for white dudes to give up that control to people who don’t look like them

    Support AWHOAWC artists and contributors:
    * Written and recorded by Laurie Bolewitz and Brian Gray
    * More from us at https://linktr.ee/humancomedians
    * Edited by Andy Sell
    * Podcast art by Josie Norton
    * Main theme by Neil Newton
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    42 分
  • Welcome

    Welcome
    2022/03/15
    Hosts Laurie Bolewitz and Brian Gray introduce each other, the show and our Season 1 theme: “Welcome.”

    Featuring:
    * INTERVIEW: Each other!
    * QUIZ: Human or Comedian?
    * Delightful banter

    Support AWHOAWC artists and contributors:
    * Written and recorded by Laurie Bolewitz and Brian Gray
    * More from us at https://linktr.ee/humancomedians
    * Edited by Brian Gray
    * Podcast art by Josie Norton
    * Main theme by Neil Newton
    * Additional music: Danse Macabre - Busy Strings by Kevin MacLeod. Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3591-danse-macabre---busy-strings. License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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    13 分