Truth in Comedy

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• "Coming here to learn to make people laugh is equally absurd. To assume that making the audience laugh is the goal of improvisation is almost as absurd as assuming that you go to a dojo to learn how to kick somebody's face in. It's just not true! "Still, they laugh. It is a side-effect of attempting to achieve something more beautiful, honest, and truthful, something that has far more to do with the theatre — which puts your attention on what is important about being a human in a community — as opposed to television entertainment, which is designed to take your mind off what is more important about your lives. "It is easy to become deluded by the audience, because they laugh. Don't let them make you buy the lie that what you're doing is for the laughter. Is what we're doing comedy? Probabl... (查看原文)

  张华弥 2018-11-17 00:31:01

• "It's too easy to find ways to disagree. It strikes me that t more interesting thing for the art form — and for the planet — is to look for ways to agree, rather than disagree. At the Improv-Olympic, the principle of agreement is taken even further by the 'Yes, & ...' approach." This is, in fact, a major difference between improv and scripted material. Much of drama is based on conflict, but when a playwright is devising the script, the arguments do more than delay action. Performers like Laurel and Hardy could probably perform the exchange about the wrench as written and have audiences rolling in the aisles because of the familiar interactions of their characters, but during an improv, such bickering only delays the furtherance of action. In the hands of a writer, a disagreement can revea... (查看原文)

  张华弥 2018-11-18 19:40:43

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