American - Actor | September 22, 1967 -
It's almost kind of satisfying when you get direct proof that someone stole your bit. It makes the times you had the paranoid suspicion feel less crazy.
Matt Besser
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I don't think I've ever had a conversation with a comedian who stole except for when it's been in anger.
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I feel like there are a lot of bands or musicians that probably think improv is corny, because I think that's a sentiment out there.
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You're always starting with a nugget of truth, whether it's a song or an improv scene.
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I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.
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I didn't even learn to play guitar until the movie 'Walk Hard,' which is probably fortunate because maybe I would have pursued it, and that would have been a waste of my time.
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Right after college, a buddy of mine was moving to Boulder for some summer program, and he was like, 'Come live with me.' And I figured, why not? I love Colorado.
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People are either funny or they're not, and you can't teach that - but you can teach people to work together to make an idea better.
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Instead of improvisers who want to be funny by themselves, we aim to try and make the scene itself as funny as possible. As a creator, I think that's someone you'd rather work with, whether it's a movie or a sitcom; that kind of methodology is good for collaboration. People want to be with those kinds of performers.
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Mary Holland is really funny.
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In most specials, the performer's up - not only not surrounded, but up on a stage - and there's a distance between them and the audience, and I think my comedy doesn't work as well in that way.
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I never liked the glossiness of highly produced standup specials in general - I like it where it has more of a feel of the type of places I usually perform. It seems kind of weird when you do a special to go perform in a place unlike the place where you perform 95% of the time.
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