Improv Games Quotes

To me, if people really want to improvise, get into classes and learn.

In 2002, I was taking an improv class because, as a white male with glasses who was born between 1978 and 1994, it's legally required that I take at least one improv class in my life.

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

In Miami, I was studying improv as well as acting. Improv is a great tool to have, just for the comedic timing that you get. When I moved to L.A., I started taking classes with The Groundlings, and I loved it. I'm definitely in love with improv and comedy.

Honestly, my biggest education regarding improv comedy actually came on the job working for 'My Boys.'

The hardest part about improv is getting the audience to relax and enjoy themselves, because most improv is not very good, and the audience is nervous for the performers the whole time. Not that they don't even like the show, but they feel bad for the performers.

When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.

The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's not funny. You can succeed in doing all the things you're supposed to do - be truthful to scene - and if it's not funny, I'm telling you that no one's gonna care.

I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment.

Generally, I've found that a heckler in an improv audience is just enjoying the show so much that they want to be in it.

I've always loved improvised movies like Christopher Guest and the 'Spinal Tap' era of comedy.

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.

I do an improv show on Sunday where we have a class, and then afterwards we go and do a live performance in front of an audience.

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

I am obsessed with improv.

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

I think not every improviser is a good stage actor. Certainly not every stage actor is a good improviser.

I took one class at Second City called Improv for Actors, and that was it, and that was only because my agent told me I had to.

I think the best thing I ever did was, years before I got the 'Late Night' show, when I first got out to Los Angeles to be a television writer, the first thing I did was I signed up to take improvisational classes... And I studied that for years, and I really loved it.

I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable.

Comedy did a lot of things for me. I mean, 'SNL'? Not too bad. Not too shabby with this comedy thing. I have really worked on my comedy and really upped it some notches.

I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.

When I first did 'Best in Show,' I had never done any improvisation.