Chris Duffy
speaker
468 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3d ago
Chris Duffy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, so for people who don't aren't already familiar with your work, I mean, you're too humble to fully brag for yourself.
But I will just say from my perspective, you are truly regarded as like one of the the single greatest improv teachers in the world.
And you have taught everyone from you've taught children.
You've taught senior citizens.
You've taught people in big corporations.
You've taught Ira Glass from This American Life.
You've taught Zoran Mobdani, the mayor of New York, before he was the mayor.
So you've...
You've really like taught this huge range of people and over many, many years.
What do you think the biggest thing that a regular person, someone who is not interested in being a comedy professional gets out of learning improv?
The way that we are talking right now is actually kind of a great illustration of what building the muscles of improvisation have allowed you to do, because we are talking like not around the day that you are moving across continents, but literally like you are doing this interview.
And then in several hours, you will leave for the airport to move from the United States to Europe.
And you seem so.
unbothered by that the fact that we're like talking now and then you're gonna have to leave to the airport and bring your family to an entirely new continent i would be even though i have studied improv too i would be like pouring sweat and so stressed and yet you seem remarkably unstressed about the fact that you're about to do a transcontinental move there i might be like missing a section of my brain you know but i do think that like i taught all my classes yesterday like sunday is a day that i teach and perform and and my classes were like when are you moving and i was like tomorrow and they were all like why are you here
In a lot of ways, it reveals
like a truth that we all know, right?
Which is that you can actually only control the thing in the present moment, right?
Like you only control what you're doing right now.
You've acknowledged the truth that like a lot of us pretend that we don't.
Yeah, well, one of the things that I think is so great about spending time with...
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