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Jeff Hiller

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381 total appearances

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

And I went and I was impressed.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

So good at it.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

I was good at it right away.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

And I loved being good at something.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

And I wanted to do nothing but that because I had missed performing so much in the three years I was living in Denver, working in social work.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

And I just loved performing.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

And I loved the immediacy of the laugh from the audience.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

And especially with improv, you can

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

you can kind of tailor your show to the audience, which, which can be, that can be bad.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

You, you don't want to like, you don't want to just go dirty because you think the audience will scream at being dirty, but it is sort of a conversation about what they, what this particular group of people is interested in.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

And so I, I've become really good at being, um, in dialogue with an audience and finding what they like and, um,

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

And then it becomes a part of the improv show, the audience.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

It's not just the two scene partners doing a scene and finding where to go.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

It's also the audience too.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

And I think that's, I still do improv today, even though I don't necessarily have a lot of time for it, but it's just, it feeds me.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

Maybe my percentage is a little bit off, but it's true.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

Yeah, that's fair.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

You know...

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

It is an imperfect art form.

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Jeff Hiller’s Big Break Came In His 40s

And, you know, I also, whenever people are like, I want to come see your improv show, I always say like, oh, it's okay.