Jeff Hiller
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Don't worry about it.
Because there are people who really love improv and, you know, it's sort of like jazz or something where it's like.
All of what you just said is completely true.
There are people, yeah, you know, those jazz heads that still love hearing all of that.
And yes, there are people, I think sometimes it is, certainly for me, I much prefer performing it than watching it.
But sometimes you can watch it and it becomes transcendent in a way that no other art form can.
ever can because it is happening in the moment.
And when you see a group of people all in the same mind and they find these things together, you're not only laughing, you are on the verge of tears.
But I say that, and that is the thing that is for sure less than 1% of happening.
It's happened, you know, I've been doing improv for 25 years, and it's maybe happened twice, maybe three times.
So it's, yeah, it's an imperfect art form.
Abby Jacobson and Alana Glazer from Broad City.
And some people who weren't necessarily my students but who I was peers with or like I would coach their improv group, like –
Aubrey Plaza, Donald Glover, Darcy Carden, Ellie Kemper.
I was on a team with Bobby Moynihan.
So, yeah, lots of people.
I never was like, they don't deserve it.
I truly wasn't like that.