Mary Hines
speaker
859 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Mary Hines’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I'm on a personal mission right now of more merriment and joy as a form of like activism and artivism.
Maddie, do you think that some of people's resistance to the wacky free unbridled whimsy that is the energy of clown relates to their own resistances and fears about being seen and vulnerable?
I call it branches of the same tree.
Stand up, improv, voiceover, clowning, like it's all branches of the same tree with a similar root structure.
comedy sports is great.
A hundred percent agree with you.
Yesterday I just started a new round of teaching Second City Improv One online.
And I say this at every first class that I break the misnomer that improvisation is about being funny.
And I say, I love that you said the juice.
I love what you said.
I say that funny is the fruit that grows from a well-nourished tree.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Funny will inevitably come up out of you because we are 97% genetically identical to bonobo monkeys.
We're walking around in our meat suits, fucking everything up.
Please believe the funny will happen.
And what if you allowed it to happen through vulnerability and intimacy?
Mark, I'm curious if any of these things we've said pin any like philosophical ding dings for you.
Ding ding ping.
That makes sense.
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