Reggie Watts

I'm like, well, they're kind of both the same thing.

For me, it's just being playful.

You know, I'm always playing with reality, you know, playing with friends and joking and reformatting things and calling things not what they're supposed to be called.

And, you know, it's just all my life, you know, I pretend I live on a starship because we do live on a starship.

But like, you know, it's the playful nature of things.

So for me, like getting on stage is not really, or performing or whatever it is, or even recording, I'm not really thinking of it as...

now i'm doing this you know it's it's like now is it is more of attention on what i'm doing but it's not really it's like you know someone shines a light on what i'm already doing you know in a sense um and obviously changes a little bit because i know i'm on stage but like uh yeah the yeah it's weird it's like it's all um

Yeah, I just see it from the same thing.

Like I used to describe like creativity, like friends would be like, I want to do dance, but I'm also into painting.

And, you know, I'm like, well, why would you why would you choose between them?

You know, it's like you're the creative entity with a bunch of creative tools all around you and you can rotate to any tool set, grab them and start painting.

fucking with them you know like it doesn't but you're the center of it you're not like i'm only good at this and i'm only good at that it's like you are a creative individual and certain tools resonate with you and certain tools don't you know i'm certain tools that don't might in the future but if you view yourself as the center of it then you increase the likelihood of having access to more tools yeah

life through the philosophy of improv i'm curious how yeah what your thoughts are on like how improv has changed your philosophy and the way you approach living i mean yeah it's it's it's kind of everything you know improv is like because i started realizing like even you know the way you're going to get up from a chair or you know the you know you like deciding to like go over and turn on a light switch or pick up a pencil or a pen or something like that like

It's all improvisation at the end of the day, even though you've done it a million times.

It's like your body, no matter how conscious of it you are or not, it's like you are still... Because we're living in time and time moves forward and everything's different, even though it has the appearance of doing the same thing daily, it's never the same because time has changed.

So for me, I...

improvisation is happening all the time so so it means that any time i'm doing anything i can choose how i'm going to go about it you know whether it's opening the my car the door handle you know like oh maybe i'm gonna open it with my other hand or i'll try getting into the car a different way or i'll try grabbing this can in a weird way or you know i'm gonna throw this pencil in the air and then i'm gonna try to catch it behind my back and then i'm gonna start writing my thing you know whatever it is everything turns into a game at that point and um and in doing so like

it just increases the fantasticness of life and harder to get down that way.

Like, like, like, I mean, truly down, like where you really believe you have limited options and things like that.

Yeah, yeah.