Reggie Watts
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But after I perform it, then you'll have that.
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But they've been so kind to just trust me and let me come up here and do my thing.
And I guess I wanted to explain a little bit about improvisation in the way that I think of it as I'm doing it, which is improvisation to me is something that some people are very fearful of when they think about going up and just speaking on the fly.
But in actuality, you're doing it all the time.
A conversation that you're having with a friend is improvisation, unless it's scripted and that would be a weird friendship.
But I suppose those do exist.
Improvisation is something that I love very much because it is the center of existence to me.
And for me, that allows me to reformat any situation at any given time.
Because I do think about situations where you might feel imprisoned in some way.
Perhaps you did something strange and it wasn't thought of as very cool, and then you end up in prison.
Um...
You always have your mind, and you can always recontextualize anything at any given time.
And so I think that's how I lead my life.
I like to, you know, there's a scene out of the airplane movie.
I don't know if you guys remember this movie, Airplane, by the Zucker Brothers, right?
There was a moment where one of the air traffic controllers was handed a piece of paper, and the person said, what can you make of this?
And they say, well, I can make a hat, a brooch, a pterodactyl.
And that's how I lead my life.
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