Rick Andrews

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TED Talks Daily · Sunday Pick: Why you should try improv comedy (w/ Rick Andrews) | How to Be a Better Human · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

I remember going back to my college improv team, like reunion show.

And there are a bunch of folks there who I had improvised with when I was a freshman and they were seniors.

I really only did improv with them for one year and they were now, this was 10 years after I graduated.

So it was, everybody was full adults and I hadn't seen people yet in a long time.

And it was that thing of like, you kind of expect, oh, it's that person.

Then you're kind of hanging out and you're like, oh, we actually don't know each other that well at all because I haven't talked to you in 10 years.

And then when we did the show, it kind of felt like no time had passed.

Just so weird.

Because it was like, oh, yeah, I actually didn't know these people in this like social way that much.

I wasn't like hanging out with them every weekend necessarily.

But I knew them in this playful way.

The way I knew them is this like language of communication that we have as we're improvising together.

There is that weird kind of connection where you're like, oh, yeah, I just feel like we're like on the same wavelength at this point.

I do think it is helpful in all the ways that we're talking about.

But it's not like you go in the room being like, the entire point of everything we're doing is to be more confident or to be a better doctor or to have friends or whatever.

It's kind of like you learn and grow through the act of like...

trying to develop a craft and like trying to like do this task together.

I think a lot of people I know who I feel like are really, I don't know, I admire or mature in these ways.

I do think like in a weird way, sometimes a lot of them kind of found themselves through the act of doing a thing that wasn't, the purpose of it wasn't to like

fix them or make them something better or whatever.

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