Rick Andrews

And it's not an activity that I often do, like walking around.

But it's awesome.

Looking at a leaf totally rocks.

And I should stop more and look at a leaf, like,

Thinking about all the 10 things I have to do, I'm kind of missing the thing that is happening.

And in improv, as you're building scenes, that's where a lot of the joy and discovery comes from, that we get to figure out these fun ideas together.

And in life, it feels like when I remind myself to do that, I'm like, actually, I notice stuff.

I notice things that are beautiful or sad or interesting or compelling or funny or whatever it is.

Sometimes doing improv, it's like it's like someone who like gets blackout drunk.

I don't remember what they did.

You're like, if you say so.

I would do that again if I if I did that.

That sounds great.

I think that's part of also what it's like, it feels like kind of meaningful silliness, you know, because it's, it's a collaborative thing, not like a, the kind of like silly jokey thing that feels like unfun is like talking to someone and it's like, they're trying to take everything you say and like be funny, you know, and do a bit and it's, it's kind of intolerable, you know, because it's not really like a genuine engagement with you.

Versus this sense of kind of playfulness where they're there and engaging with you, but they're just seeing the world with a playful eye.

And, you know, pretending to be a gumball sheen that was alive would probably not be very fun if I was doing it with a bunch of people who acted like what I was doing was so lame and stupid.

But you're doing it in this context where everybody else, I'm sure, I don't remember that show, but I'm sure they were all like, this is great.

And they like built around it.

And so it's kind of like you learn over time that like, one, like the confidence and the lack of

Self-criticism, I think, is actually what the audience is engaging with.