Rick Andrews

Because the kinds of things that you all can do as a group, when everyone is playing that way, far, far outpace

what you can do if everybody is out there trying to get their own individual laughs and make themselves look good.

It's like a basketball team where like everybody's shooting the second they get the ball.

It's like, you're not going to play very well.

You need people to like cut and drive and set picks and hustle on defense.

And like, it's funny watching the all-star game in like every sport because it sucks so much.

It's like all the best people and like, they don't know how to play with each other.

So like everyone has like maxed out their skill levels, but like you kind of need some guy who like

doesn't make the all-star salary, whose only job is to just harass people on defense at the free point line or whatever, right?

These pieces all have to fit together in some way.

And in improv, it's not like you have this designated role, but it's kind of like we're all trying to be whatever the show needs that night.

I was just talking to someone about music that, like, pre-internet, any non-commercial genre was hyper-geographically focused.

Like, remember, like, all the grunge bands came out of Seattle, right?

And, like, most of the 80s thrash metal bands were, like, from San Francisco.

I'm a metalhead, so this is most of my, like, knowledge.

But, like, of the, like, top...

10 like seminal 80s death metal bands.

Like all 10 of them are either from Tampa Bay, Florida or Birmingham, England.

It's so random because it's kind of like you could not hear like guttural death metal on the radio.

Like you could only see it at a show or someone played it for you.