Word: improvement
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...some point I entered a stand-up comedy contest and was one of the winners, and I did a comic at NYU. That started to make me think, "Wait a minute, maybe it's worth a try..." So I went to Chicago and joined a comedy group there. Took improv classes. Was found by Franken and Davis and hired by SNL in 1985. Did that show 'til 93. Then I did "Conan," which was the best experience of my life, but exhausting, and I quit after a year and a half...
...quick shoot, do you abide strictly by the script or do you allow your actors to improv...
...work, in any film that I do there's always some improv; there's definitely some in this film...
...might have looked like this. Acerbic Seinfeld co-creator Larry David plays himself in a largely improvised series that follows a familiar pattern: David does something insensitive, lands in hot water and so on until we reach a crescendo of comic discomfort. The humor is minutely observed, but the improv reminds you how much nonactor Jerry Seinfeld benefited from comic backup and tight scripts. At his best, though, David can still make you laugh till you squirm...
...really was actually kind of frustrating because clowning is more precise than improv. I enjoy through improv and the other members of the group creating an entire world," Krebs says. "I think I've always been a make-believer or a maker-believe...