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...agency enrolled Benjamin in a sitcom-acting class with people literally just off the bus from Kansas. He had no interest in sitcoms and found "a few of the exercises silly," but even while doing improv skits in his classmates' run-down apartments, Benjamin recognized that acting gave him a different kind of creative freedom. "As a [musician], I have a set image, and no one wants to see me sad or anything. But in acting, you're allowed to be whatever. You can be embarrassed. You get a chance to cry. People expect you to be real...
Kudrow has a different take. "Reality," she says, "is humiliation TV." Humiliation--how much of it a person will take for fame--is the point of The Comeback. Kudrow invented a similar character years ago, when she was in the Groundlings improv group. After Friends, she called Michael Patrick King, recently executive producer of Sex and the City. They decided to put Valerie in the two worlds most treacherous for a 40-year-old actress: reality and sitcoms. "The sitcom world is male-dominated," says King, "and sometimes the target is women...
...Thin Ice Improv Comedy...
...Improv Sing-Along
Spivey’s close family ties might play into unfortunate stereotypes about southerners, but she self-identifies with an American Indian community, can quote Stanley Kubrick, and indulges in improv comedy with the Immediate Gratification Players...