Improvisers take risks and make mistakes by definition.
with improvisers ? And improvisers , might I add, that you trust deeply.
Amazing improvisers .
Adam is a great improviser .
And the improviser gets a solo-- gets a chance every time around this cycle to try A different improvisation.
So as a new improviser , it's really easy to trash-talk an idea.
And I am an improviser .
scans of jazz improvisers .
They were the best improvisers .
there so that the improvisers know where it is, and we can play around it, and so on and so forth.
So a lot of improvisers come up with tricks of the trade.
They're using improvisers , using writers to warm up the audience or get people to brainstorm and play games and all that sort of thing.
I call them the improvisers .
We are spontaneous improvisers .
Yeah he was a great organ improviser .
Del Close is a great improviser based out of Second City, which many "Saturday Night Live" castmates have come from.
Because I had been an improviser , and I worked at the Upright Citizens Brigade, I had ended up getting a commercial agent, because I bartended there.
There are different strategies that improvisers could employ.
I'm not saying that improvisers and writers are not trying to, but-- wait, no, that is completely what I'm saying.
Stand-up comedians are better than improvisers and writers because we actually have to come up with it in advance.
And you would pick up different improvisers along the way.
Bach was actually most famous in his lifetime as an improviser .
You're playing a role there as an experienced improviser , trying to sort of rein it in and make it like make sense, maybe.
So the thought here is that you're an improviser .
And I love it because they're just such gifted improvisers , and really we're not teaching my students to beatbox and rap.
in the tradition of the city's great improvisers , Phil Cochran and Viola Spolin.
The show is named after one of the greatest improvisers of the world, John Coltrane.
All master improvisers in comedy.
would be silly for me to not allow these brilliant improvisers to do their thing
And then, when he heard a jazz improviser talking to someone-- he was being interviewed.
Because you don't want to be a jerk to the greatest improviser who ever lived.
Yeah, so I'm actually an improviser as well as somebody here.
This is Caesar, the organizer and improviser .
So the idea here is to try to take this analogy of how a jazz improviser might improvise.
And actually, when we're improvisers , it gives us stuff to use, stuff to work from.
My shows, which were with the beginning improvisers who had just signed up, were a grinding, awful 45 minutes of silence.
And what they would do is they would have a trail of improvisers -- which is like the least sexy phrase ever-- going from a park in the East Village all the way up to the
I'm just realizing it now in this talk that she's kind of a little bit of an improviser .
The thing I always tell students is treat that person as if they're like the greatest improviser who ever lived.
You yourself a master improviser in music.
I've always, always been an improviser .
But I've always been a huge improviser because it makes the ability to kind of--
I mean, I've been an improviser in New York since 2012.
And this way of-- I realize that all of my years trying to be a jazz improviser and playing spontaneously
And I still say, Terrell Suggs is the best football improviser that we've had on the show.
I'm a research scholar at Princeton, and I'm a composer and improviser , and also electrical engineer.
By all accounts, he's one of the great improvisers of all time.
And yeah, just a bunch of different levels of improvisers jamming together on an improv stage.
But what I think that is telling us is we are remarkably good improvisers .
And then, of course, once the computer responds to me, I'm, as an improviser , adjusting what I do in response to it.