Pippa Evans is an actor, comedian, writer, and the author of "Improv Your Life," available in all good bookshops now.
Pippa is a core member of Olivier Award-winning, West End sensation "Showstopper!
Pippa developed and leads a course entitled Improv Your Life, in which she demonstrates how improv can be applied to everyday living.
Pippa , thank you so much for joining us today.
But Pippa 's just like-- it's like Mike and Michael, you know?
Anjali: Pippa Middledton.
So we are Pippa , Rob.
Who is Pippa ?
But I went by Pippa growing up.
because I mean Pippa certainly isn't the woman that I it was she sort of gave me the idea, but then I started thinking about other people and that I had known.
uh so Pippa is having lunch with her friend
and me oh Pippa it's all so completely up I I've gotten myself into I'm going to be 40 with no man 50 not that it matters but it does I just I just
And my friends still call me Pippa .
the book is always going to be Pippa in the book like that Pippa will never be
she gets this essence of Pippa like what I was saying before about this Essence she really does embody a certain kind of
publisher so here's Moira and pippa 's lunch Moira was late Pippa leaned back
you look so beautiful Moira said scrutinizing pippa 's face what are you doing different it's the indolence said Pippa I wish I could be peaceful and
that I don't dwell on said Pippa what like what happened to Herb's first wife second second he said she was already crazy not that crazy Moira sighed put
marriage is an act of Will said Pippa taking a sip of water I mean I adore herb but the marriage functions because we will it to if you leave love to hold
And I'm ready, Pippa , to open up my life to improv, to bring improv into my heart.
Pippa , there was a section in your book that really spoke to me about taking responsibility for the energy in the room.
Well, Pippa 's my nickname.
YOU GUYS DON'T GET IT WITH YOUR PIPPA .
um sort of a an an acceptance that Pippa has of other people and the world around her and a kind of Grace that she has that's
urging uh and they're meeting at a Moira and Pippa are meeting for lunch at a uh
still alive Moira appeared out of breath kissed Pippa strands of black hair escaping from her ponytail she smelled pleasantly of milk I'm so sorry I'm late
good like you good you seem so beatific Pippa laughed if only you knew knew what
her hands in her head in her hands and sniffed what Pippa put her Palm on moira's shoulder I'm just a rotten apple said
around that one she said you'll see said Pippa amazed at this act of complacent cynicism she was playing when in God's name had she started saying pish tush
So again, it's not just I'm Pippa .
In this moment, I'm Pippa who's doing an interview.
I'm Pippa the great actor, or I'm Pippa the teacher, or I'm-- so what role are we playing when we go into these spaces?
Moira Dulles Moira is a friend of hers and her husband herbs um herb is pippa 's husband pippa 's 50
I was writing and I looked at the clock and don't worry said Pippa I was just relaxing enjoying the art that's a great Buckle she said fingering a sheriff's
Moira wiping the tears off her cheeks I'll never have a normal life Pippa was used to her friends sudden episodes of self- flagellation she always used used
humor to bring her out of her modlin spirals oh come on said Pippa what's normal you mean marriage Moira nodded blowing her nose it's over between Sam
wish I knew how to recognize the right man oh pish tush said Pippa you can't be you can be married to anybody if that's what you're worried about what do you
My team saw that there's some early credits for you in some theater productions where you're listed as Pippa .
also just her her attitude toward the world and yet there's an Essence a sort of essence of Pippa that I think is consistent and I do think that we have
making things that apart from myself and you know again that's one of the reasons I you know love Pippa so much is that she doesn't have that compulsion she is
she's about 35 and she's been going out living with um a writer friend of of Pippa and herbs for quite a long time and herbs a uh a um a sort of legendary
man wearing glasses looking at the menu with distaste he just needs his routines that's all Pippa said I bet if you anticipate his needs before he knows he
It needed to build for a long time so that you feel like you know Pippa and kind of judge her for quite a number of pages and then suddenly the
and the same idea because the film is actually completely different form than the book but I think that Robin R Penn who's playing Pippa actually kind of she
please have um a nice tea the one with um melon in it Moira said to him with involuntary flirtatiousness then she looked back at Pippa tucked a strand of
hair behind her ear girlishly and smiled a dimple indenting her left cheek no wonder she'd been the her father's favorite of seven kids Pippa thought she