Our latest episode is a fascinating deep dive into the practice, politics, and promise of improv comedy. Diana De Pasquale leads you on a tour, talking with four different practitioners of improv on what improv means today, especially to marginalized people. For example, is the famous improv mantra of “Yes And” perhaps in need of revision?

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Diana De Pasquale’s website
Glass City Improv
CNN History of the Sitcom

Interviews

Amy Seham
Whose Improv is it Anyway?
Yes, and…
Bud Light’s new slogan to remove ‘no from your vocabulary’ causes major uproar
Carnivalesque
Blackout Improv
Del Close
Susan Messing

Shari Hazlett
Rachael Mason
Social Justice Improv Project
Roxane Gay, “Jada Pinkett Smith Shouldn’t Have to ‘Take a Joke.’ Neither Should You.”

Deena Nyer Mendlowitz
Mental Illness and Friends
Imposter Theater
"Funnel Cakes Not Included" explores suicidal expression through a comedic lens
John Carroll
Gary Gulman, The Great Depresh
Neal Brennan, 3 Mics
Jenny Slate, Stage Fright
Chris Gethard, Career Suicide
Hannah Gadsby
Taylor Tomlinson
Maria Bamford
Carrie Fisher
Chris Rock Said He Let People 'Walk All Over' Him