46: The Dark Side of Improv

While Black

REVOLT

Self-improvement, Education

4.1 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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When was the last time you gave thought to how improv or comedy speaks to the black agenda? If your answer is "I cant recall ever thinking about that" then hit play and listen to two members of the African American Improv Troupe The Dark Side Of The Room chat improv comedy and how they make their mark while continuing to shine light on what it is to be black in America today. Join While Black in its chat with Dark Side of The Room members Kirsten and Chris on a journey into a world you may not think about much but you should. Make sure to follow Dark Side of The Room via their website http://darksidecomedy.com/ Don’t forget get social with While Black IG: WHILE_BLACK; TWITTER @whileblackpc; FB @whileblackpodcast or email: whileblackpodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Improv is getting back to playing like when you were a kid.
0:05.0	Like you guys both have children when like my daughter right now she's about to turn three
0:09.2	and like their imaginations when they start playing if you just go along with them. You know like
0:14.8	You can go all over the place. Exactly. You have no idea where they're gonna go.
0:18.6	Very little. Yeah and so that's like improv. Just go with it like you know my daughter has she'll bring all kinds of stuff and she's like she has a little play kitchen and she's like I'm gonna make you breakfast and she just piles all kinds of stuff in there there's like the TV
0:33.7	remote and like a stuffed animal and she's like that's your breakfast and I'm
0:38.0	like what is it she's like there's pancakes and there's eggs and then there's
0:41.9	cantaloupe and I'm like oh and I can't go that's a TV remote
0:46.0	I just go with it. Yeah. Ooh that's some good canalope those are the eggs. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know, you know, and you just go with it. Go with it. Go with it. Go with it. Go with it. Go with it. Go with it. Go with it. Go with it.
1:12.4	Welcome to W. W. W. W. W. W. A seriously opinionated podcast bringing you the real and raw on anything happening while black.
1:15.0	If black culture is there, we're there.
1:18.0	If you're pissed or empowered, then let's talk about it.
1:22.0	Write with us on this all black everything.
1:27.0	Everybody welcome back to Wild Black. We glad to have you here with us again. You got
1:34.6	Vince with you today. The art is back in the building. Yes.
1:38.3	Today is a good time. Get some laughing, get a little learning in.
1:43.0	Today we are talking about being black in the space of improvisation.
1:48.0	I say that word right, improvisation.
1:50.0	I got it right, got it right.
1:51.0	You said it like a black person.
1:53.0	Improposition.
1:55.0	We are talking about improv today and we have got two dope guests with us and I'm going to do just a little bit of information about
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