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improv4humans with Matt Besser

98.5 Best of What's Bothering You? Special

improv4humans with Matt Besser

Matt Besser

Comedy

4.92.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2013

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Bonus Cut: Best of What's Bothering You? Special - We’ve gathered some of our favorite What’s Bothering You? segments for this week’s special bonus episode of improv4humans which features an all-star roster of improvisers which includes Eugene Cordero, Pamela Murphy, Billy Merritt, Andy Daly, Stephanie Allynne, Chris Kula, Sean Clements, Neil Campbell, Dominic Dierkes, Amy Poehler, Seth Morris, Joe Hartzler, Lennon Parham, Danielle Schneider, Horatio Sanz, and Brian Huskey. We’ll look back at some of the topics that have been discussed such as the use of Twitter during the Boston marathon tragedy, Oscar Pistorius shooting his girlfriend, and the epidemic of ceiling fan suicides. Attention humans, go out and interview your fellow citizens and find out what is bothering them, then send it to the show so it can be played on an upcoming episode of improv4humans! You can now get the UCB Comedy Improv Manual , Matt Besser’s new comedy album at mattbesser.com , and Dragoon’s new album at dragoongalaxy.bandcamp.com !

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Welcome to Improv for Humans with Matt Besser. Best of What is Fathering You?

0:09.0

Welcome to Improv for Humans. What's Fathering You special with Matt Besser? That's me.

0:18.0

That's right folks. What's Fathering You is perhaps?

0:22.0

My favorite segment on the show I would say I'm addicted to it every week

0:27.0

before the improm for humans taping day. I will be thinking to myself

0:32.0

whatever is bothering me I can't wait to get to that day and get it off my chest as I like to say.

0:39.0

Even when I ask my guests, hey what's bothering you? I'm hoping that they don't have anything bothering them

0:44.0

so I can say what's bothering me. I like this segment why beyond that it's therapy for me.

0:50.0

I think it kind of goes back to what the original improvises were doing back in the 60s

0:56.0

when they first started improv. In Chicago they would go to the audience, what are you thinking about?

1:02.0

Instead of us doing a pretentious Eugene O'Neill play, we're going to go to you the

1:07.0

audience for inspiration. What is on your minds? They didn't shout out. They didn't shout out

1:13.0

bagel and grapes. They shouted out John F. Kennedy. That's what was on their minds.

1:18.0

The war. But yet, comedy somehow came from that.

1:22.0

Proud of you listeners for getting involved. I'm glad we have the case closed

1:27.0

segment. You guys have called up and gotten involved in that and on the forum.

1:31.0

And sometimes people have gotten their feelings hurt when people disagree but that's good.

1:36.0

At least my listeners have an opinion. Aren't a bunch of fucking sheep out there just saying entertain me.

1:42.0

You guys have an opinion. What's bothering me when people don't have an opinion?

1:47.0

So one I wanted to do this show to get together some of our favorite once bothering you

1:52.0

segments. Some I couldn't break out of their shows like some of the case closed, the

1:58.0

T-Bo show, the gun control show, the Jason Collins show, the Hitler T-Pot show, the

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