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SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins

A Secret Society

SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins

Paul F. Tompkins

Comedy, Improv

4.94.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2015

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Paul F. Tompkins once again welcomes you all to Spontaneanation, and this week he is joined by special guest Jason Ritter ofGravity Falls andHBOs Girls! They chat about Kurt Cobain being Jasons hero growing up, how reading a Choose Your Own Adventure bookcan be stressful, and believing that staring at candles for a long enough time can make you go blind. Paul is then joined by improvisers Craig Cackowski, Amanda Lund and Chris Tallman,to improvise a story set in a secret society meeting. As always, the incredible Eban Schletter scores it all on piano. Its a real Choose Your Own Adventure for your ears!SAVE THESE DATES: SATURDAY, JUNE 6TH, Paul will record a new standup special at the historic Palace Theatre in Downtown L.A. Ticket info soon!The first LIVE Spontaneanation with Paul F. Tompkins with special guests is on May 2nd at Largo at the Coronet! Get tickets at www.largo-la.com !

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ah, welcome. You are most welcome to this place. This place called Spontaneation.

0:12.0

Sometimes I'll do the intro and see the guests frantically go to turn their headphones down.

0:18.0

Because I project from the theater.

0:25.4

Welcome.

0:26.9

Welcome all of you.

0:28.3

Even you.

0:29.8

That's right.

0:31.5

Our feud has ended.

0:34.1

You know, for a long time, I thought maybe I should be the bigger person.

0:39.2

And then I thought, in real life, I'm a smaller person.

0:42.7

This is getting very specific now.

0:44.2

Now, this person that I'm talking about definitely knows of the art.

0:47.3

It's a large person that I had a feud with.

0:50.8

All right.

0:51.5

It was a giant.

0:53.8

Look, my family was starving.

0:56.7

I'm a dumb superstitious peasant.

0:59.1

I really thought this was the way.

1:02.7

Then I got up there in the cloudland, and I just went nuts.

1:10.5

I saw a goose whose body produced a precious metal.

1:17.6

What would you do?

1:20.0

How dare you judge me?

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