Andy Daly, Pamela Murphy, Joel Spence

improv4humans with Matt Besser

Matt Besser

Comedy

4.9 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2015

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Bring Your Dad In Day - Andy Daly, Pamela Murphy, and Joel Spence teach us about manners and the proper way to introduce yourself on this week's improv4humans with Matt Besser! You’ll also hear as they participate in Bring Your Dad In Day, confront a grandfather who loves Gunsmoke, and decide what will the new Hollywood sign look like. Make sure to get the Upright Citizens Brigade television show season 3 now available on DVD, the UCB Comedy Improv Manual , and Dragoon’s new album at dragoongalaxy.bandcamp.com !

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0:00.0	Humans, today's episode of Improv for Humans is brought to you by Squarespace, the all-in-one
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0:17.6	Oh, welcome to Improv for Humans with Matt Besser. That's me. This is Improv for Humans. No humorless
0:34.4	terrorist. Allow today three other humans and myself be improvising over your suggestion. Given to
0:39.5	me, at Matt Besser on Twitter, guys, you're going to see this puttin' of fact. Your suggestions
0:46.1	being turned into comedy gold with Pam Murphy, Joel Spence, and Andy Daley. Welcome, guys.
0:55.6	Welcome to the show. Hello. Clean in. Say hello. Hello. Guys, let's just go old school and just
1:01.3	get some straight-up words right away. Evan says X-ray. Tim, the tool man, Taylor says,
1:10.0	curtsy. Is that even done anymore? Pam? Have a Linus surgery? Who might have Joel and Andy?
1:21.1	Well, I have daughters. I can feel this question. Sometimes the curtsy comes up.
1:28.8	Only when you meet the queen, right? Only when you meet the queen. If you're at a violin recital and
1:33.4	you want to give a special little something, you might have the curtsy. I think you might just
1:36.8	curtsy. It's optional. You can bow or you can curtsy. So you do it to a crowd. You don't do it to
1:41.0	another person like Pam's talking about. I think that's right. Unless it is the queen. I remember at
1:45.3	some point, my education, I'm going to say fifth grade because I remember the teacher
1:50.4	teaching us about manners and the way you introduce people. If you're introducing two people
1:56.8	and one's a woman, one's a man, you address the woman first. You say, Pam, I'd like you to meet
2:04.4	and you don't say, Andy, I'd like you to meet Pam. And you do that with age two. You go to the
2:10.6	older person to the younger person. So it's like you're you're introducing them to the person who
2:15.6	has more status. And he had this whole chart of that you would think is totally subjective,
2:22.7	but it was like the pope was at the top of the pyramid. I've been flagging this up my whole
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