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improv4humans with Matt Besser

Cereal Straw

improv4humans with Matt Besser

Matt Besser

Comedy, Improv, Comedy Interviews

4.92.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Gavin Speiller, Dannah Phirman, and Chad Carter join Matt Besser this week for scenes about a new friend that can’t get acknowledged, a man who won't use any toilet but his own, and the theft of a neighbor’s BarkBox. Plus, a cafe goer demands a cereal straw for his milk, a mobile game gets in the way of a funeral, and a breast-exam rap group takes a closer look at their lyrics.This episode is sponsored by Squarespace (code: IMPROV) and SeatGeek (code: IMPROV).

Transcript

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0:00.0

If someone's not instigating me saying hello to someone that I don't know, I'm not saying hello to that person probably.

0:08.0

I don't know what it would be like at a party.

0:11.0

I have a really hard time. Mike is really good at that.

0:14.0

And I've tried to learn from him. He'll just go, hey, I'm Mike.

0:18.0

What? It's like a magic power.

0:21.0

And they go, oh, hi!

0:23.0

And I just kind of sit there like, oh, no, is that a word?

0:27.0

It's really, it looks easy, but it's very difficult.

0:30.0

Doesn't look easy.

0:31.0

When he does it, it looks very easy for him.

0:34.0

Then you also have to be able to leave a conversation.

0:39.0

It's like, I'm bad at that.

0:41.0

So I don't like saying hello, because then I'll get stuck.

0:44.0

Because then I have that same issue and that awkward sort of like,

0:48.0

I'll ask you another question.

0:51.0

Neither one of us are enjoying this.

0:54.0

I had somebody who like a couple days ago who was like,

0:57.0

someone I've seen around at the Queen's for like six years say,

1:00.0

I don't know if we've ever actually, and I really like that.

1:03.0

You like that?

1:04.0

He was like, I'm Oscar.

1:05.0

I was like, we've seen each other for like, well,

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