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🗓️ 1 August 2012
⏱️ 84 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Improv for Humans with Matt Besser, that's me, this is Improv for Humans. |
0:22.5 | Today three other humans and myself will be improvising on your suggestions given to me |
0:26.7 | at Twitter at Matt Besser actually and we're going to have some YouTube videos we get from |
0:33.3 | our forum on your wall and what else and then we'll do some scenes off there where I'll |
0:39.2 | say hey wait a minute what what are you doing all right folks the best improvisers in the |
0:45.0 | universe Charlie Sanders hi everyone have you seen the movie Barton Fink yeah I love Barton Fink |
0:52.7 | oh really okay so in a nutshell what's Barton Fink about the main point of it I would say |
1:04.8 | this the thesis of Barton Fink is don't sell your soul to the devil |
1:08.4 | okay is there a secondary point um see this is this is probably my problem wrestling movies are |
1:24.3 | cool I got this whole thing out of Barton Fink I don't know if anyone's ever lined up with me |
1:31.6 | I think we've talked about this before have I been searching for someone I thought it was about |
1:37.9 | that so John Goodman's characters in the room next door right and Barton Fink's a writer and he |
1:45.2 | and and John Goodman's character was like a salesman right and he and the first thing we kind of |
1:50.8 | know about the characters he's great storytelling he has all these great stories but he won't |
1:54.5 | shut up and Bart Fink this wants him to shut up so he can be a writer right and at the first |
1:59.6 | top of the movie pretty much yeah so then we find out in actuality he's the most and meanwhile he's |
2:06.8 | writing uh Barton Fink's writing these boring wrestling movies right and eventually finds out |
2:14.4 | he has the most interesting person in the world right next to him the whole time who should have been |
2:20.6 | the center of a store and in fact obviously is because that's what the movie is but to me that's |
2:26.4 | what I took from it was don't be a Barton Fink the there's interesting people all around you don't |
2:34.3 | try to come up with with stories out of the air out of nonsense out of nowhere pull it there's |
2:41.5 | people on your your block you might blow off and I want to talk to or you're running sitting next to |
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