Snap Studios. Today on Stepan's Nef Judgment, I get to hand you off to comedy mastermind Chris Geuthard.

Chris, he's been on the office in Broad City,

but back in 2010, Chris taught at the UCB Theater

in New York, and he called his class parenthesis and in addition to the class his

students will perform live shows for audiences so talk your knees, feel that low center of gravity, because from Snap Judgment, you're about

to be flipped out.

There are some improv nerds in the world who still ask me about this parentheses class.

A lot of it is because of this one night where this one thing happened and it probably should never

have happened.

Okay, close your eyes and imagine.

You're in a small black box theater underneath a supermarket in downtown Manhattan.

You and the rest of the audience have just paid a few bucks for a ticket and maybe a couple one to see an experimental

improv show. No games, no scenes, no rules, no suggestions from the audience.

Anything goes.

Pretty early into it.

Merv kind of calmly takes the stage and he's got a lot of stage

presence. He really commanded the energy and he just kind of plainly puts it out there.

I tell the audience,

I'm going to try a standing back flip.

I always thought a back flip was like a standing back flip

was a cool thing that looked fun.

Hi, I'm Murf Meyer.

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