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The Upgrade by Lifehacker

How to Use Improv to Change Your Life, With Ed Herbstman & Hannah Chase

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

Lifehacker

Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6688 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Upgrade we're discussing how you can apply the principles of improvisational comedy to your life and work. Improv laid the foundation for many of our favorite comedy stars but it's more than just silly theater games. On this episode we're talking with Ed Herbstman, co-founder of the Magnet Theater and Hannah Chase, an improv teacher and performer, about how the lessons of improv apply to life itself. You can find the show notes and all episodes at http://lifehacker.com/theshow See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:10.3

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1:11.6

editor-in-chief of Life Hacker. And I'm Andy Oarn, an editor with the site.

1:15.8

So, Andy, how are we going to transform people's lives this week?

1:19.5

Well, this week we're talking about improv as an improv comedy. And I know a lot of people

1:24.7

might not see exactly how improv comedy would appeal or apply to their own life if they're not, you know, theatrical people are necessarily into comedy.

1:35.0

But improv actually has a lot of ideas that people can use in their everyday life, right?

1:40.3

There are a lot of tactics that you can use that don't have anything to do with being funny and don't have anything to do with being in the theater.

1:47.0

So I have an ungood authority that you have a secret improv pass, Andy.

1:52.0

Well, that is true a little bit.

1:55.0

I'm not an experienced veteran of improv or anything, but I did do one class at the upright Citizens Brigade in L.A.

2:04.0

And I had a good time. It was surprisingly not horrific because I'm not really the kind of person

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