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improv4humans with Matt Besser

Mary Holland, Matt Newell, James Mastraieni

improv4humans with Matt Besser

Matt Besser

Comedy

4.92.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2014

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Stinky Sword - FUN FACT: Mary Holland, Matt Newell, and James Mastraieni are all on today's improv4humans with Matt Besser! Tune in to find out what it's like to have incredible luck, what would happen if the President of the United States were elected solely based on their funny name, and the many features of "Southern Siri." Make sure to get the Upright Citizens Brigade television show season 3 now available on DVD, the UCB Comedy Improv Manual , Matt Besser’s new comedy album at mattbesser.com , and Dragoon’s new album at dragoongalaxy.bandcamp.com !

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0:00.0

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0:16.0

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0:30.0

Oh, welcome to Improvert Humans, it's Matt Besser, that's me!

0:41.7

Today, three other humans and myself will be improvising off your suggestions given to me.

0:46.8

Matt Besser on Twitter, guys. You gotta get there. Why go to the beach when you go

0:53.0

at Matt Besser, your suggestions, other sources, one-spire stories, conversations, opinions,

1:00.1

ultimately some comedy gold folks. Mary Hollins here, Matt Newell, James Mastriani, James

1:13.0

new to the show, I said your name right, right? Yeah, you sure did, thanks man.

1:17.0

M-A-S-T-R-A-I-E-N-I. He has three vowels in a row, only rich people can afford that.

1:28.3

Most people ain't get one vowel between consonants, some people have a couple,

1:34.5

but three, unless you're like African, I mean that's crazy. And I'm not African, not by a long shot.

1:46.5

So that's Italian, and still a lot of vowels, A-I-E.

1:52.6

Yeah, you could handle that sound just with an I.

1:56.8

Like why do we need the A-I-E?

1:58.8

Yeah, when my grandparents came over, they misspelled, they couldn't read or write, and so they just

2:06.2

pronounced the name to whoever takes names and they just wrote it however it sounded.

2:12.4

Well, exactly. It sounds just an I there, so how's it?

2:18.8

Mastriani.

2:24.7

Did I cut you off though? Are you saying there's something else?

2:27.5

The actual spelling has an O and two ends in it.

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