4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Comedian Mike Birbiglia's new film Don't Think Twice follows a close-knit improv group that starts to feel the strain when one of its members gets a big break on a hit TV show. Birbiglia tells us what improv and directing have in common, and how he's set out to "hand-deliver" his film to theaters.
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0:00.0 | Here Be Monsters is a show that invites you to explore fear and the unknown. |
0:04.7 | I saw her face change. I saw her see where I pulled my hair out. |
0:10.1 | Psychological warfare was always considered kind of an oddity, something done by freaks. |
0:15.6 | On the count of three, we're literally going to step out of our body. |
0:19.9 | Step out. |
0:21.9 | You can find the new season of Here Be Monsters on August 17th at KCRW.com or wherever you get your podcasts. |
0:30.4 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters and this is the business. |
0:37.4 | It's an unfortunate path to kind of stay focused on getting the same thing that everybody |
0:42.9 | else gets, because the most rewarding things that I've received in this business are things |
0:47.1 | that nobody else really even does. |
0:49.4 | Comedian Mike Berbiglia's first movie, Sleepwalk with Me, focused on his struggle to make it as a stand-up comic. |
0:56.5 | For his new film, Don't Think Twice, he shifts his attention to a close-knit improv troupe and the fallout |
1:01.8 | when one member gets a dream job on a hit TV show. |
1:05.3 | He tells KCRW's Matt Holesman how improv made him a better director. |
1:10.0 | But first on the Hollywood news banter, |
1:12.0 | Warner's tries to end its slump with Suicide Squad. Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW. |
1:23.6 | I am joined by my associate in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. |
1:28.3 | Hello, Matt. |
1:29.3 | Hi, Kim. |
1:30.2 | So, as we record, we don't know the exact number that Suicide Squad will do this weekend. |
1:36.4 | We know it should be really, really big, possibly in excess of 140 million. |
1:40.9 | We're in the middle of it rolling into theaters as we are speaking. |
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