Q1, you are entering an improvised comedy show restricted to humans only. Improved for humans,

with Matt Besser. Based on your suggestions and other sources of inspiration, Matt and guests

will perform fully improvised scenes. Today's episode features human guests. Lauren Lackas,

Antonio Charlene. Welcome to Improved for humans with Matt Besser. Lauren is here. Tony is here. We're

talking about auditioning in the Zoom era, aren't we, Lauren? Yes. Welcome. We are. You're not lying.

So there's a few unique parts about it. One, this is how you have to ask someone else to audition

with you and that's asking a lot of them. Yeah. And the B part of that is you might say, we'll ask

your roommate or ask your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your wife, your husband, but that is very problematic.

Yeah. Well, so I mean, for people who don't have this horrible profession, we would usually drive

an hour to audition for five minutes, which honestly, less sounds amazing right now. Absolutely.

With love. Go drive. Do an audition in person. Know how it went and leave and feel like, okay, I did it.

Even if it was bad, whatever. But now we have to do it at home. You have to get your own background.

You have to get your own lighting. You have to make someone read with you, which I mean, Tony just said

that she does it for a lot of friends, which is really nice because I think that's the hardest thing

is being like, will you do my audition with me? It's so vulnerable and lame.

I like it, but it is a very vulnerable act. And then you like, it's a little peep behind how people

work too of like, all right, going again right away. Or like whatever sort of thing you see them and

not a different light, but just like, oh, interesting. I fast.

I know. But it is like a whole, well, can I ask is someone who doesn't know anything about this

world? Like is the lighting thing almost like a piece is a flare situation? Like it's just you need

light at this point. Now that we're this far into the pandemic and all this stuff, what we were like,

we've done this enough times. If you don't have a ring light, you're fucking yourself. Like, it's

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