meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
improv4humans with Matt Besser

The Best of Meta Vol. 1

improv4humans with Matt Besser

Matt Besser

Comedy

4.92.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2019

⏱️ 139 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Please enjoy volume one of the all-time best i4h scenes about improv, Matt Besser, Earwolf, and all things meta! This compilation features amazing performances by Tim Meadows, Joe Wengert, John Gemberling, Zach Woods, Colton Dunn, Charlie Sanders, Sean Conroy, Billy Merritt, Paul Rust, Mike Mitchell, Mike Hanford, Dave Ferguson, Dominic Dierkes, Sean Clements, Drag The River, Seth Morris, Jon Gabrus, Ben Schwartz, Gil Ozeri, Mookie Blaiklock, Dan O’Brien, Danielle Schneider, Jessica St. Clair, Lennon Parham, Jason Mantzoukas, Austin Lucas, Jon Snodgrass, Andy Daly, Peter Gwinn, Amanda Sitko, Andy Secunda, Mary Holland, Dan Lippert, Molly Bretthauer, and Paul Welsh. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace ( www.squarespace.com/IMPROV code: IMPROV).

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Improved for humans, best of matter, volume one.

0:07.0

Humans, welcome to a very special episode of Improved for Humans, the meta episode, the best of all the meta scenes.

0:15.0

Now what is meta? That means comedy when it gets self-referential, when it gets a little inside baseball,

0:23.0

when the jokes become about not characters, but about me, Matt Besser,

0:28.0

an earwolf, an improv for humans, the actual show, an imbret, and the interns, and an improv itself,

0:36.0

the form of improv, and all the words we use, and methods, and all our bullshit slang,

0:43.0

and postmodern bullshit, and usually I hate it when I'm coaching our director, I see a meta scene,

0:49.0

I'm like, you're not good enough to do a meta scene, but every once in a while a meta scene will pop its ugly head out and be pretty funny.

0:56.0

So let's enjoy this meta, the best of meta, we got Andy Daley coming out strong, calling out John Mayer,

1:03.0

and one we got a lot of Zach Woods in this episode, a lot of Ben Schwartz, I put him in a confrontation corner,

1:10.0

perhaps my favorite one, him in a Don Cheetle, no less. Jessica St. Clair makes an appearance in this volume one, best of meta, and volume two.

1:23.0

Mary Holland doing a hilarious character, which I would call the improv hating girlfriend,

1:29.0

and I think the main lesson that we always seem to learn when we have musical guests on the show is beautiful as the music is,

1:37.0

we can make the improv as ugly. So please enjoy the best of meta, volume one.

1:44.0

Your one word suggestion from Twitter featuring Tim Meadows, Joe Wengerton, John Denvering.

1:56.0

Okay, let's go back to the Twitter line, Tony Haas 21 says Dildo, thank you Tony.

2:02.0

Dildo, don't forget about Dildo. I have no Dildo stories.

2:08.0

I do have a short Dildo story.

2:13.0

Wouldn't that be more of a butt plug?

2:16.0

Stop it. That offends me. It goes too far too soon.

2:21.0

I just told you that story. Just pulled that out of your butt.

2:26.0

I used to do that character, or a character called Little Donny. He was the boy who had an enormous penis, which he was not aware of,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Matt Besser, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Matt Besser and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.