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improv4humans with Matt Besser

The Last of Us Gets Boston Wrong (w/ Anthony Atamanuik, Jeff Hiller)

improv4humans with Matt Besser

Matt Besser

Comedy, Improv, Comedy Interviews

4.92.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Anthony Atamanuik and Jeff Hiller join Matt Besser for this week’s improv4humans! They’ll perform scenes about the scenery consultant on The Last of Us, nut puns, and hoarding musical equipment during the pandemic. Plus, Stephen A. Smith’s heated on-air exchange, an improv show post-breakup, and revisiting the classic sci-fi series Journey to the Unknown.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:10.2

Improv for humans, with Matt Besser. Based on the suggestions and other sources of inspiration,

0:16.9

Matt and guests will perform fully improvised scenes. Today's episode features

0:22.0

Q1 guests, Anthony Atamnick and Jeff Hiller. Welcome to Improv for humans with Matt Besser,

0:31.1

Anthony Jeff. Welcome back. I haven't had either you guys on in a while, especially Jeff Hiller.

0:37.6

Welcome back, New York City. Thank you. New York. We were just talking about cities.

0:49.0

In that we were talking about, is it last of us or the last of us?

0:57.9

I thought it was last of us. I think it's a long interesting because it started out as a video game.

1:04.2

Yes. But anyway, we were debating how long it takes for nature to take back a city.

1:13.9

Jeff is right. It's the. So Brett has looked it up and is telling us, because Anthony's mad that in

1:23.8

the last of us, that at one point they say 10 miles outside of Boston, it looks like they're

1:31.8

in the middle of the Berkshire space. It looks like they're in Yosemite. I mean,

1:36.8

I have good company. Har master Stephen King also commented on this.

1:45.2

Yeah, he tweeted. He goes, what the fuck are they writing about? He's remained.

1:51.3

He's remained, but he spends a lot of time in Boston going to those red socks games.

1:55.8

Right. Okay. We're pre-production of HBO Max's last of us. There's a huge amount.

2:07.9

There's so much money spent on this show. There's a huge amount of people and they got the sets and

2:13.4

the prop masters and people from different nations are going to have different sets and stuff.

2:20.3

And it's this huge pre-production meeting. And all right, guys, I get it right now in the script.

2:32.1

It says 10 miles outside of Boston. I'm sure they can change that in the editing room, but that's

2:38.8

up to the director and the writers. But we're here to make the set. Okay. Everybody, so let's just

2:44.7

move forward. Just stop talking about how many miles outside of Boston. What we know is what it's

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