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improv4humans with Matt Besser

The Milk Carton Kids, Mary Holland, Matt Newell, Seth Morris

improv4humans with Matt Besser

Matt Besser

Comedy

4.92.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2015

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

The Milk Carton Kids: The Musical Element - Singer-songwriters Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan together are The Milk Carton Kids and this week they join Mary Holland, Matt Newell, and Seth Morris for another musical edition of improv4humans with Matt Besser! The Milk Carton Kids play us some select tracks off of their many albums that will inspire scenes about a new dog who learns how to fit in, heaven being much like life on Earth, and the incredible lengths a group of kids go to find out what kind of jean shorts a lady in their neighborhood is wearing. Make sure to get the Upright Citizens Brigade television show season 3 now available on DVD, the UCB Comedy Improv Manual , and pick up The Milk Carton Kids music at www.themilkcartonkids.com !

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0:00.0

Well, welcome to Imran, here man, this is my pastor, that's me, folks,

0:13.1

humans, welcome to another musical improv for humans, first let me introduce the

0:20.0

non-musical elements, the improv elements, element number one, Mary Holland,

0:26.2

welcome to the show, Matt Newell, welcome back to the show,

0:29.9

Seth Morris, welcome back, you're three of my favorite improv elements. I'm gonna

0:37.9

go back and make sure that you don't say that to everybody. You know, I do, I do

0:43.3

in some way or another, say it, but let's be honest, I'll invite like 30

0:47.2

improvisers on this show, so it must be, it must be true, but humans, you also know

0:53.1

that I don't just have a random musical guess on this show and I do get random

0:57.6

guess pushed on me and I say, no, thank you, I want guys that I am a fan of, like the

1:03.4

Mill Carton Kids, Kenneth, Joey, welcome to the show. Thank you. Hello, are we the

1:09.8

musical elements? Yes, you are, you're the musical source of inspiration, you're a

1:15.2

source. Is elements like a specific noun to the improv world? No, I just made that

1:20.6

out, that's why I was hyping on it so much, coming out of my own mouth. This is the

1:26.4

first episode that I've said that the people as elements. Yeah, we do have a lot of

1:31.5

improv lingo, but elements is not one of them, but you know, that's how lingo starts. You

1:36.2

say something, it sounds a little off and you go, you know what, I want to commit to

1:39.5

that and keep saying that. Right. And if people respect you, they start saying it too.

1:44.7

And then it's in a book. UCB improv comedy manual folks, $25 on Amazon. That's not what

1:53.0

we're doing here. We are going to be listening to some songs by the Mill Carton Kids, and

1:58.7

then doing some improv based on those songs. And what was the one we were going to start

2:04.5

with? Memoirs of an own dog. Okay, let's listen. Yeah.

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