Acting is just about the script and the director giving you notes. In improv, it’s more about trusting that the group will carry you. Matt Besser Read Quote
Understanding listening is an epiphany moment for every improviser. At least for me it was. Matt Besser Read Quote
I’d been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought I wasn’t funny. Matt Besser Read Quote
It seems like the real television networks, the amount of people that watch each network is going down and down, and the amount of people that watch each website is going up and up. Matt Besser Read Quote
I do believe if we opened up a comedy theater in a city, that we’re going to be able to teach improv better than whoever’s there already. In general, I think I could say that. Matt Besser Read Quote
I saw Chris Rock do standup before he was famous. I was just a teenager. That will always be special to me. Matt Besser Read Quote
I guess that I was always considered a little too weird for the standup clubs and probably too jokey for doing performance art and those places where those are done. Matt Besser Read Quote
People get recruited from sketch groups and put on ‘Mad TV’ and ‘SNL,’ but those aren’t ensembles, they’re all-star teams. Matt Besser Read Quote