In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh at you. Don't try to win.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children.

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

I think my brain is much more intelligent than I am...so I tend to trust it.

Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. Many 'well-adjusted' adults are bitter, uncreative, frightened, unimaginative, and rather hostile people. Instead of assuming they were born that way, or that that's what being an adult entails, we might consider them as people damaged by their education and upbringing.

Don't come on to be funny - come on to solve problems.

Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.