“Del told me a great thing when I first started out at Second City, he was art director. I used to get by winking at the audience in my behavior and making smart jokes. And Del pulled me aside one day, after a show, and said ‘Some day you are going to look into a mirror and say “I’m so cute and I’m only 45 years old.”’ And it sort of sobered me up and taught me there was more than just scoring with the audience, it wasn’t about just getting a laugh. Del taught us the dictive [sic] that if you concentrate on making everyone else around you look good, it makes everybody look good. …which works in life as well as it does on the stage.”
—Harold Ramis at Del Close’s Death Party (via improvoker)
June 2012
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IMPROVISATION: A Moment Embraced: Thoughts on Our Play w/Patti Stiles, Wurzburg 2011 (Part 1) →
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“I’m a Del, You’re a Keith…NOW What Do We DO?”
This question was never spoken out loud, but upon meeting Patti Stiles in Austin, Texas at Out of Bounds Festival 2009, it quickly became obvious to me that I had met a kindred spirit on a mutual Journey and that somehow our fates, and artistic…
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Billy Merritt's Improv Dance Party Pt2: The SWARM and the birth of the Monoscne →
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It is not bragging when I say I’ve forgotten more about Improv then most people know.
It’s more of a statement on years of drinking pot, and not paying attention.
I had forgotten that the Swarm developed a form that is now commonly called the Monoscene. I’d been asked before about it’s origins…
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