Improv "can help you scire a date, or land a job"

[Books]

CNN.com has an article how "Yes, and.." can improve your life.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/08/12/rs.how.to.think.on.feet/index.html

 

[Books]

Yes, I misspelled score. Don't start hating on me for my bad typing.

 

[mike short]

Did it say who improv can help you score a date with? Because so far, it's not working so well.

 

[joebrian]

If improv helps you get a job, I can't imagine how screwed I would have been without it...

... then again I don't think it said it lands you a good job.

 

[Books]

...and the dating stuff seems to only work for women.

 

[SixSider]

From article on yes..anding:

Actor 1: "I made a blueberry pie."

Actor 2: "Yes, you made a blueberry pie. And you remember the last time we had blueberry pie?"

Actor 1: "Yes, I remember. We took a picnic into the woods, and that's when you said you wanted to join a nudist colony."

Actually this is an example of NOT Anding. Actor asks a question, the jerk. Okay,okay. They And-ed by stating that they had blueberry pie at leastonce in the past. Weak ass move, Actor 2.

 

[Anna.]

What a crappy article. I blame Joe Wengert.

 

[Joey]

It's like my mom took and improv class and emailed her friends with what she learned.

Or rent any Robin Williams movie. Boy, talk about tapping into your intuition! Nobody does it better or has more fun with it.

:nervous:

 

[ruby sneakers]

What a crappy article. I blame Joe Wengert.

yes, AND i blame joe wengert's knife.

 

[natalieshort]

Aw, why so cynical, babies? Yeah, the article's cheesy, but we can probably all agree that improv skillz are useful in other areas of our lives.

Maybe I'm just biased because since I started taking improv I have like three dates a weekend.

(that's a lie.)

 

[paulwielunski]

i stopped reading after, "Life coach".... uugghhhh.
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[Mo Nose]

...and the dating stuff seems to only work for women.

because we're only dating other women?

 

[HairballofDoom]

Does this mean that improv is going to replace "The Game?"

That may be awesome. Seeing a guy try to establish that he is trying to hit on the girl in a cavernous vagina amidst a sea of robot pirates would be awesome.

 

[ChrisCamp]

Improv actors don't think too much before they speak. And, in the experience of those I spoke to, the first, intuitive thought is usually the best anyway. "There's no time to rationalize, no time to weigh the pros and cons of your response," says Mike Ross, a 34-year-old lawyer and a student at the UCB.

This is the kind of thinking that will get a lot of people in trouble! I can see some dude read the article and at his next board meeting try to Yes And something... unfortunately his intuitive response is "Yes those numbers are quite low this quarter. And doody doody mwuah mwuah weeeeep i have to pee pee mommy"

or you know... something kinda like that

 

[chrismck]

yes, AND i blame joe wengert's knife.

Yes you blame Joe Wengert's knife AND do you remember the last time we saw Joe Wengert's knife?

 

[Anna.]

Yes you blame Joe Wengert's knife AND do you remember the last time we saw Joe Wengert's knife?

Yes, I remember. We took a picnic into the woods, and that's when Joe said he wanted you to join a nudist colony. Then he pulled out a knife.

 

[Eugenegue]

I keep on reading the title as "Improv 'can help you sire a date...'". Which I guess it true. It can also help you battle aliens.

 

[benzado]

Does this mean that improv is going to replace "The Game?"

Actually, at one point in that book Neil Strauss mentions that "taking an improv class" is on his self-improvement to-do list, right after learning to ride a motorcycle.

 

[benzado]

Oddly enough, a one night stand is part of what led me to sign up for improv classes in the first place, and doing improv encouraged me to leave my job. So, in my case, it's working backward.

 

[intelligentless]

We should all become pickup artists.

That's it.