Improv "can help you scire a date, or land a job"
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Seriously, though, I had been using improv as a fun way to flirt before I ever knew what improv was. I'd say some false thing (either totally ridiculous or just a little slanted), justify it, then support and heighten it with additional beats throughout the rest of the conversation. If it starts out as ridiculous the girl is in on the joke immediately, but if it starts out normal and becomes ridiculous, the joke is on her when she finally realizes you're making things up. Either way it's a lot of fun, and later when I started taking improv classes I realized I'd been practicing it for years already in a different form. I'm sure a lot of other people had the same experience.
Why pie? Why blueberry? What is your relationship to the pie? What does the pie say about you? If blueberry pie, then what? Why the pie today?
I followed Wengert's example and brought a knife to my last date. Didn't seem to help.
Her: "Oh my god, you have a knife!"
Me: "Yes, I have a knife. AND that dress looks great on you."
Her: "Why do you have a knife?!"
Me: "Sigh."
Her scene work was so bad.
I followed Wengert's example and brought a knife to my last date. Didn't seem to help.
Her: "Oh my god, you have a knife!"
Me: "Yes, I have a knife. AND that dress looks great on you."
Her: "Why do you have a knife?!"
Me: "Sigh."
Her scene work was so bad.
Improv can help you get a date.
It starts with being confident about anything you are doing, and obviously knowing what you are doing in the first place.
Second, once you know what's happening, just keep listening and follow your gut. Don't say "no" to any gifts.
Third, don't force anything. As in improv, nobody knows what is going to happen. Just keep moving forwards and see where the night takes you.
It starts with being confident about anything you are doing, and obviously knowing what you are doing in the first place.
Second, once you know what's happening, just keep listening and follow your gut. Don't say "no" to any gifts.
Third, don't force anything. As in improv, nobody knows what is going to happen. Just keep moving forwards and see where the night takes you.
Also, they're talking about action outside the scene! And in the past!
Also, dead air is verboten in acting? Don't tell Buster Keaton!
Also, her real-life examples were crazylady talk! If someone spills out that much information on their first line, run!
Also, men and women have separate golf courses?
Also, run!
Also, dead air is verboten in acting? Don't tell Buster Keaton!
Also, her real-life examples were crazylady talk! If someone spills out that much information on their first line, run!
Also, men and women have separate golf courses?
Also, run!
May I just confess that I consider Mystery a god.
The misogyny and sexism that loams the community is ponderous and conspicuous enough for anyone to sniff at, but the man is fantastic at what he does.
And note that improv and the pickup curriculum have many incongruent ideas. Pickup places emphasis on making yourself look awesome and keeping your (social) scene partner feeling confused emotionally which should lead to attraction if played right.
Improv won't replace pickup artistry anytime soon; they're just too different in mind-set. But I'd love to see improv where every team member tries his damnedest to mindfuck other teammates into feeling insecure. Then, sex.
The misogyny and sexism that loams the community is ponderous and conspicuous enough for anyone to sniff at, but the man is fantastic at what he does.
And note that improv and the pickup curriculum have many incongruent ideas. Pickup places emphasis on making yourself look awesome and keeping your (social) scene partner feeling confused emotionally which should lead to attraction if played right.
Improv won't replace pickup artistry anytime soon; they're just too different in mind-set. But I'd love to see improv where every team member tries his damnedest to mindfuck other teammates into feeling insecure. Then, sex.
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I worked at the B&N at Union Square for a year, and some guy who taught men how to be pick-up artists was in there all the time with his proteges. Saturday nights there would be like, twenty of them.
My favorite attempted pick-up by far:
Guy: Hey, did you go to my high school?
Girl: I don't think so. [looks back at book]
Guy: No, I think you did. Weren't you the girl I called horse-face?
Girl: [pissed] No.
Guy: No, you are. I just wanted to say I'm sorry. Wanna chat for a bit?
. . .
My favorite attempted pick-up by far:
Guy: Hey, did you go to my high school?
Girl: I don't think so. [looks back at book]
Guy: No, I think you did. Weren't you the girl I called horse-face?
Girl: [pissed] No.
Guy: No, you are. I just wanted to say I'm sorry. Wanna chat for a bit?
. . .
I just remembered that one of the pick-up artists in The Game was a proponent of making statements instead of asking questions; it makes a more interesting conversation in a social situation as it does a scene.
The point that we can all agree on: The Game is much better for learning improv than that CNN article is.
Joking aside, I really recommend The Game to anybody. It's a narrative, not a how-to book, so you learn more about the characters that make up the community of pick-up artists than you do about picking up girls.
Bonus: because of the ridiculous binding, old women on the subway will assume you are reading The Holy Bible.
The point that we can all agree on: The Game is much better for learning improv than that CNN article is.
Joking aside, I really recommend The Game to anybody. It's a narrative, not a how-to book, so you learn more about the characters that make up the community of pick-up artists than you do about picking up girls.
Bonus: because of the ridiculous binding, old women on the subway will assume you are reading The Holy Bible.
When I first heard about the Game I thought everyone meant people were playing The Game and I thought that was cool.
And then I heard about girl parka guy at Union Square and all this sillyness about being an asshole and using an insult as your opening line, and I cried.
If you want to actually get a relationship, use honesty and the truth, like in improv. Or failing that, alcohol. Lots of alcohol. I suggest PBR's, the unofficial drink of the informed improv audience.
And then I heard about girl parka guy at Union Square and all this sillyness about being an asshole and using an insult as your opening line, and I cried.
If you want to actually get a relationship, use honesty and the truth, like in improv. Or failing that, alcohol. Lots of alcohol. I suggest PBR's, the unofficial drink of the informed improv audience.