Question about pitching funny ideas: you've been doing this a long time. Do you ever find yourself tempted to self-plagiarize? As in, do you ever find yourself re-using a funny premise that you know works? Might not even be on purpose, I just wonder if at some point it becomes inevitable.
Not quite like that, but I definitely have go-tos that show up --- making it that someone has shown up at my office uninvited, or built a statue of themselves or me in their yard, or that moments before the scene started they had just done something crazy. But I rarely like or remember old ideas enough to even WANT to steal them.
I really wish I could get good at step 2, pitching funny ideas, but it's still a mystery to me, I still struggle with it. Most other things about improv make sense, but pitching funny premises feels impossible to me. Other people do it so naturally, and I just don't understand how to get good at this.
Then I wouldn’t worry about it , at least not right now. Just focus on yes anding other people’s ideas, and initiating half ideas, and maybe after some time it will seem simpler.
Question about pitching funny ideas: you've been doing this a long time. Do you ever find yourself tempted to self-plagiarize? As in, do you ever find yourself re-using a funny premise that you know works? Might not even be on purpose, I just wonder if at some point it becomes inevitable.
Not quite like that, but I definitely have go-tos that show up --- making it that someone has shown up at my office uninvited, or built a statue of themselves or me in their yard, or that moments before the scene started they had just done something crazy. But I rarely like or remember old ideas enough to even WANT to steal them.
I really wish I could get good at step 2, pitching funny ideas, but it's still a mystery to me, I still struggle with it. Most other things about improv make sense, but pitching funny premises feels impossible to me. Other people do it so naturally, and I just don't understand how to get good at this.
Then I wouldn’t worry about it , at least not right now. Just focus on yes anding other people’s ideas, and initiating half ideas, and maybe after some time it will seem simpler.
Could you please share a few more examples of good ideas pitched during station 2?