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Stacey Hallal's avatar

I’ll be the first to stand up and say you are completely off base and out of line. As the founder and 16 year Artistic Director of Curious Comedy in Portland, let me be clear. Short form is in the first half.

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Will Hines's avatar

This is brave of you and I salute you.

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Dakota Lane's avatar

Small Town, Nondescript Southern State

- Learned improv online because no one else in town knows what improv is

- You started an improv theater in your house

- Your improv team has to be 80% Republican to be big enough for a Harold

- Flew to New York for a UCB class, hated the subway, flew home the next day

- Your second cousin is an actual clown

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Dakota Lane's avatar

Alternative title: "Gainesville, Florida"

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Aden Nepom's avatar

Surprising accuracy! Thank you for the giggle!

Now I want more! Austin! SFO! Some teeeny little town I’ve never been to or thought of…

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Sahil's avatar

Do San Francisco!

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Francisco Antillón's avatar

”Entire team capable of streaming the show to Twitch" killed me

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Dave Clapper's avatar

Most of the folks I know in the Seattle scene more closely match the description of the Portland scene.

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Aaron Shore's avatar

Atlanta:

-have you taken a class at dads?

-Wed night jams are a thing

-puppet improv, folks love puppets!

-more jams than classes

-what’s going on at relapse?

-which Friday or Saturday at 8p show does one attend?

-fuck your notes!! (but seriously, you have any notes?)

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Bill Cernansky's avatar

Nothing about clowns? ;-)

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Emily Byrne's avatar

What do you think of Denver?

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Jen deHaan - On YouTube Now's avatar

Identify with closest city. Checks out.

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Diego de los Reyes's avatar

“Seattle” here also fits Austin.

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Stacey's avatar

Definitely some truth to DC! Although the nice thing about the improv scene here is that no one talks about their high-powered day jobs!! Best example: for my (yes, high-powered) day job, I had to go through lists of people working at the White House and note who I had personal connections with. I had no idea until that moment that someone I'd been in class with worked there.

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J. Catherine Traverse's avatar

Yep, nailed why I don't do improv here, lol.

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Matthew Ouellet's avatar

I'm merely a fan of improv, but I'd love to see what your take on Toronto's scene is.

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Chase Roper's avatar

Seattle is exactly right. They also will get their 3 person team booked to headline a stand up show as a favor to a friend and when they are given the light at 5 minutes left, the producer of the show will not know they are wrapping up but it is pretty certain that the three of them climbing into a canoe is not indicative of an kind of "ending" to the "scene."

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Bill Cernansky's avatar

As a Portland improviser for a very long time, with many improv friends in all of these cities, I cannot find any argument with your descriptions, except that I disagree with your claim that it was unfair.

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