I'm more comfortable doing a character than being myself.

Matt Besser

Categorized in : Myself Doing Character Being Myself

People are either funny or they're not, and you can't teach that - but you can teach people to work together to make an idea better.

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Instead of improvisers who want to be funny by themselves, we aim to try and make the scene itself as funny as possible. As a creator, I think that's someone you'd rather work with, whether it's a movie or a sitcom; that kind of methodology is good for collaboration. People want to be with those kinds of performers.

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Mary Holland is really funny.

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I'm more of a sketch guy than a standup.

than sketch more guy

In most specials, the performer's up - not only not surrounded, but up on a stage - and there's a distance between them and the audience, and I think my comedy doesn't work as well in that way.

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