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Summary: Learn how to do stand up comedy with different improvisational games in this free video. Get improve comedy techniques from a comedian.
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Les McGehee Les McGehee is a working, award-winning comedian and improvisation pioneer, who has entertained and trained millions of people throughout the US and the world... read more
LES MCGEHEE: Very often, older improvisors will talk about a four-step process there. You have initiate, further, heighten and explore. Initiate, further, heighten and explore. Well initiate and further are pretty much that process of "yes and" that we talked about in the earlier clip where you take the idea and you help it to go to the direction it's trying to go, that's "yes and". So initiate and further tend to be "yes and". An idea happens, we agree with it, and we move it forward. Then we have heighten, there is a reason it's important. In the scene we just started and maybe they are getting ready for the big game and they have a chance of [INDISCERNIBLE] race or maybe I'm in danger of losing my job. There is some reason why that's the important scene in the movie, so to speak that we pulled out to show everybody, that's the heightening. And then, if you've done all those correctly, you're left with the fourth step which is explore where you get to have a good time play and see what surprises you can find in that scene, something like that.