One of the things that they try to teach in improv is finding the "truth" in comedy. How be pretend to do things in a very real way and not trying to force anything funny.
It's so hard because we desperately all want to be good already. We copy the things we see and try to make these sorts of silly, you-had-to-be-there moments happen again. Instead of starting with others on the same blank page, you try to make the other person guess what you wrote down.
We all want to be funny immeadiately, but we have to learn that being funny is not the objective, it's the reaction.
I mean, I know all this stuff to be the right way to approach it, but I can't seem to make it work just yet. It's like knowing how to hit a home-run off of any pitch. You can know it in your mind, objectively, how to connect in the right way. But your physical memory is what needs to be informed. Your immeadiate reactions need to be shaped into the "right way" of doing things. Once it clicks, you could never imagine doing it any other way.
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