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On behalf of Expert Village this is Paul Zuckerman with the cast of Chicago City Limits here
in New York City, and today we're going to you some techniques for improvisational comedy.
There's an expression in show business; If you buy the premise, you'll buy the bit. That
means that whatever we create on stage the audience will accept, but it's a very fragile
reality, especially with improvisers where we're usually with a bare stage. If we break
that reality, we may get a laugh just because we broke the reality, but we’ve lost a certain
continuality with the audience, which is very hard to regain. Let's see what happens when
reality gets broken. I think this the perfect color for this concrete wall. Well, it sure
beats all the graffiti that was all over it before. Yea, I think so too. Hey everybody,
I got some pizza. Who wants some pizza? Alright, thank you. You just walked right through a
wall. You must be like some kind of superhero or something. Oh, I don't know. I just brought
some soda. You want some soda?