Bernard Sahlins
Bernard Sahlins
Bernard "Bernie" Sahlinswas an American writer, director and comedian best known as a founder of The Second City improvisational comedy troupe with Paul Sills and Howard Alk in 1959. Sahlins also opened the Second City Theatre in Toronto in 1973...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth20 August 1922
CountryUnited States of America
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I think improvisation is a technique and a tool. I think that even the best of them fail most of the time, and in the end, the audience is not interested in how you got there but in what you're saying. The more clearly and concisely and artistically you say it, the more effective it is.
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If you're talking down to the audience, no matter how brutish it is, they know it and they hate you for it.
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Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.