Actor, standup and improvisor Sophie Long kind of has two secret lives. In one of them, she learned Impro at the Second City, where Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert got their start. It’s difficult to explain: which means sometimes it’s like having a secret life. It can so hard to know how to talk about it. Or when.

And that’s before we get to Sophie’s other secret life.

Links from this episode: Story night, Fabulous Monster; a bit more on Second City; read the Hyperbole and a Half comic; writer Michelle Law wrote about life at the Second City in the Lifted Brow 25.

Songs in this episode:

Mr Moustafa — Alexandre Desplat
Si Tou Vois Ma Mere — Sidney Bechet
Saturate — The Chemical Brothers 

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