This week, Planet Ant Artistic Director, home team member, and former Second City Mainstage cast member Shawn Handlon visits the After Improv Podcast. In Part I of a two-part interview, Shawn talks about his 20 years of improvising, why he changed his last name, growing up with seven siblings, stepping down as vice president of a bank to pursue improv, how “Star Wars” inspired him to write, what it was like living on a cruise ship for almost three years. All this and more: 20 years * Not his given name * The only child * A man of business * Steve and Stephen * The first days of improv * Touching moments * Funkytown * Genital Ben * TourCo * Bad bank breakup * Mad mom, mad dad * Mainstage * Written in the Star * Power battles * Novi * Cruisin’ * Comments or whatever: @tonyaugusty