Yes, Also

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Yes, Also episodes

September 09, 2025 Yes, Also - Angela Giarratana
Angela Giarratana (Smosh, Dropout, UCB) talks about playing your strengths, helping the audience, evolving sketch styles, curing shame, her comedic voice, messing with scene partners, a hot take on improv, the shadow side of live-streaming, YouTube / Smosh / Dropout, comedy algorithms, applying improv to other genres, and more!
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Host: Suzi Barrett
Producer: Ryan Rosenberg
Audio/Video Editor: Brian Kessler
Marketing: Britt Faye
53 min
September 02, 2025 Yes, Also - Lloyd Ahlquist (aka Epic Lloyd)
Lloyd Ahlquist (Epic Rap Battles of History, Mission Improvable) talks about dropping out of college to do improv, learning to flock, setting up improv tour shows, the origin of West Side Comedy Theater, making a great jam, Epic Rap Battles of History, savvy show biz lessons, disaster corporate shows, cracking a room, mind-blowing improv memories, favorite teaching exercises, and more!
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Host: Suzi Barrett
Producer: Ryan Rosenberg
Audio/Video Editor: Brian Kessler
Marketing: Britt Faye
51 min
August 26, 2025 Yes, Also - Jon Mackey
Jon Mackey (Big Grande, The Brett DeMott Show with Buddy) talks about curing sadness with improv, naming teams, helping others be funny, moving and framing, adding fuel to a scene, how improv informs his directing, following your scene partner, his improv mantra, the Rolodex technique, lessons learned from creating an improv podcast, improvising bits during scripted sketches, and more!
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Host: Suzi Barrett
Producer: Ryan Rosenberg
Audio/Video Editor: Brian Kessler
Marketing: Britt Faye
52 min
August 19, 2025 Yes, Also - Christina Anthony
Christina Anthony (Mixed-ish, Second City) talks about her journey through Second City, taking character field trips, changing default assumptions, being an acomplice, her improv pet peeve, adding elements of improv to scripted work, rotating mediums, using music to develop characters, breaking forms, where improv overlaps with TV, Mixed-ish, and more!
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Host: Suzi Barrett
Producer: Ryan Rosenberg
Audio/Video Editor: Brian Kessler
Marketing: Britt Faye
51 min
August 12, 2025 Yes, Also - Asher Perlman
Asher Perlman (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Improvised Shakespeare) talks about performing for non-comedians, embracing intros, balancing art and comedy, noticing when a scene shifts, learning to not plan, funny touring stories, improvised Shakespeare, using prologues, tips for narrative improv, selling cartoons to The New Yorker, finding inspiration, practical brainstorming techniques, a mind-blowing improv moment, and more!
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Host: Suzi Barrett
Producer: Ryan Rosenberg
Audio/Video Editor: Brian Kessler
Marketing: Britt Faye
51 min
August 05, 2025 Yes, Also - Jason Mantzoukas
Jason Mantzoukas (How Did This Get Made, Taskmaster) talks about early inspirations and mind-blowing moves, his POV as a jazz drummer, how to play helpful chaotic characters, moving a show forward, Taskmaster, playing a persona, more satisfying end-of-show connections, losing and winning an audience, stacking patterns, meaty responses, sustaining monoscenes, transformative notes, and MUCH more!
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Host: Suzi Barrett
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Marketing: Britt Faye
1 hr 18 min
July 29, 2025 Yes, Also - Alex Song-Xia
Alex Song-Xia (Dimension 20, Rick and Morty) talks about self-sabotage, how improv and stand-up help each other, facing fears, saying mean things, Dropout / Dimension 20, playing complex morality, showing up in your characters, tools for subversive comedy, Asian AF, moving beyond the house team paradigm, and more!
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49 min
July 22, 2025 Yes, Also - Ryan Archibald
Ryan Archibald (Second City, CMSimprov) talks about an athlete's approach, smallprov, applying short form skills to longform, Boom Chicago, audition and jam survival techniques, Atlanta, his teaching approach, uniting a room, the hardest he's ever broken, the Tulsa improv scene, process vs. results, and more!

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Marketing: Britt Faye
54 min
July 15, 2025 Yes, Also - Paul Scheer
Paul Scheer (The League, How Did This Get Made?) talks about strong first lines, honoring an opening, early UCB shows, safety nets, hooks, playing with Mike Myers, logic guys, his improvised sitcom, bringing back niche, audience interview pointers, his favorite bad movie, marketing tricks, interesting ways to use a space, memorable shows, and more!
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Host: Suzi Barrett
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Marketing: Britt Faye
59 min
July 08, 2025 Yes, Also - Jaime Moyer
Jaime Moyer (Second City Detroit) talks about her start in Detroit, imposter syndrome, killing your internal editor, gift listening, discovering over prescribing, 10,000 hours, honoring impulses, caretaking an audience, highlighting your scene partner, celebrating weird, Planet Ant, handling your lack of references, making characters likable, and more!
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Host: Suzi Barrett
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Marketing: Britt Faye
50 min

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In this love letter to improv comedy, comedian Suzi Barrett deep dives with veteran improvisers about their journeys through improv, discussing the philosophies, theories, tips, lessons, and stories they’ve gathered along the way. If you’re a student of improv, you need this podcast. If you’re a superfan of improv, you’ll love this podcast. New episodes every Tuesday!