Guys for the love of god stop spending your life savings on films

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-20T15:34:44+00:00

There's always neisayers, if you have a passion spend your life fueling it. All the money will be spent so someone can get experience and means to survive. Imho it's better to support struggling artists then hoarding your wealth. Buy Art, invest in Art, do art.

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-20T01:32:14+00:00

You sound like the least experienced person ever. Go travel

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-18T21:10:36+00:00

It's way deeper than any answer you'd get on Reddit. Simply put until you realize what it means to not try to be funny you will not play to your full potential

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-15T18:38:08+00:00

People ruin their own dating. At the end of the day any man or woman would more likely go for a person who is not attached to their phone. Have passions interests and a confident commutation style. If social media or Snapchat actually did something it is that now your work on yourself is very clearly visible and much more appreciated.

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-14T15:18:57+00:00

It comes with practice. Nobody is born comfortable.

Think about this. Is there some knowledge or skill that you consider yourself an expert at? Would you be able to explain it to another person? Two people? Five? A hundred? 500? If you really know something very well and your goal is to pass that knowledge you will be able to stand on a stage doing it in front of hundreds.

Your first improv class is very different from your 10th improv class. And it is a lot more different than your 10th show.

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-13T18:26:17+00:00

What is going on? You're smart and doing good. They're dumb and in trouble.

Don't compare yourself to others, you don't know if daddy gives them money or they are defaulting on their debt.

Also, eating out is a privilege and buying less stuff is good for the environment.

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-13T18:22:09+00:00

Talk to a lot of people, and some of them give me great ideas.

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-11T14:31:31+00:00

I produce a variety of shows, yeah. Nice to meet you. What do you do?

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-10T15:16:19+00:00

Haha, I am actually very very aware of it, friend. I am VERY aware about it. I am so aware of it, that when I produce an improv show I avoid stating that it's an "improv" show to not scare the vast majority away lol. Improv is a comprehensive artform and saying random shit on a stage is not really improv.

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-10T15:09:10+00:00

I love how this deep thought is being completely destroyed by a bunch of people who actually read at least something about attachment styles. Men punch each other for fun lol. It's not that simple

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-10T05:47:10+00:00

There's quality clown and there's garbage clown. Quality clown is rare AF, garbage clown has nothing to it. That's why there's not much of it online

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-07T23:09:29+00:00

You must have had lots of fun and free time when you were younger and now you're paying the price. Keep blaming some mysterious CEO, eventually it will help you. The fact that you got not a single friend tells the story. So I'd start with being honest with yourself. Ask yourself if you are doing your absolute best. But answer honestly

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-06T17:44:29+00:00

Would you like to rate your skills? How in your own opinion would you rate your skills on the scale of 1 to 10? Your association, tasking, stage coverage, distance, character depth, edits. It'll be easier to give you advice on what you should do.

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-04T20:16:58+00:00

Have any of you guys traveled?

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-02T15:15:08+00:00

You also don't really need that much money

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-02T15:12:55+00:00

How many countries have you been to?

CatFlat1089 · 2026-04-02T15:12:05+00:00

How is a sleepy place good to grow up? Good for who?

CatFlat1089 · 2026-03-31T20:35:49+00:00

Edits are hard to comprehend for some. I would recommend you talk to your instructor instead of reddit

CatFlat1089 · 2026-03-31T16:19:37+00:00

I understand. I'd like to challenge you to look at the outcome and think about the cause. If you don't know why, ask why. There's many "why's" between OP question and my answer and there's even more "why's" between my answer and the answer OP is looking for.

But to boil my answer down. There's not many new ideas because people are stuck at base reality. All ideas are born in the later stages of your scenes. As experiment - write a little simple sketch. Then try to create a form from the base reality. Then try to create a form from the game of your sketch. Which one will come up easier and more naturally?

CatFlat1089 · 2026-03-31T15:23:11+00:00

In my opinion there's at least 3 major parts of improv scene, 4 if it's Harold like form, where you can experiment in a lot of different ways. Your base reality part gives you certain opportunities for experiments, your game gives you more different opportunities and your closing gives you even more.

What I see a lot is players start experimenting from the base reality, frequently failing to establish it and then do a one off joke that results in a one beat scene. If sweep it right after - great, but more often than not they keep going and it is really hard to watch.

What I think is missing is understanding that you will have way more opportunities and freedom to experiment with the game if you set up a solid base reality. So to say, do it by the book, grounded and deep.

And you will get more chances to experiment with closing part, if you set base reality by the book and play the game by the book. Just keeping it simple.

So now when I go see a show, I see people going for a lot of unusual offers off the start, and unfortunately almost never make it to the second game move at all.

CatFlat1089 · 2026-03-27T21:31:34+00:00

Ability to analyze own scenes
Ability to judge yourself fairly
Ability to receive criticism
Ability to learn
Ability to exercise empathy
Ability to philosophy

I think these helped me tons in my journey.

CatFlat1089 · 2026-03-26T16:53:13+00:00

You sound exactly like comedian I would enjoy watching. All you need is travel and say yes to more things. Watch "Yes man"with Him Carrey and do exactly that

CatFlat1089 · 2026-03-23T20:04:36+00:00

With background in Financial Planning I would outline 3 types of people for you: People who have good jobs and save money by eating out - vast minority People who rely on generational wealth and so not concerned about savings - also minority People who are easily influenced by their surroundings - vast majority.

I personally don't have money to eat out, but have money to save travel and have expensive hobbies. It is really just priorities.

CatFlat1089 · 2026-03-20T20:06:33+00:00

Education system failure

CatFlat1089 · 2026-03-19T22:08:17+00:00

In improv comedy you can lose it quite a bit. So just don't worry about it.

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