So You Think You're Funny?: A Students' Guide to Improv Comedy
- ISBN-10
- 1566081734
- ISBN-13
- 9781566081733
- Category
- Improvisation (Acting)
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Meriwether Publishing
- Author
- Immediate Gratification Players
Description
Anyone can do improvisational comedy -- all you need is a sense of humor and a touch of fearlessness. The Immediate Gratification Players have been improvising at Harvard University since 1986, and in this book, they show you how to do it, too.
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