Tag Archives: Chris Gethard

The Raw Harold, One Last Time

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 – 5:51 pm

Photographs by Melissago
Tonight is the final Rawhide Presents: The Raw Harold at UCB and instead of again giving my break down of last weeks’ show (which was hilarious) and urging you not to miss it (there is nothing more I can do), I thought I would look at a few facets of the show I [...]

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The Raw Harold (Explosion)

Friday, March 14, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Getting on in my improv age, as well as my actual age, I have become less and less impressed in the cookie-cutter Harold. Del, from what I have read, never intended the Harold to be the end all be all in improv forms. It was a blueprint and it was up to the improvisers to [...]

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Balancing Truth and Comedy

Tuesday, September 18, 2007 – 12:45 pm

My current Improv 501 class at UCBNY, taught by Chris Gethard, has been busily working through keeping scenes real and our reactions truthful. Gethard is a huge proponent of keeping scenes as truthful as possible and the more I follow his direction, the more I find my scenes go beyond my abilities as an improviser [...]

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