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here's what this scene's about. Here's
what your purpose is in the scene.
>> You're just getting dropped in without
an agenda.
>> And then within a minute action,
>> like literally. And so I'm there. I'm
present with the moment.
>> I've not come up with anything to
prepare.
>> You know,
it strikes me this is a a life skill.
>> Oh. Oh, by the way, if I can even put it
in these terms, life is improvising from
an outline. You make your plans, but
they're not going to be your plans. So,
you have to adapt. You improvise around
what you want to accomplish, what is
happening, what you want in your
relationships,
any kind of relationships, what you want
in the world, you have to adapt. That's
that's really And if you try to control
it,
>> that's what I was talking earlier about.
You got to give it up to God. That's
what the ad adapting is. It's like I'm
just going to here's what I I'm just
going to trust. It's trusting which is a
key part of improv. It's just trusting.
And so I trust.
There you go. What's the number one rule
in improv?
>> Uh uh.
>> What's the number one pro? What's the
worst thing that an that you can do when
you're improvising? The worst thing a
person can do that kills a scene?
>> Deny.
>> Let's talk about that as a life skill.
>> Yeah. Well, yeah. You talk about that
more as a life skill. I've thought about
this.
>> Yeah. Tell me.
>> Oh, Mosha's still here. No, I don't have
anything more for Mosha. That was it.
>> I think everything you guys said
probably
>> it was probably very Yeah, Mosha, just
listen to this. This is all okay. No, I
don't have I don't have more for him.
That's
>> And I had never had anything for Mosha
[laughter] except I was listening to the
rabbi talk to him. He's a very sweet
young man.
Mosha, will you send us an invitation to
the wedding, please? [clears throat]
>> Yeah, I won't be there, but maybe the
rabbi will. All right. Yeah, please do,
pal.
>> Okay. Thank you. Thank you for calling
in. Sorry about that.
>> Thank you very much, Rebby. Thank you
very much.
>> He called you Reb Yasi.
>> Oh, that's yishized it. Yish.
>> Not even. He called it ysi. Okay. Yulus
is the uh
>> the demin. Yeah. Yeah.
>> So, you're going through life.
>> Yeah.
>> God is your improv partner.
>> Yes. He's He's hilarious. Yeah. But you
don't know where it's going, so you're
trying to control it.
>> And he's saying, "Oh, oh, um, he says to
you, uh, I don't know. Uh, we're
gardening right now." And he's like,
"No, we're not. We're in a race car."
>> Oh, see this is But that's what people
do when they try controlling things in
life
>> because they have a good long.
>> So I have been in scenes and watched
scenes where someone will deny and the
minute you deny, now there's only one
way to do it. There's another way of
denying that works and that is there's a
logical path to absurdism.
Not that you're denying the realities.
There's a logical path to absurdism. And
that means you're going to do the scene
in a different way. Not denying what the
person told you, but the person that you
are, the character that you are,
interprets it a certain way. But there
is no no. No. No is a word that can shut
it down. You can't say no. You can't you
can't say no.
>> So God presents you a situation in life.
>> Wasn't what you prepared for. You had
some great lines ready. If he would have
gone in the direction that you knew that
>> if you do that, that is it goes against
improvising. That I've never That's so
brilliant. Look at you. I'm so happy to
be here. God is your improv partner and
you cannot prepare. You just have to be
in the moment.
>> You have an outline.
>> Yeah. You have an outline. Here's
outline's almost hope. Right?
>> You know what I mean? You you
[clears throat] do what you can. Well,
hope is a very um I hope you're feeling
well. And the reason that works is you I
have no control. I have no control. So
hope is a great non-control word because
when people say I hope we can do this
well, you got to still put your best
effort in. Sitting back and hoping is
not going to work. you is I almost find
that in my spirituality with God, I have
to do the best I can with the
information I've been given,
>> right?
>> And do the best I can and then
>> improvise and then
>> Yeah.
>> You have to have a plan.
>> Yeah.
>> Can't not have a plan.
>> No, it just you don't walk up like Larry
David writes an outline,
>> right?
>> But we adjust often.
>> Be ready to let go when you see that
it's taking on its own.
>> Always always
>> let it go. Let it go.
