Laura Hall
Improv Nerd With Jimmy Carrane
English - September 22, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsComedy comedy culture interview news business health funny science interviews women Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Laura Hall is the musical director of the hit TV show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" She started at Second City in the '80s and she has worked at The Annoyance Theater and i0-Chicago. She has also taught people around the world how to play music for improv shows and has created a wonderful online video course called A Musical Guide To Improv Comedy (laurahall.com). We talk to her about how to improvise a song without rhyming and why Wayne Brady is a musical improv savant. And we also perform some musical improv numbers with her and special guest Rick Hall. If you love musical improv or have always wanted to try it, you are going to love this episode.