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Vic Michaelis Is Asking for One-Word Suggestions in the Club


“The green M&M is looking at me in stunned silence.”

At the time, Upright Citizens Brigade was an accredited institution, so I had to keep “full course loads’” worth of classes for the first year I lived in L.A. Comedy is supposed to be fun, and making videos for people to see without putting studio-quality lighting and sound behind them is a really cool way to see if your ideas resonate with folks. Worst advice would be someone, when I first started doing improv, told me the only way to play characters was by doing different accents, so for my first six months, every show I would be “Guy From New York” and “Southern Mom” and “Vaguely Eastern European Aerobics Instructor.” Honestly, that last one sounds like maybe there’s something there.

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