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@jcsharbs: The loveliest, funniest evening of silly, moving scenes! #GravidWater

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A Long-Form Conversation with UCBTLAâs Winslow
This week, Dan Lippert is the guest on the UCB Long-Form Conversations Podcast. (Listen/subscribe here.) Dan is a member of the incredibly silly and talented UCBTLA house team Winslow! Winslow is made up of Dan Lippert, Echo Kellum, Jon Mackey, Justin Michael, Gilli Nissim, Mary Sasson, Drew Tarver, and Mano Agapion (who will also be appearing on UCB Long-Form Conversations later this month).
They started out as a Harold Team in 2011, and moved to their current weekend slot in 2015. You can see Winslow every Friday at 9:30pm in âF*ck, Marry, Killâ at UCB Franklin. (Get tickets here.)
We chatted with some of the members of Winslow about the origins of their team, their unique style, how theyâve changed over time, improv advice for students, people whoâve inspired them, and more. Hereâs what they had to say.
Had any of you worked together previous to Winslow?
Gilli Nissim: I met Dan and Justin when I was a UCSB college improvisor at a festival their school (USC) put on called Fracas. It felt very magical to meet them. They were doing long form when I was still kissing short form improvâs ass.
Mano Agapion: Mary and I met in college doing improv at Dirty South Comedy Theater, often referred to as DSI. Before getting on Harold Night, I was on indie teams with every single member of Winslow...except Echo. I had my callback with Echo and we had a blast together. So I was particularly hooked up.
Dan Lippert: Jon and I were roommates and wrote together as members of the sketch group Big Grande, and Drew, Jon, Justin, and I performed together regularly as members of the indie improv team Guy 5. Nobody knew Echo. Justin Michael: I think a lot of us who met through Fracas ended up pushing each other to try UCB at the same time, so it really helped to have a group of buddiesâat this point, old improv buddies do stuff on Winslow, Bangarang!, Boat, Big Grande, and various Harold & Maude teams. Itâs kinda crazy to have known each other so long, but it made it easier to get on the same page.
What form do you typically use when you perform? Why?
Mary Sasson: We pull premises from an interview about people the audience would want to fuck, marry, or kill. There is no real form, but we try to make sure we have 2 or 3 slower two-person scenes up top so that we donât get crazy too quickly.
Dan Lippert: We found this best serves our style of following crazy shit to its illogical conclusion and also satisfies the Friday night audiences, who are less improv-savvy.
Justin Michael: The most improv-nerdy moves that would kill at Harold Night can get crickets on a Friday, and the most âdonât indulge thatâ tendency will sometimes kill. Itâs been a fun, strange transition. Weâre still striving to do our best improv, but weâre also allowing ourselves to push our group voice.
How has your team evolved since you first began performing together?
Jon Mackey: I think when we started on Harold night, we were honestly bad. But I think every team is pretty bad when they start out; thereâs a long process of finding what your voice as a team is, and even in those first few months our strength was very obvious. We were a team that would throw ourselves on the sword for each other, particularly in our group games. If we were going down, we were going down in a blaze of glory holding hands. This led to some of the most fun group games Iâve been involved in, to this day.
Mano Agapion: I think we started as the fun stupid big improv team on Harold Night. Which is both our strength and weakness. At our best, we are immediately into an idea no matter how stupid. At our worst, we let our excitement get the best of us and weâre in crazy town before weâve earned it. Over the past 5 years, we have made a conscious effort to slow down scenes, ground base realities, and trust simple listening/reacting before we lose our damn minds and blow out the world.
Gilli Nissim: When we were being coached, people started telling us that we were doing things the âWinslowâ way, which usually meant silly and maybe a little chaotic. It was cool to know that we had a style, even if it needed work. Since then I think weâve honed that into a deliberate energy. Or at least I hope.
Justin Michael: I think when we started we fell into our traditional roles on the teamâsome people were more gamey and math-brained, while others swung wildly with jokes and huge characters. The longer weâve done things, the more I think weâve become comfortable with taking on other roles. Also, Drewâs gay now, which was initially tough because the team is very very very homophobic.
Who in the UCB community has inspired or influenced you?
Mary Sasson: Alex Fernie was our first coach and I think he really helped shape Winslow. Heâs so smart but loves weird chaos, and I think that gave us confidence to be smart and very stupid at the same time.
Gilli Nissim: Alex Fernie and Eugene Cordero are the people I quote the most. They are superstar comedians and were so so nice to us when they coached us. If they stuck around after practice to chat, it made us feel like peers and it was fucking tight. With a lot of creative endeavors, itâs important to feel âworthyâ and they definitely did that.
Dan Lippert: Bangarang! and JV/John Velvet set the bar for how patiently focused/silly a Harold could be. When I first started I was obsessed with Convoyâs ability to commit to and explore an idea in creative and surprising ways.
Justin Michael: Honestly, Iâm still fucking blown away by our friendsâhalf the time Iâm doing a show with Winslow I canât help but feel like an audience member because they just make me laugh. Iâm constantly impressed by teams of buddies with strong and unique voices like Big Grande and JV and Bangarang! and The Dragons. Iâm sure part of it is that youâre open to laughing more because theyâre your pals, but they still impress and inspire me to do better in my own shows.
What advice do you have for a student who doesnât understand game?
Dan Lippert: Do enough committed improv in practices and in front of audiences so that you can develop your voice and lock in on what you think is funny about an idea. Itâs hard to find THE GAME; itâs less hard to show an audience what you like and why you like it, and the only way to get comfortable with that is through reps and failure. Donât think about game until after the show. Try to ground your first unusual thing as a relatable behavior and then take it to crazy extremes.
Jon Mackey: I donât really think a student who âdoesnât understand gameâ actually exists. I think we intrinsically understand game, but a lot of students are too distracted by the rules and lose track of their instincts. To me, game is whatâs left in your brain after you clean up the mess of rules that youâve filled your brain with while youâre learning how to do improv.
Gilli Nissim: If you start looking around, game can be something that occurs naturally in conversation or around your friends. If youâre ever thinking, âthatâs SO like Connorââthatâs your friend Connor playing his game, his consistent pattern of behavior.
Mary Sasson: Ask yourself what you think is funny about whatâs happening, and try to keep doing that funny thing. Game is just about whatâs funny, so follow that funny!
Mano Agapion: Listen. React. Build Together. Game is just that simple.
Describe your team in three words.
Dan Lippert: Three Chinese standups.
Mano Agapion: Ass For Days.
Jon Mackey: Mostly decent looking.
Mary Sasson: Crazy, horny, and tall. Our average height is probably 6â2, and weâve been accused of being the horniest Harold team.
Justin Michael: Horny Horny Homophobes.
Gilli Nissim: Horny.
You can follow Winslow on Twitter and Facebook, and be sure to check out the UCB Long-Form Conversations Podcast on Twitter, Facebook, and iTunes.
@stephmorris33: Juneâs #GravidWater. I was psyched to see Paget Brewster make her GW debut, and on top of that, we got a rare (and hysterical) three person scene. Now all we need is another group scene like the one from the #MusicMan from a few years ago...Â
It's my first ever sketch show!!! I've graduated the @ucbtla sketch program and, this, I get a grad show! I'll be debuting my first attempt at scripted comedy for the stage next week, Wednesday, November 29th at 6:30pm at @ucbfranklin ! Tickets are only $5! For more information, follow the link: https://www.facebook.com/events/130323317654991??ti=ia #ucb #comedy #ucbla #ucbcomedy #sketch #funny #sketchshow #ucbfranklin (at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre - Los Angeles)
American Pie #6 is tomorrow night at 10pm. Free show, as always. Audience lottery spots! Come hang & play with us.

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Photos from the June edition of American Pie with Neel Ghosh, James Austin Johnson, Lindsay Adams, Jen Saunderson, Alan Starzinski, Jason Saenz, and improv group Mixed Company!
The next show is on July 10th @ 10pm, free as always. See you there!
The Del Close Marathon lineup for this year has been announced!
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American Pie #5Â
Hot hot lineup next month! Come to the free fun show everybody* is talking about.
June 12, 2017
10pm
FREE
Comedians doing something new for the FIRST time.
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