Surprise Visit Into His Lecture
the surprise visit into his lecture on Walt Whitman and the these encouraged me to think that maybe I was funny two whole groups of people who didn't know me and this wonderful professor had no ide
a how his encouragement of me to come and interrupt his class no less was enough to give myself permission to be silly and weird my senior year I would discover a comedy and improv troupe called The Groundlings located on Melrose Avenue thi
s was the theatre company that in school that gave the starts to Laraine Newman Phil Hartman Jon Lovitz pee-wee Herman Conan O'Brien Lisa Kudrow to n
ame a few later it would become my home where I would meet the likes of Chris Kattan Cheri Oteri on a gas tire Chris Parnell Maya Rudolph Will Forte and Kristen Wiig I went to one of their shows during th
e spring semester of my senior year and in act got pulled up onstage during an audience participation sketch I was so afraid and awestruck at what the actors were doing that I didn't utter a word and even in this moment of abject fear and total failure I
found it to be thrilling to be on that stage I then knew I wanted to be a comedic actor so starting in the fall of 1991 for the next three and a half years I was taking classes and performing in various shows at The Groundlings and around Lo
s Angeles I was even trying my hand at that stand-up comedy not great standup mind you but enough material to get myself up in front of strangers I would work the phones to invite all my SC friends to places l
ike Nino's Italian restaurant in Long Beach the San Juan Depot in San Juan Capistrano and the cannery in Newport Beach and those members of my Trojan family would always show up my stand-up act was based m
ostly on material derived from watching old episodes of Star Trek my opening joke was to sing the opening theme to Star Trek Oh thank you not even funny just weird but I didn't care I was just trying to throw as many darts at the
the surprise visit into his lecture on Walt Whitman and the these encouraged me to think that maybe I was funny two whole groups of people who didn't know me and this wonderful professor had no ide
a how his encouragement of me to come and interrupt his class no less was enough to give myself permission to be silly and weird my senior year I would discover a comedy and improv troupe called The Groundlings located on Melrose Avenue thi
s was the theatre company that in school that gave the starts to Laraine Newman Phil Hartman Jon Lovitz pee-wee Herman Conan O'Brien Lisa Kudrow to n
ame a few later it would become my home where I would meet the likes of Chris Kattan Cheri Oteri on a gas tire Chris Parnell Maya Rudolph Will Forte and Kristen Wiig I went to one of their shows during th
e spring semester of my senior year and in act got pulled up onstage during an audience participation sketch I was so afraid and awestruck at what the actors were doing that I didn't utter a word and even in this moment of abject fear and total failure I
found it to be thrilling to be on that stage I then knew I wanted to be a comedic actor so starting in the fall of 1991 for the next three and a half years I was taking classes and performing in various shows at The Groundlings and around Lo
s Angeles I was even trying my hand at that stand-up comedy not great standup mind you but enough material to get myself up in front of strangers I would work the phones to invite all my SC friends to places l
ike Nino's Italian restaurant in Long Beach the San Juan Depot in San Juan Capistrano and the cannery in Newport Beach and those members of my Trojan family would always show up my stand-up act was based m
ostly on material derived from watching old episodes of Star Trek my opening joke was to sing the opening theme to Star Trek Oh thank you not even funny just weird but I didn't care I was just trying to throw as many darts at the
