I guess I’ve watched the first two episodes of it and I thought it was quite hilarious. It’s not something that I would agree to do today. So it was basically a marathon of improv? We started at 10 in the morning and kept going until midnight. It was a music and dance festival and they asked us to go up and improvise in between bands. I think It was called the Grass Roots Festival. I was in a college improv group and there was a festival. It might be hard to define that, but I think I have a very clear memory of the first time I ever improvised in front of an audience. I had offers of management, and stuff like that, but I could tell that this wasn’t how I was really going to make my mark.ĭo you remember your first “professional” comedy performance? I had early successes in that I had a stage presence, but I did not have material that was really worth saying out loud to rich people. I don’t know if my heart wasn’t fully in it or if I just did not have a great ability for standing onstage speaking as myself. You do standup to reach that goal, but that’s what I was designed to do-and I did that. My goal was to do comedy acting and I think a standup comic was considered cynical. People were in the standup club looking for the next Jerry Seinfeld or whatever to give a big development deal. An agent told me the quickest route to getting seen by people in the industry is to do standup because at that time it was true. My stand-up experience when I first was in New York doing short-form improv. How is it like doing stand-up compared to sketch comedy? They didn’t have a theater then, but from there I started getting bits on Conan, and I dabbled a little bit in stand-up. I was one of the first guys doing shows through their organization. I was there three years before they got there, and they just completely and totally changed the landscape when they arrived in 1996. I started doing all the comedy improv and sketch that I could in New York, and that was before the Upright Citizens Brigade was in New York.
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When I graduated from college, I moved to New York, and started doing improv because I read all about the early Saturday Night Live guys having come through Second City and learning how to improvise so I wanted to get immediately into that. It’s something I kind of always knew that I wanted to do.ĭid you go through any formal sketch comedy training? I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them. I was a very young comedy nerd and even I did sketch comedy in high school and college. I thought of myself-and other people seemed to think of me-as funny from a very young age. I mean, I think I’m one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. How did you get involved in comedy? Did you even want to get involved in comedy? We had the opportunity to chat with Daly about his early years of improv and sketch and how it was like handling a creepy sex doll and being in an orgy. Based on an Australian show by the same name, the experiences in this atypical review show have MacNeil trying everything from stealing to cocaine addiction. The show’s host and life critic, Forrest MacNeil (Daly) reviews life experiences based on audience suggestions. As the title suggests, it’s a show about reviewing things, just not movies or food. But now he’s moving on up and starring in his own show, Review, which premiered on Comedy Central last night. You’ve probably seen Andy Daly on Eastbound and Down and heard him as a guest on a multitude of podcasts including his own The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project.
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