Matt Besser Quotes

I like musicals that are sometimes comedic, but I haven‘t even seen the Monty Python musical, and I’m a huge Monty Python fan.

Improv acting is not just saying the lines but connecting with the other actor.

When I came to Chicago, I didn’t even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn’t know what the word ‘improvisation’ meant.

I grew up in the ’80s, when breaking was cool, and then it got corny in the ’90s, and it became cool again with all these choreographed B-Boy dance crews.

I’ll probably never stop improvising.

The most difficult thing to pull off in a musical is the choreography.

There’s something about the Razorbacks that’s unique to Arkansas – I don’t know how many states have just one team that the entire state coalesces around. We don’t have a pro team, so everybody‘s into the Razorbacks. Everybody’s watching the Razorbacks on Saturday.

There’s nothing more pathetic than listening to a football game over the Internet, but I’ve done that.

It seems like the real television networks, the amount of people that watch each network is going down and down, and the amount of people that watch each website is going up and up.

I don’t think I’ve ever had a conversation with a comedian who stole except for when it’s been in anger.

Acting is just about the script and the director giving you notes. In improv, it’s more about trusting that the group will carry you.

The one thing that’s depressing as a comedian to realize is that rock stars get groupies, and comedians don’t.

Lou Holtz, I was also a huge fan of. He was really funny. I think that’s a big part of why I was attracted to the Razorbacks: I thought Lou Holtz was really funny. He is really funny. Too bad he‘s a born-again, or whatever.

I do believe if we opened up a comedy theater in a city, that we’re going to be able to teach improv better than whoever‘s there already. In general, I think I could say that.

I can’t stand USC. They get such media attention.

I got really depressed when Sidney Moncrief lost to Larry Bird. That really depressed me.

We all hate those stories that end with ‘And that’s the story.’

So many comedians, if you asked them, ‘What’s your priority in standup?’ it’s probably gonna be to make people laugh or to entertain them. That is just way down on my priority list, if on my list at all. I’m into breaking records. If I can do a set and break a record and get no laughs, I’m happy.

Right after college, a buddy of mine was moving to Boulder for some summer program, and he was like, ‘Come live with me.’ And I figured, why not? I love Colorado.

Many improv groups give off the same positive annoying vibe that I associate with Christian Young Life groups with shows that more resemble children playing than a comedy performance.

I guess that I was always considered a little too weird for the standup clubs and probably too jokey for doing performance art and those places where those are done.

There’s a creative vibe at U.C.B., and to maintain it, we can’t pay people. If you pay, then you have to assign worth to shows, and then people will resent that.

You can do a whole scene in acting without ever checking in to what the other guy is saying – it’s not going to come off great, but you can get through the scene – whereas in improv, that’s gonna be impossible.

I feel like there are a lot of bands or musicians that probably think improv is corny, because I think that’s a sentiment out there.

I saw Chris Rock do standup before he was famous. I was just a teenager. That will always be special to me.