How to Use improv in a Sentence

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• First of all, a scene like that, how much of that is improv?
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• And a good 20 to 30 percent of the show was improv every night.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
• At improv jams, only steps out to suggest that maybe the two girls in the scene should kiss.
  — Fu Goto, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
• Play an improv game over video chat, like the story-telling game.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2020
• The couple met when Arnett went to see one of her improv shows in New York City in 1996.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023
• So, after eight hours and 500 miles: thumbs-up to the improv DVD system.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2018
• For the improv fanatics among us, this is the show to catch this season — even if Drew Carey won’t be there to judge it.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• The Prime Video film sees three improv actors hired by the police to help stage low-level stings.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2024
• Noah Centineo just may be one of the great improv actors of our time.
  — Claire Dodson, Teen Vogue, 17 Sep. 2018
• Ash’s comedic talent was honed as a sketch and improv performer.
  — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• There are so many dudes in the improv community that don’t know what goes on.
  — Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 10 Jan. 2018
• This week's main challenge had the girls guesting on a fake talk show and showing off improv skills.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2018
• Here are four improv groups in metro Phoenix that host free weekly online shows.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 22 Aug. 2020
• Shimmy at a Latin dance party and laugh along with improv troupe Asking for a Friend.
  — cleveland.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• In 1968, Tommy Smothers plucked me out of the improv group, The Committee, and gave me my first writing job for his show.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 27 Dec. 2023
• She’s been a sketch and improv veteran at comedy venues across the Dallas area for the past 10 years.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
• After the show, the Youth Comedy Pilot Program team will lead some improv games for the kids.
  — oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2022
• In the workplace, just like on the improv stage, relationships should support the exchange of ideas, not just cater to one star.
  — Bob Dusin, Quartz at Work, 13 June 2019
• So, when she was asked what was going on once cameras were rolling, that was her improv response.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 13 Feb. 2020
• Ansari tried out improv comedy for a year and half in Dallas, even getting to know her now-husband in the process.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
• For a year, Field taught improv and scene study to middle school students at an after-school program in Rockville.
  — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2023
• The live show pits teams of improv actors against one another for matches with sports-like rules.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 2 Mar. 2023
• Trump’s modus, as ever, was to playact; his game has always been improv.
  — Joe Klein, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
• An improv comedy team can consist of as few as two people or as many as a dozen.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Key was one of Robinson’s first improv teachers at the Second City Detroit.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 6 July 2021
• Reubens created Herman in the late 1970s during his run with the Los Angeles improv group the Groundlings.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• Bruce wanting to be an improv artist is so bizarre to Asian families, but so real for someone like me.
  — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
• Ellie Morris, who plays reluctant actor Lucy in the show, had this happen to her in one of her first improv shows.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 11 Aug. 2023
• With the pool railing, the stunt team knew there was potential there, but plenty of my suggestions ended up in the final show and some of them were improv on the day.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Jan. 2024
• Talk show host Adrienne Houghton and comic Charles Esten are guests in this new episode of the improv comedy series.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024