Paul and I have been friends and, I think, positive creative influences on one another for several years at this point. He & I met, as many comedy partners do, at a Best Buy. His desire to get into stand-up comedy got me to try it out for myself, and I then reciprocated this with inviting him into the improv troupe I was performing with at the time. Since then, Paul and I regularly keep in contact with our own creative pursuits - having both signed up for improv classes and founded our own improv troupes. If I were a better word-sayer I'd have more to say on this and probably tie it up real nicely with some kind of moral about how support and determination can lead to success in creative pursuits, but that's dumb. Paul is my friend and we're both here trying our best to do this comedy thing the best that we know how, and it's a real good time.

This episode was a great one. Paul and I really worked over how to take the initial idea of how music documentaries work and turn it into it's own improv structure, and I think we landed somewhere really fun. In my opinion, anyone looking for a new way to approach improv as a form would do really well to look at it through the lens of trying to do something that you enjoy in a scripted/constructed sense (plays/movies/documentaries, etc) and seeing if you could figure out how to mechanically recreate something like that on the fly. "This is Gonna Be Big" is our attempt at that for a music documentary/biopic, with our first episode being for the music video/short film that accompanied Michael Jackson's "Bad", and I really hope you enjoy it!

Be sure to follow Paul on all the social medias, including his Facebook page at Paul Antonia Smith, @luaphtims on Instagram, and his improv troupe Diversty & Dave on Instagram & Facebook and who perform live throughout the Osceola area.