Chillin' on TJ's Couch

Did that really happen? Did I really spend a couple hours yesterday sitting on TJ Jagodowski's comfy couch while asking him any question about improv I could cook up in my hungry, little brain?

Yeah. Yeah, I did.

While my dear friend Peter held the camera (cue the "bow chicka bow wow" music), TJ and I hung out in his living room together yesterday during our interview for my Geeking Out with.... series. For TJ and TJ alone, I made a rare exception to my practice of interviewing my subjects via online chat. Although I will think of various uses for the video (none of them including porn, I swear!), it really was just an ultra-safe way of recording the interview. I also recording it on my computer, just for double safety. The buttload of extra work transcribing the interview will be well worth it, however. TJ was charming, open, extraordinarily humble, and entirely poetic in his descriptions of his improv philosophies and experiences. When I asked, "How does your mom describe your job to her friends?" he called her to find out. And then during her loving description, he got a little choked up. That's some fine TJ TV right there, that's what that was folks.

But in all seriousness, I'm feeling overwhelmingly grateful for the opportunity to talk about this art from with my favorite improviser on the planet. What a huge, huge gift. Much gratitude abounds in my heart.