benzado

bransonreese:

I’ve been in New York for over a year now and probably as a result of my shyness and two inconveniently timed vacations I have had horrible luck forming and getting onto practice teams.  I’m on a team now, mostly as a result of the heroic efforts of Chris McKeever.  I’ve got to say, if this interview team was accepting applications a few months ago, I’d have written up a resume so fast my fingers would’ve gotten blood all over them.  That’s how quickly I would’ve typed.

Does that make me some sort of scab?  I certainly hope not.  Maybe I’m projecting, but socially interacting with people can be terrifying for me.  Maybe by making it into an interview, they were trying to eliminate that stress and turn it into an environment we’ve all experienced.   I’m not sure what was going through that team’s collective minds, and I’m not sure I care.  I just hope that the improv people of new york don’t turn their back on whoever did apply for that team.  I imagine that they’re just trying to be accepted into this awesome but very intimidating community.

That being said, I laughed at most of those tweets when I read your post, Ben.

Oh, I didn’t say they weren’t funny. Just unfair.