#13.1: Find Your Fun with Jake Jabbour and Josh Simpson

Improvise Till You Make It!

This is a very special episode full of FIRSTS for "Improvise Till You Make It!" In our first ever transatlantic (or transpacific, depending on how you look at it) podcast recording, we talk for the first time with not one, but TWO amazing improvisors, and it's an episode so full of juicy insights and hilarious improv, we had to break it into our first ever TWO PART episode!

We were lucky enough to get to talk with Jake Jabbour and Josh Simpson, two L.A. Based improvisors with improv credentials as impressive as they get and a hilarious improv podcast to match. Jake and Josh perform and teach independently and at the UCB Theater in L.A., and on their weekly Improv Podcast, The Meat Improv, which has been running for almost three years, they talk and improvise with some of the worlds greatest names in improv.

After indulging us with the backstory of their improv-duo, we pick Jake and Josh's brains on what it means to "Find Your Fun" in an improv scene, and how we can take the agency we have as improvisors onstage into our lives in order to improve the relationships we have to boredom.

Our conversations lead us to a cabin in the woods where a disgruntled father can't get over the freeloading deer who are distracting him from Christmas dinner with his family, and to a research center where we find out not only that boredom sets in quickly, but when it does it makes people to some incredibly bizarre things.

Follow, like, and subscribe to Jake and Josh's hilarious improv podcast, The Meat Improv, available anywhere you get your podcasts. If you happen to be in L.A., check out Jake's harold team, "Bitchin," a harold team, and his late night talk show, "We're Gross with Gilly." Check out Josh's website for all things Josh Simpson Related. You can also support Jake and Josh's Patreon, and for just $5, you get access to an extra podcast episode each week called "The Potatoes" where Jake and Josh talk Improv shop and share more of their improv thoughts, tips, tricks, and techniques. If you're interested in booking these two amazing performers for workshops, classes, or to come teach at a festival near you, they are ready and willing to jump on a plane! Just send them an email at themeatimprov[at]gmail[dot]com.

As always, thanks for listening, and be sure to follow us on instagram at @henriandblake for a sneak peek of the next episode of "Improvise Till You Make It!" and to keep posted on all the exciting ways we continue to spread the improv mindset.