Afterwards we waited outside the theater like “groupie nerds” (my friend Andy’s words, not mine, hence the quotation marks) to see if he’d come out. He did and we were standing 20 feet away from him and a posse of comedy fans circled him and regaled him with compliments (I’m presuming). We debated going up to him and “living in the moment” (which was a major theme of his act, and also a big tenet of improv comedy) and just saying hi and stuff. We did not, for we are cowards. I totally regret it, even though it only happened like 2 hours ago. In improv, you’re supposed to “yes, and,” in other words you have to accept the reality and heighten it, so that’s one reason I feel bad for not just doing it. Another reason is because I was listening to John Lutz talk on the UCB Podcast on the way back home, and he was talking about how Tina Fey says that you should say “yes” to every opportunity. And she’s right, “no” gets you nowhere, not in a scene and not in life. “No” just leads to regret. Sure, “yes” can lead to regret as well, but at least you get a story out of it. “No” doesn’t even lead to a story. I’ve now imagined various scenarios in which I said “yes” to the impulse to go over to Simon Amstell and make an ass of myself. I am taking this way too far, but I need to learn this lesson badly.

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   Oh, if I were drunk, we (mostly me) would have rammed through the crowd and said “hey, Simon, wanna go to McDonalds?”...

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   much fun! In your defense,...we didn’t want

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