6S, ep. 11: NYC Clown, Madeleine Joyce, learns improv live on the show.

This week we continue our summer project, 6S: Some Suggestions Sometimes Summer School Series. Each week this summer, on #NoSuggestionPod, we'll have on a performer, usually a comedian, with very little long-form improv experience. Me, and a few of past No Suggestion guests, all seasoned improv comedians, will give that guest a private improv class live on the show.

This week we are delighted to be joined by clown, filmmaker, and actor, Madeleine Joyce (@madjoymadjoy). Co-hosts Aston Hollins (@astonhollins), Christopher Morucci (@christophermorucci), and guest co-host Hannah Marias (@hannah_marias), and I have a giddy, mind-bending time trying to keep up with Joyce's fantastical mind. We got to chat about how being unhappy as an actor and as a person brought Madeleine to clown, taking care of the audience in clown vs improv, trying to take control and being the leader, logic limbo, where we would live if we weren't pursuing our dreams in NYC, what its like for Madeleine working as an assistant director on film sets, and more!

We also really find a fun rhythm giving Madeleine her first improv class. We do quite a few scenes, and get to really dissect what worked and how they worked, and we try a few of them again. There's lots of laughing, and lots of discovering.

Madeleine is so creative, and original, and by her own admission, weird, so this is a very dynamic and fun episode. Madeleine really is generous, and present, and we have a great time getting to know her on this episode. We know you'll find getting to know her as beguiling and as enchanting as we did. Tune in!

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