We've been doing a lot of live video on Facebook lately (upwards of 80 a month). Folks in the newsroom have embraced it and we've had fun playing with different formats and approaches. Still, with ...

If last year taught us anything, it’s that planning can only get us so far. What’s the cliche? “The best-laid plans…” and then people trail off ominously. Yep, that was last year if you were a teacher ...

I've recently been taking some improv classes through The Hashtag Comedy Co. in Columbus, Ohio. I thought it would be fun to learn the basics of improv, to develop some useful skills. I had no idea, ...

In his book Funny Business, Bill Connolly explores the connection between business and comedy. With interviews from Boston’s powerhouse standup Gary Gulman to the owners of Boston’s Improv Asylum, ...

A lot of entrepreneurs I come into contact with are creative types. Able to come up with new ideas and design better mousetraps, they see the world and its issues differently and come up with new ...

Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner—the names may seem far afield from what I and other Forbes contributors write about regularly. We’re used to teasing out lessons from ...

Many young people like to participate in improvisational comedy skits — even if they are about saving money. So Wachovia Corp. has hired a Minneapolis improv group, National Theatre for Children Inc., ...

As a borderline pun-a-holic, I thought comedy improv would be my cup of hibiscus tea. When I decided to take an improv course at the Groundlings in LA, not only did I fall into a passionate and steamy ...

He proceeds to immerse an eclectic collection of would-be actors, comedians, writers and job hopefuls in the rudiments of improvisation. The guy’s name is Bill Chott. An actor, comedian and native of ...

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