EXCLUSIVE: The Second City on Thursday announced This Might Get Awkward, a limited podcast series featuring comedian Allison Reese and social scientist and host of The Psychology Podcast, Scott Barry Kaufman, which is set to launch this fall.
In six episodes, the hosts will attempt to have productive conversations with people who hold strong opinions that they may disagree with. Using the improvisation concept of “Yes, And,” the idea is to be able to communicate through difference, a skill set that seems to be sorely lacking these days.
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Confirmed guests so far include Andrew Yang, Loretta Ross, Norman Finkelstein and Caroline Fleck.
Vice President of Creative Strategy, Innovation and Business Development at The Second City, Kelly Leonard noted, “In improvisation, we teach the need to be free of judgement – judgement of self and judgement of others – in order to make something out of nothing. That’s what this podcast is attempting to do. We don’t need to sacrifice our morals or integrity to engage humans who may think differently than we do. More “Yes, And” and less “No, but.””
The Second City opened its doors in 1959 as a small comedy cabaret and has since grown to become one of the world’s most influential names in improvisation and comedy. Its stages, Touring Companies, and Training Centers across North America have been the launch pad and artistic home for many of the best known names in comedy, including Bill Murray, Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Schitt’s Creek‘s Eugene Levy & Catherine O’Hara, Amy Poehler, and a pre-Key & Peele Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, to name just a few.
