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RICKY CAMILLERI: Did you think
of yourself as a funny person

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prior to taking improv?

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Or did you discover that you
had the ability to make people

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laugh when you were doing that?

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SUZY NAKAMURA: I know I have the
ability to make people laugh.

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I don't think I'm
funny, if that makes--

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if that makes sense.

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I don't consider myself funny.

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I don't know.

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It's a coping mechanism,
to be completely honest.

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[LAUGHS]

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RICKY CAMILLERI: To not
consider yourself funny?

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SUZY NAKAMURA: No,
it's a coping--

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comedy is a coping mechanism.

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And I think a lot a lot of
people would say that, right?

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And acting in general, I think,
most actors are very shy,

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or they're, you know, reserved.

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But when you tell them
to be someone else,

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then they can open up and
be a different person.

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And that's not rare, is it?

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RICKY CAMILLERI: No,
that's not rare at all.

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I just think Second
City is a fairly

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difficult thing to get into.

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It is, in many ways--

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some of the best have
come out of there.

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And I think you have
to be pretty funny.

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I mean, you're not just
performing when you're there.

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You're writing, as
well, aren't you?

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SUZY NAKAMURA: Yeah,
well, you're improvising

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and you're writing
through improv.

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Yeah, but I also
think comedy is--

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you get a laugh when
you tell the truth,

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or someone recognizes
something, or thinks

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you're someone they know.

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It's that recognition laugh
or that universal laugh.

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So I think the more
honest you are,

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then that's when you're going
to get the really good laughs.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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