Magic Lessons Ep 203: "Know the Taste of Failure" featuring Michael Ian Black

Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert and Maximum Fun

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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2016

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week on Magic Lessons, Elizabeth Gilbert enlists the comedian Michael Ian Black to help coach Keith, an improv comedy performer in Baltimore. A few years ago Keith fell hard for improv. He took every improv class in Baltimore and but there wasn't a regular space to perform. So he formed a troupe and found a venue, building a vibrant improv community called the Charm City Comedy Project. But, somewhere along the way, he neglected his own dreams of creating a one-man show.

Special Guest: Michael Ian Black is an actor, comedian, and host of the podcast "How To Be Amazing." On TV you can find him on The Jim Gaffigan Show and Another Period. He's also the author of the memoir Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine, (But Also My Mom's Which I Know Sounds Weird.) Find out more about him at MichaelIanBlack.org

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0:59.0	Hi everyone and welcome to Magic Lessons, a podcast produced by Maximum Fun.
1:09.0	I'm Elizabeth Gilbert and last year I wrote this book called Big Magic, Creative Living Beyond Fear.
1:17.0	But even when I was finished with the book, I was definitely not finished with the topic because I'm still as much as ever fascinated with the intricacies of the creative process and how we find our way through that strange journey, the obstacles we made
1:34.7	along the way and the joy of what we ultimately create and it is through my desire
1:39.1	to keep having that conversation that this the Magic Lessons Podcast was born. So here we are
1:45.0	season two and we are back back with more real conversations with real people
1:51.1	amateurs and experts this season we will be meeting poets and novelists,
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