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The Excerpt from Bossypants by Tina Fey gets your immediate attention with the title alone. I mean how many experts start with Bossypants? This excerpt also causes for immediate attention because of all the quotations and the (what I would call) back and forth bickering. The main point in this vignette/excerpt is the rules of improvisation. In the text Improvisation is broken down into 5 rules, “AGREE”, “YES”, “MAKE STATEMENTS” and “THERE ARE NO MISTAKES”. This is a very intuitive way to learn about Improvisation. This is because her main point is you are allowed to make up something with no previous Knowledge of what you are going to make or say. I enjoyed the bickering in this text, all the statements like “Who are you? Where are
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