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Back after these messages: from stream-of-consciousness audience suggestions like "famished," collected by cast member Emily Pollock (above).


Sitcom's crew improvises two half-hour episodes, with commercials-and a theme song by Ben Sussman and André Pluess .
Before a show, actors warm up with improv exercises and inspirational readings of old sitcoms.

The two-minute rule. Josh Sinton , one-half of the evening's commercial cast, cuts the lights when a scene threatens to run too long.
A few seconds after the tag word for a commercial is revealed, Sinton and Nick Green don the guise of sincerity that selling any product -even one related to earwax-demands.


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Continue on to feature, "Doctor, Lawyer, Agency Chief," a profile of FDA Head David Kessler, JD'78
Continue on to feature, "The University Goes Downtown," a photo portrait and day-in-the-life of the new Downtown Center
Continue on to feature, "Will the real McKeon please stand up," about philosopher Richard McKeon.
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