improviser
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- noun
- /ɪmˈprɒvaɪzər/
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improvisador
- At the comedy club, the improviser made the audience laugh with his spontaneous jokes.
- composer and improviser
- improviser and performer
- master improviser
Jim Rash is an amazing improviser and can save a floundering scene.
- Jim Rash is an amazing improviser and can save a floundering scene.
- And improvising, each improviser has the job of making the other one look good.
- And I thought it felt to me like an improviser doubling down on his shtick.
- What, what do you think makes a great improv improviser?
- He's all about teaching stuff and he's a great improviser.
- Some of them are talk show hosts, some of them are improvisers.
- And she's really funny and nice and sweet and she's a great improviser.
- You know, the preparation plays a huge part in being a good improviser.
- And then my podcast Cashing In with TJ Miller is the conceit is that Cash Levy, he's a comedian and a improviser friend of mine that I tour with.
- I think Angela, Angela Kinsey as well, which is good because they, you know, they have, they're incredible improvisers.
- You know, they call me improviser killer.
Examples
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Different styles, rhythms, harmonic systems, and the improviser's own musical philosophy determine the nature of the improvisation.
Academic text (1995) -
What distinguishes one improviser from another is the nature and scope of the choices.
Academic text (1991) -
Steve was a great improviser and just a fantastic musician.
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No, I'm the worst improviser in the world.
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I thought you were the great comic improviser, Lloyd.
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These guys are incredible improvisers.
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Jim Rash is an amazing improviser and can save a floundering scene.
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How do young musicians become improvisers, and what can teachers do to foster the process?
Academic text (1991) -
And Julian Gantz is an actor and an improviser, a very, very skilled improviser who I first learned about from Groundlings.
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Lamont Johnson had been one of my closest buddies at Northwestern and the best improviser I'd ever seen.
Fiction book (1991)
Antonyms
How Expressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Improviser comes from improvise, which is built from im- 'not' plus a root that means 'seen before' or 'planned'. So an improviser is someone who makes or performs things 'not planned' and does them on the spot without prior preparation.