"I heard from some of the Seattle people that because they don't have an improv scene there, a lot of their stuff comes from the theater; whereas, I feel like a lot of the people who do sketch [at the UCB] come from improv. And you could see the difference in a lot of the groups that are improv-based as opposed to theater-based."
Joe Wengert

"I saw a lot of shows that opened my eyes to different styles and strategies that we should be trying—it's amazing. Changed my life. I saw a show Friday night by a group from Seattle called Flaming Box of Stuff. The main thing that I learned is that the other groups seemed to use more theater, like they do visual things that work on a stage that wouldn't work on film, wouldn't work on print. And there are things that aren't in the script—visuals, simple, clever sets. And stage pictures that we don't even think about. Then I saw Ten West from L.A., and they get so much mileage out of just their faces and old Harold LLoyd-style falling down. But our group is very verbal and premise-based, and we like that stuff, but why not add in theater again? It's just that we're not actors—we're comedy geeks."
Will Hines