Improv Trip Your Tongue
Pick a tongue-twister and run it slowly, exaggerating every consonant until your lips and tongue ache — "the tip of the tongue, the teeth, the lips", "red leather, yellow leather". Only once it's perfectly clean do you speed up. Do three or four, then read a random paragraph aloud with that same crisp attack on every word. Half of being understood on stage is consonants. An audience forgives a quiet voice, never a mumbled one, and articulation is a muscle that only sharpens with reps. Two minutes of this before you play and the back row hears every single word — which is where half of comedy's timing actually lives.
🎓 Notes for the teacher
Slow and clean beats fast and mushy. Speed is the reward for accuracy, never the goal — a twister rushed into a blur trains nothing but the blur.
Spotted a mistake, a missing variant, a better way to run it? Change it.