The Death of a Salesman
How to Improvise
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Welcome to the 100th Episode of this podcast. And what a guest we have for this one.
I met Neil Mullarkey on a coaching course called "Enrich your Pitch" where Neil took us through how one can use the art of improvisation in a business context.
Let's be honest, things don't always go as we plan and prospects and clients can throw you a curve ball from time to time - the key is how you handle that in real-time.
Neil's pedigree speaks for itself, just look at his Wikipedia page :
"In the mid-1980s, he teamed up with Mike Myers as 'Mullarkey and Myers'. They would perform sketches based on their shared love of cartoons, B-movies and bad TV. They played around the burgeoning London pub circuit, particularly at the George IV in Chiswick, where they often shared the bill with the young Hugh Grant, then plying his trade in the Jockeys of Norfolk revue. As their fame increased, Mullarkey and Myers toured the UK, ending in a sold-out season at the Edinburgh Festival.
The two appeared as 'The Sound Asleep Club' on TV-am's 'Wide Awake Club', a children's TV show hosted at the time by Tommy Boyd. Mike eventually returned to Toronto, but Mullarkey would briefly join him to revive 'Mullarkey and Myers' in Canada. Later still, he appeared in Myers' début in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, as the Customs Officer who freaks Austin out with his Swedish-made penis pump. (He also appeared again in Goldmember and helped Mike Myers with uncredited rewrites of So I Married An Axe Murderer."
That's just the intro.
He has performed with Eddie Izzard, and Dawn French to name but a few comedic greats.
As a founding member of The Comedy Store Players, he is regularly performing on the UK comedy circuit.
In this episode, Neil takes us through his 5 step framework on how to use improvisation skills in a business context.
That's all you're getting.
Tune in to and put this into practice.
Learn more about how Neil here :
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilmullarkey/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/NeilMullarkey
For UK folk and anyone visiting who wants to see improv in action: https://comedystoreplayers.com/
As always, my heartfelt thanks to all of my guests for agreeing to be on this show, and you, my listeners - without which this would be for nothing!