Santa Barbara Improv Workshop

I come from an improv background which advocated NO QUESTIONS. The core reasoning around this rule is based on very sound, scene building principles. A questions doesn’t usually add information to a scene. And what’s worse, a question typically demands that your partner supply additional, specific information.
A question is usually asked to avoid defining something [...]

The term Yes And is a short hand reference to the concepts of Acceptance and Addition. These are core concepts of improv; actually the core concepts of improv.
In an improvised scene, the players are building everything from scratch: setting, plot, and characters. It is critical that when one player defines some component of a scene [...]