CONNOR RATLIFF presents THE ACTING CLASS: THE PODCAST

Today is Tom Hanks' 70th birthday, and a listener has a birthday-timed pair of questions

A specific question about my character process when doing Comedy Bang! Bang! live shows

A question about which singer/songwriter I would select to create a jukebox musical based on my life (I give a detailed but disappointingly evasive answer)

There's a book!  1st edition limited to 100 copies.  Also: a question about the voices in the Peanuts TV specials & movies

Should I keep doing this podcast?  Maybe not!

A question about my process for devising characters for Comedy Bang! Bang! live touring shows

Thoughts on interacting with famous ppl

A question about George Lucas returning to CINEMA as the voice of one of the Minions in this summer's MINIONS & MONSTERS

Asked to rank the Toy Story films, and I more-or-less do, while also suggesting what I hope will at some point be done with the first one.  I also talk about the way that people wish for good things to end before they go downhill, including thoughts on Widow's Bay and The Wire.

Am I **not funny**?  Well, it depends on who you ask!

New Steven Spielberg movie I auditioned for... and I did **NOT** book the role!  But there is always HOPE for the FUTURE!  Allow me to unpack the process a teeny-tiny bit...

Longest episode yet!  The first half is deep-dive stuff about the Del Close Marathon, the multi-day, multi-stage improv festival which just returned to NYC for the first time in close to a decade!  Then I pivot to the recent controversy about who can call themselves a "New Yorker."  I talked too long!  But then again, what is the point of this thing, anyway, if not to talk too long?

how my brain work?

I just finished a week of touring with Comedy Bang! Bang! and somebody asked me a question about how that whole thing works!

As promised: expanded rambling thoughts regarding one of my favorite characters of all time: Miles Drentell.  I recorded this one while very tired, so I don't remember all the different things I veered off-topic about!

I saw a clip of Melissa Villaseñor talking about her post-SNL experience, and it got me thinking.

2 mostly unconnected concepts: will I ever perform in Australia, and are there ways for people to support my various creative endeavors?

A re-record of an episode I recorded 2 days earlier (walking through London) which proved unlistenable.  This is me talking about the same things in the quiet of my Earl's Court hotel room late at night.  Buckingham Palace & St James Park are the central topics, though of course I ramble.

100TH EPISODE!!!  Contains a brief section about the fictional character Miles Drentell, which is a topic I will likely return to in a future episode.

A question about "Nepo Babies" leads me to several other terms that rattle around in my head sometimes

2 questions!  One about D&D and another about Doing Dialects!

I am about to cross The Brimley/Cocoon Line, which is the moment in life when a person is the same age that actor Wilford Brimley was when the film COCOON was released in theaters.

My thoughts about "non-actors" doing acting!

Someone asked about Griffin Newman and these are my thoughts about him!

In episode 4 of the Apple TV Original Series WIDOW'S BAY, I play the role of Deputy Kent.  It is a brief appearance, but here I go talking about it for way too long!