Now in the Hollywood version of my story what would happen is there'd be about three minutes where I would move to Chicago
在我的故事的好莱坞版本中 有大约三分钟时间 关于我搬到芝加哥
And I would suffer mightily probably at night or in the rain There would be music in the background and I would come home at night
然后我在夜色下 风雨中 遭受了巨大的挫折 背景音乐甚为凄惨 我深夜回到住所
To a dog in a giant loft that I could somehow miraculously afford
家里有条狗 而我住在巨大的阁楼之中 真不知道当时我哪有钱买这个
And fall asleep And after those three minutes, I would be discovered by a director
然后睡觉 这三分钟后 我被一个导演发现
Who would cast me to film and I'd walk down the red carpet and my parents would be across the red carpet giving me the thumbs up
他让我去拍电影 然后我走上红地毯 而我的父母在红地毯的另一边 对我竖起大拇指
In the real world story of what happened when I decided to make a big bet on myself and
而真实世界的故事中 我当时之所以决定赌上我的人生
Take the chance to do this because it's what I loved
决定干这一行 是因为我爱它
I was grinding away for a long time and I had no money and we would rehearse during the day
我努力了很长时间 一直穷困潦倒 我们需要在白天排练
And perform to these little theaters at night for free And I was taking classes during the day at Second City as well
然后晚上免费到小剧院表演 白天我还在第二城市接受课程培训
Trying to learn improvisation and I eventually had to get odd jobs because I had no money
学习即兴表演 最终因为没钱 我必须找一些奇怪的工作
So I put my CS degree from Michigan to use wrapping flatware and selling place settings in Crate & Barrel
我将我在密歇根获得的计算机科学学位 用于在Crate&Barrel包装和销售餐具
But while I kept on improvising in Chicago for many years I want to tell you two lessons I learned in that very first year there
但我在芝加哥从事即兴表演的很多年中 我第一年就学到了两点 和大家分享一下
Learning at Second City The first one was
这是在第二城市学到的 第一点是
We had this director at Second City who was instructing a class I was in named Don Depollo
有一位导演在第二城市中的一门课上教过我 他叫唐.德波洛
