Improv and the Problem of Free Will

Within a week, six friends sent me this brilliant New Yorker cartoon. Clearly my branding is set in stone. Randy, the improv guy.

I may be set but the cartoon’s humor gets some of its impact from its flexibility. Look at it through Randy’s lens and it morphs.

The cartoon’s premise: the Lord is worried that free will might engender improv. Ha! Ha! The hidden premise: fostering free will is improv’s far more likely result. Anxiety about the loss of free will has long plagued mankind...