"The best lesson I ever learned in improv was to "just have dinner." I had a bad habit during rehearsal scenes of checking in with my coach to see if they liked what I was doing. It would drive them nuts! My attention was not on the scene, but the response I was getting for my performance. Repeatedly, my coach made me do scenes where the setting was a dinner date and I was told to just have dinner the way a real human would: focus on your date, enjoy your food, share pieces of yourself, etc. Find the funny on stage, not in the audience."
