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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Upright_Citizens_BrigadeUpright Citizens Brigade - Wikipedia

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   The Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) is an improvisational and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago 's ImprovOlympic in 1990. [1] The original incarnation of the group consisted of Amy Poehler, Matthew Walsh, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Adam McKay, Rick Roman, Horatio Sanz and Drew Franklin. Other early members included Neil Flynn, Armando ...

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3. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2016/09/05Upright Citizens Brigade’s Comedy Empire - The New Yorker

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   Aug 29, 2016 · After the show, a fellow-student asked the improvisers how to get started in comedy. Bobby Moynihan (who later went on to “S.N.L.”) answered, “You’ve got to move to New York, work really ...

4. www.vulture.com › 2011 › 03Looking Back at The Upright Citizens Brigade - Vulture

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   Mar 24, 2011 · The Upright Citizens Brigade began around 1990 as a live sketch group at the ImprovOlympic (now iO) Theater in Chicago. The iO was founded by improv legend Del Close, who mentored the group and ...

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5. nymag.com › upright-citizens-brigade-2011-10Looking Back at the Upright Citizens Brigade’s Early Years ...

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   Apr 10, 2019 · The Upright Citizens Brigade arrived with a mission: to make New York comedy smart again. And to get on TV. Fifteen years on, members of the scene that begat Amy Poehler—and about half the funny ...

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7. ucbcomedy.com › show › hell-yeah-a-delightfullyShows - Upright Citizens Brigade

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   Shows - Upright Citizens Brigade. « All Events. Hell Yeah! A Delightfully Improvised Rock Opera, Live and LIVESTREAMED! November 3 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. $10.00. Buy Tickets. With a single suggestion from the audience, Hell Yeah! improvises a 50-minute Rock Opera that would make Andrew Lloyd Webber swoon. Like Les Misérables, The Phantom of the ...

8. ucbcomedy.com › shows › livestreamLivestream Shows - Upright Citizens Brigade

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   Gays vs. Str8s: A Gameshow Death Match, Live and LIVESTREAMED! Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre 5919 Franklin Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States. Gays and Straights battle it out in a comedy war of attrition! Get ready for a hilarious battle of wits and stereotypes as Gays take on Straights in a comedy…. $10.00.

9. wiki.improvresourcecenter.com › indexUpright Citizens Brigade - IRC Improv Wiki

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   Upright Citizens Brigade. A sketch and longform improv group founded in Chicago, which moved to New York and eventually Los Angeles. Its members met mostly at IO in Chicago. Its final lineup (the "UCB 4") founded the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City in 1999 and opening a second branch in Los Angeles in 2004.

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    Who are the Upright Citizens Brigade?

    • The Upright Citizens Brigade began in 1991 as a loose collective of Chicago improv and sketch performers, most of whom studied under the comedy guru Del Close. Through 1993, the fluid membership included Besser, Walsh, Roberts, Ali Farahnakian, Horatio Sanz, and McKay. HORATIO SANZ: We had no respect for any other comedy enterprise in Chicago.

    Looking Back at the Upright Citizens Brigade’s Early Years -- New York

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    Is the Upright Citizens Brigade a nefarious mega-corporation?

    • The Upright Citizens Brigade was originally the name of a nefarious mega-corporation in a sketch from the group’s very early days—a genesis that some might view as prophetic. “Is it more corporate now? Of course it is,” Gethard told me.

    Upright Citizens Brigade’s Comedy Empire | The New Yorker

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    What is the improv group UCB?

    • The iO was founded by improv legend Del Close, who mentored the group and provided the voiceover narration on their Comedy Central show’s title sequence. Although almost all modern sketch comedy is indebted to Close and the Chicago improv scene, UCB bares the closest connection to the long form improv tradition.

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    Who are the UCB Four?

    • Poehler, Besser, Walsh, and Roberts (a.k.a. “the UCB Four”) had moved to New York from Chicago in 1996, a time when Manhattan’s comedy scene was in the first stages of gentrification.

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    Why did UCB make seven minutes of stand-up?

    • PETER PRINCIPATO, UCB agent, 1996–97: [Comics] were still making development deals for seven minutes of stand-up, because [networks] were still trying to re-create the Roseanne–Tim Allen–Bill Cosby sort of thing. Nobody knew how to put together, or label, or sell, alternative comedy.

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    What shows did UCB perform on 26th Street?

    • The performers who took over that strip club—and, later, the UCB’s current main stage on 26th Street—would go on to populate Saturday Night Live, Late Night With Conan O’Brienn, The Daily Show, Human Giant, The Hangover, The Other Guys, FunnyorDie.com, and about three-fourths of NBC’s Thursday-night-sitcom roles.

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