rejectedjokes: “Snowpants show at UCBNY last night. So so so fun. Cast- Adam Scott, Justin Long, Zach Woods, Chad Carter, Neil Casey, me.”
we were on the floor in front. awesome show was awesome!
This is why UCB is awesome. #Snowpants
This show was so so so so great!
Really enjoyed this show last night.
Johnny Romance!
This is a gang of heartthrobs, lady killers, maneaters, and all-around dreamy hunks and babes. Our next show is this coming Tuesday at Harold Night at 7:00pm. Be there!
You are cordially invited.
Join Jump On Three for its third secret show this Wednesday, May 9 at 8:00pm. We have performed in a boxing ring and an office space, where will we have a show this time?
If available and sociable please e-mail jumponthree@gmail.com with the following phrase to obtain further details and instruction:
IRE DEINCEPS
Warmest Regards,
Jo3
April 1, 2006. MOTHER: The Soundtrack. My first time ever going to the UCB Theatre.
I am not sure why this morning, but I decided to see how far back the calendar on the UCB website goes. Turns out, it goes pretty far back. As I was clicking through the months, it occurred to me that I might be able to pinpoint when I went there for the very first time and I was successful and it brought back all of these memories:
I was on a college visit to Columbia with my entire family. During the day, we took a tour of the campus and the tour guide insulted my Dad and brother by saying that football wasn’t important. I remember getting upset with them because frankly, I enjoyed football but it wasn’t that important to me either. Shortly after the college visit that same day, I found out that I had not been accepted into Columbia and would have to attend the only other school I applied to, Ohio State. I was bummed out. I wanted to move to NYC.
That night, my cousin Becca, who was attending Eugene Lang at The New School at the time, met up with us. She knew I was interested in comedy and told us she was taking us to some comedy theatre that was cheap that her and her friends loved. She said the name like 5 times but it never stuck with me. I remember her trying to explain the show to me, “They take your CDs and play them and it’s funny, and there is this one guy Jon Daly who is the best.”
I am able to pinpoint this date now out all of the MOTHER shows because of the show preceding it: Dr. Earnest Parrot presents DEMETRI MARTIN. As I walked down the stairs into the theatre, Demetri Martin, my favorite comedian at the time, walked up the stairs opposite me. I remember being awestruck. What kind of place was I at that Demetri Martin was just walking around, in person! His Comedy Central Presents special was the most cutting-edge comedy I had seen in Ohio up until this point and I was a huge fan.
I spent the time before the show rubbernecking to see if Demetri Martin was still just walking around this odd basement, but he was gone. Soon the show started, they collected the music from the crowd, and the rest of the show is kind of a wash in my mind. I remember one scene where Jon Daly, who my cousin pointed out to me, was a child cooking dinner for his parents (maybe Jessica St. Clair and Jason Mantzoukas, but I may just be projecting/hoping that at this point) and the parents were humoring him despite being in a big fight. I remember laughing really hard at the show and really enjoying it, but enjoying it as someone does a magic show. I had no idea really what they were doing, but I was completely entertained.
The show ended and we exited onto some street (I was a tourist at the time) and were told to move on down to the corner of whatever avenue and while I had enjoyed my evening at the Something Something Brigade Theatre, mostly, I was just bummed that I wouldn’t be moving to NYC in the fall. I remember commenting to my Dad as we walked down the street that I didn’t like visiting New York because it seemed like there was so much going on for comedy—I wanted to live there and be a part of it. He asked me if I had ever thought of doing something like what we saw on stage on that night. He told me I had an expressive face. I think that was the inception of the idea of doing improv for me, though I didn’t know it at the time. I was too concerned with the idea of living in Columbus and going to football games and becoming someone who didn’t do comedy. I left the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre for the very first time with the overwhelming feeling that I would never go there ever again.
Facebook really calling out @AlanStarzinski.
Alan, I am sure you have a good reason, but whatever you did to piss off Facebook, it is straight up snitchin’.
Jump on Three is hosting an indie showcase at the UCBEAST this SUNDAY at 6PM. It’s going to be really fun and we’ve got some awesome indie teams to show you guys.You don’t want to miss it!
We’ve got some great teams coming in to perform! Harbinger! King Regis! Maybe some more surprises too! It’s a great way to spend a Sunday evening!
NEW HAROLD TEAM
STARTER NAME: IF HE FELL, JR.
Lauren Adams, Nicole Byer, Ellena Chmielewski, Oscar Magallanes, Matt Mayer, Johnny McNulty, Pat O’Brien, and Matt Starr.
Very excited to perform with these folks.
Here’s another TV news feature about the UCB. This one’s about ten years old.
Highlights:
- Scenes from a decade-old Asssscat, with lots of recognizable faces.
- Scenes from a Delaney class at the old offices (pre-training center).
- A teenaged Zach Woods discussing how improv is more fun than high school.
- A topical reference to a Palm Pilot!
I’ve linked to this before, because the show’s website is still up! If you go there, you can click on “Modem” or “Cable/DSL” and watch the video in RealPlayer format. Instead of waiting for this to disappear or become even more obsolete, I nobly rescued the video last night, converted it into something a little more 2012sy, and put it up on YouTube.
Delaney makes me laugh around 4:58. “He just breaks down, man.”
That class looked like Dillinger plus. There’s Brett Christensen, Zach, Wengert and I think Risa. Also Stan Laikowski, Krista Amigone, Matt Demblowski and Dan McInerny. Fun!
Owen pulling Scheer out of the chair in the final seconds of this, and Paul letting his legs be all cartoony —- that was like one second of Respecto brilliance bleeding through what is otherwise a well-behaved improv set.
This makes me proud for some reason.
Dan McInerney as a dog! And all of the other really great stuff in the video.
I like that they captured the essence of the theater’s pillars as well.
Gossip Girl visits the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
Myself, Benjamin Apple, and Kate Riley all make an appearance.
If The News Hour with Jim Leher ever visits it’ll be me, Delaney and Kevin Cragg.
Worlds collide. Great job, everyone!
Check out Deckard’s Benjamin Apple on Gossip Girl playing an actor at the Upright Citizens Brigade. Benjamin, Nate Dern and Kate Riley all are fantastic, though watching them play fictional versions of themselves playing fictional versions of fictional people in a fictional UCB is causing my eyelids to twitch.
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