Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

Live, from New York! It's a blonde, blue-eyed beauty channeling freakishly funny oddballs! Read More

The Schrute family continues to grow in anticipation of a possible "Office" spinoff. Read More

Congratulations to the below UCBTNY performers and writers whose pilots have been selected for the NYTVF 2012 Independent Pilot Competition! Read More

Congratulations to UCBTNY performer Josh Patten (Grandma's Ashes, Thunder Gulch), who was just hired as a writer for Saturday Night Live! Read More

Derrick Comedy member DC Pierson has given us the opportunity to exclusively announce his next novel Crap Kingdom. Read More

IFC has launched an “Adopt-A-Comic” program designed to spotlight the standout work of comedians who share the cable network’s “Slightly Off” sensibilities. Read More

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Walsh is going to chase tornados for Steve Quale. Read More

Congratulations to these UCBT performers, named New Faces by Montreal's Just For Laughs festival! Read More

Congratulations to all UCBT performers and writers nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards! Read More

Congratulations to UCBT performers and writers Brian Glidewell, Steve Theiss, and Lee Rubenstein, all finalists for the 5th Annual FOX-NYTVF Comedy Script Contest! Read More

Freak Dance is a musical, dance comedy where the sexy and wealthy Cocolonia (Megan Heyn) must escape her rich mother (Amy Poehler) and learn to dance fight in the streets with the help of Funky Bunch (Michael Cassady), who dreams of being the best dancer ever. Read More

Upright Citizens Brigade's musical improv team, Diamond Lion, will perform improvised scenes and songs at the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) beginning July 13 at the 45th Street Theatre. Read More

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Back Stage's 10 Comics to Watch in 2012</b>
By Daniel Lehman

<b>Ilana Glazer</b>
"Broad" appeal: This New Yorker can brag that Amy Poehler is a fan. The "Parks and Recreation" star and Upright Citizens Brigade co-founder is now executive producer of Ilana Glazer's upcoming FX series "Broad City." Glazer and her comedy partner Abbi Jacobson began the show as a web series -- it featured Poehler and Kristen Schaal in an episode -- then sold it to FX and produced a pilot earlier this year.... Read More

MTV is getting back into the late night comedy game, greenlighting a new series starring up-and-coming comedians Nikki Glaser and Sara Schaefer. Read More

Congratulations to Kate Riley and Sara Schaefer, each of whom recently completed pilots for MTV. Read More

When an unusual classified ad inspires three cynical Seattle magazine employees to look for the story behind it, they discover a mysterious eccentric named Kenneth, a likable but paranoid supermarket clerk, who believes he¹s solved the riddle of time travel and intends to depart again soon. Read More

The Chris Gethard Show was mentioned in this NY Times article about anti-talk shows. Read the excerpt below and click the title for the full article. Read More

Upright Citizens Brigade co-founder Matt Besser had never written a musical before "Freak Dance," his answer to perhaps Hollywood's cheesiest genre, but you couldn't tell that by the finished product: a movie that's been a decade in the making. Read More

Congratulations to Dave Hill (The Dave Hill Explosion, Big In Japan), who has released his first book, Tasteful Nudes. Read More

Taran Killam has been tapped to star in a pair of new indie pics during his summer hiatus from "Saturday Night Live." Read More