Ari Voukydis has been performing improv, sketch and standup comedy in New York City since 1997, and teaches long form improvisation at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. He is a regular on all those VH-1 shows your niece watches, like The Best Week Ever and All Access, and has also appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and the Upright Citizens Brigade's eponymous television show.

He has written for SPY, Entertainment Weekly, Jane, Esquire and many years ago moonlit as an ask-a-cute-boy columnist for YM. Every Saturday night he co-hosts "The Shark Show” at Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction in the Lower East Side and has created, directed and performed in countless shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade. His natural enemy is the Cobra.

Hometown: Boston, MA