Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

Freak Dance, the latest movie from The Upright Citizens Brigade will be playing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles for a week. Freak Dance is a dance musical parody in the vein of Electric Boogaloo, Step Up, Dirty Dancing, You Got Served and every other dance movie ever made. The sexy and wealthy Cocolonia must escape her roots and learn to street dance with the help of Funky Bunch, who dreams of being the best dancer ever. They must save the Fantaseez community... Read More

Vulture May 11, 2012
Veep’s Matt Walsh on Improv, the Beltway, and His Character’s Fake Dog
by Jennifer Vineyard A founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade, Matt Walsh is constantly popping up in comedies, especially those by friend and frequent collaborator Todd Phillips, to steal an improvised scene or two. But lately, he has been getting a lot more face time — and with the vice-president (as played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus) — on HBO's Veep. On top of that, he recently wrote... Read More

Television Without Pity May 14, 2012
How The League's Jason Mantzoukas Met The Dictator
by Ethan Alter Sacha Baron Cohen may be the main attraction of The Dictator, but don't be surprised if everyone who sees the movie comes out raving about his co-star Jason Mantzoukas. Best known as the outrageous Rafi on the FX series The League, the Upright Citizens Brigade-trained comic actor steals almost every scene he's in as Nadal, a nuclear scientist that runs afoul of Cohen's dictator,... Read More

Deadline May 13, 2012
NBC's 2012-13 Fall Schedule: Four Nights Of Comedy & 'The Voice', No 'Loser' Or 'Smash'
by Nellie Andreeva NBC is making an aggressive push in comedy with blocks on four nights, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. After a last-minute deal with the key actors, veteran comedy series The Office is back with a 22-episode order. Making a debut on NBC's fall schedule is NBC's flagship reality series The Voice after two midseason showings, while The Voice's... Read More

TVLine April 26, 2012
New Spoiler Alert!: Parks and Rec's Aubrey Plaza Is the New Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
by Michael Ausiello In this week’s edition of Spoiler Alert!, Aubrey Plaza doesn’t just dish out scoop after scoop, she is the scoop! First, the Parks and Recreation scene stealer reveals her master plan to get her Pawnee alter ego, April, as pregnant as she is (though preferably not also by her cousin). Then, she spills the beans about the “17 movies” she just shot,... Read More

The Hollywood Reporter May 11, 2012
ABC Gives Series Orders to Connie Britton's 'Nashville,' Reba McEntire Comedy, 'Last Resort,' 6 More
by Lesley Goldberg UPDATED: The network has given series orders to five dramas and four comedies. ABC has picked up its first new series for the 2012-13 season, adding a musical drama starring Friday Night Lights' Connie Britton, a nuclear drama from The Shield's Shawn Ryan, a crime drama with Radha Mitchell, mystery hours featuring ER's... Read More

UCBT performers are hitting the talk show circuit. Below a collection of recent appearances from Ellie Kemper, Lennon Parham, Chelsea Peretti, Amy Poehler, Jessica St. Clair, Paul F. Tompkins, Matt Walsh and Casey Wilson. Read More

The Hollywood Reporter May 9, 2012
Fox Gives Series Orders to Comedies Mindy Kaling's 'It's Messy,' 'Goodwin Games,' 'Ben & Kate'
by Lesley Goldberg The three single-camera comedies mark the network's first series orders this season. Fox has made its first series pickups of the season with a trio of half-hours. In its bid to beef up its live-action offerings, the top-rated network has ordered single-camera comedies from both 20th Century Fox TV and Universal Television. Ben &... Read More

The Hollywood Reporter May 7, 2012
NBC Orders White House Comedy '1600 Penn,' 'Animal Practice' to Series
by Lesley Goldberg The 20th Television-produced political comedy stars Bill Pullman and marks the second project with a "Book of Mormon" star attached that the network has picked up to series for the 2012-13 season. NBC has picked up its fourth and fifth comedy series for the 2012-13 TV season. The network has ordered 13 episodes of 1600 Penn, a White House family comedy... Read More

Zooey Magazine March 12, 2012
Angela Trimbur: Tights and Jazz Shoes
by Zooey Magazine
photo by Melly Lee An adorable blonde, from Philadelphia, Angela Trimbur claims that “socially, [she is] very excitable.” Having been raised with a secluded childhood and home schooled until her senior year of high school, “[she] still feel[s] like a foreign exchange student at times.” We got together at a local coffee shop to discuss the raging success of her YouTube Laundromat dance video, her... Read More

Deadline April 30, 2012
TruTV Unveils Programming Slate
by The Deadline Team TruTV‘s slate of development titles announced today include a Howie Mandel-produced game show set on an airplane and a funny-video pilot from the producers of America’s Funniest Home Videos and Tosh.0 starring Shaquille O’Neal and Gary Owen. There are four series on the production slate, including the cast-contingent auction title Container Wars, in which experts compete against each other to buy the... Read More

The Hollywood Reporter April 25, 2012
Universal Picks Up Pitch from 'Parks & Recreation' Actor
by Borys Kit The actor will write the project, with Brian Grazer producing. Universal Pictures has picked up No Hearts Club, a romantic comedy pitch from actor Ben Schwartz. Schwartz, who is part of Showtime’s ensemble series House of Lies and recurs on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, will now write the project, which is being produced by Imagine’s Brian Grazer. The logline is being... Read More

TV Guide April 4, 2012
Adam Pally On Happy Endings' Season Finale and Other Messed-Up Stuff
by Damian Holbrook It's the end of the season for Happy Endings tonight (9:31/8:31c, ABC) and that makes us anything but happy. We're gonna miss this gang of Chicago pals who talk really fast, abbreviate like champs and use ancient Serbian memory-erasing techniques on one another. But before they go, we grabbed a few minutes with Adam Pally, whose Max is easily the greatest gay character on... Read More

Deadline April 2, 2012
Fox’s ‘In Living Color’, CBS’ ‘Friend Me’ & Martin Lawrence Project Add To Casts
by Nellie Andreeva Saturday Night Live alum Horatio Sanz has been added to ABC’s untitled Kari Lizer comedy pilot, about Hilary Pfeiffer-Dunne (Mary McCormack), a high-powered executive who now faces the biggest challenge of her life when she finds herself unemployed and acting as a full-time mom to her two teenagers. Sanz, managed by 3 Arts, will play the put-upon, wry-humored... Read More

Congratulations to UCB's Craig Rowin, Sara Schaefer & Amy Rhodes for their Daytime Emmy Nominations! THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES ANNOUNCES The 39th ANNUAL DAYTIME ENTERTAINMENT EMMY® AWARD NOMINATIONS Daytime Emmy® Awards will be presented on June 23rd, 2012 At the Beverly Hilton Hotel Daytime Entertainment Creative Arts Emmy® Awards Gala To be held at the Westin Bonaventure in Downtown LA on Sunday, June 17, 2012
Executive Producer, Bill Geddie to... Read More

NBC Schedules Remaining 'Best Friends Forever' Episodes
The final two installments of the Lennon Parham, Jessica St. Clair comedy will air Friday, June 1.
by Lesley Goldberg Best Friends Forever NBC "Best Friends Forever" A week after being yanked from NBC's schedule, the network has scheduled an airdate to burn off the two remaining episodes of freshman comedy Best Friends Forever. The final two half-hours will air Friday, June 1 from 8-9 p.m., The Hollywood Reporter... Read More

The Hollywood Reporter April 14, 2012
'The League''s Paul Scheer Joins Horror Comedy 'Hell Baby'
by Aaron Couch The Darko Entertainment and Principato Young Entertainment film also adds Rob Huebel, Keegan-Michael Key, and Riki Lindhome. The cast for horror comedy Hell Baby has added four more. Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, Riki Lindhome and Keegan-Michael Key have joined the cast of the film, which tells the story of soon-to-be parents who move into a haunted home in New Orleans,... Read More

Join UCB's Matt Walsh For A Live Q&A On HBO Connect
Matt Walsh
Mike McLintock from Veep A founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade, Matt Walsh has appeared in such notable films as The Hangover, Role Models and the upcoming summer comedy Ted. Walsh also recently directed the film, High Road. He's now Vice President Selina Meyer's Director of Communications in the new HBO series Veep. Join him in a live Q&A at HBO Connect Monday, May 7 at 2pm ET/11am PT. Read More

Catie Lazarus and her show "Employee of the Month" were profiled on Marketplace from American Public Media. Listen to the audio below or read the full transcript here. Read More

NBC and The UCB Theater (NYC) 2nd Annual Diversity Scholarship - How To Apply NBC will offer a scholarship to students with advanced skills in improvisation at The UCB Theater. NBCU will sponsor one student, for a full year of UCB Classes. A live “Finalists Showcase” will be scheduled in the fall at The UCB Theater for 10 finalists selected by the Artistic Director of the UCB Theatre. The 2012/2013 Diversity Scholar will be selected by both UCB and NBCU executives based on the... Read More