Quotes About UCB

I moved to New York and went to a performing arts college, but it wasn't until UCB that I started performing on the regular, figuring out how I'm funny, why I'm funny, and how to play with an audience.

I think so often about how, when I was starting out at UCB, Conan O'Brien was in town, and on his show back then, they sometimes did character bits, and I started getting paid to dress up as a page or a Dutch boy on his show.

I can't tell you how many bizarre shows at UCB I was a part of.

I had always done broader characters, but going to UCB and speaking to my own voice was important for auditioning for TV and film.

I'd taken some classes at UCB in New York and again at the Magnet Theater and the PIT Theater. I definitely never advanced to where I was on a team or anything like that.

I love UCB Chelsea. There is, to me, no stage like it.

I wanted to be a director and comedian and my plan was to go to NYU. I wanted to be in UCB.

The way that UCB taught us to improvise, you always start from an inspiration from your life, something that's happened to you or a friend. And then you put a comic game onto it. It always starts from a place of reality, of truth.

UCB has been compared to a cult and a pyramid scheme, and it's all that stuff.

I'm an improviser. I came up doing improv at the U.C.B. Theater in New York for seven years. That's where I started, so improv is what I love.

My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.

The UCB has long been known as a hub of the best comedy in New York City, but it's never been the most well organized or cared for place in the world.