bonus episode

Ask the UCB

Hello, hello, welcome to improv for humans bonus episode a new segment. I'm gonna call ask the UCB

My special guest today on the first ask the UCB is Ian Roberts. Welcome

Hello, Matt Besser. I love your organization the UCB. Thank you, but you're part of it. So that's why you hear on as the UCB

As you know, our book is coming out this year and we have talked as we've been writing this book about

A lot of people are gonna have improv questions about the book and when it be cool to have a podcast and I suggest it could be a part of this podcast

I thought a good the books not out yet, but I thought a great way to start would be

The question we always get which is

How did the theater start and why did you start the theater?

Um, and I think that will

pertain to a lot of things going on with it right now once we get into that so

When do we move 96?

Yes

So we can't we'd been in

Chicago we started in 1990 but in 96 we decided we wanted to be on Comedy Central. We'd committed to being a kind of

Kids in the hall. We wanted to do our own thing. We didn't want to be part of

We we didn't going to go in that SNL path that seems most sketch people were going on so we committed to trying to get a show on Comedy Central and

uh

You guys had to leave second city

um

I stopped doing stand-up and teaching and we moved in 96 went where was the first showcase the duplex?

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