Category Archives: Noteworthy

Special things that deserve a little recognition

Bobby Moynihan’s Face Joins Saturday Night Live

So as commenter The Gooch rightly noted, I have not written about Bobby Moynihan, of UCBs Stepfathers, being picked up by SNL. This is of course amazing news. Bobby had auditioned for SNL last year and was not added to the cast, but I think all of us expected if he auditioned again he would [...]

Website Update Complete

 
So, we had to upgrade our website software, because we accidentially erased the old template.
And by we, I mean me
So, if you see anything funny happening be sure to let me, or my huge staff of well paid interns, know about it The site is basically entirely recodded from the ground up to work on older [...]

Upright Citizens Brigade: 2nd Season in Stores Now

So the Upright Citizens Brigade 2nd Season was released yesterday on DVD for $19.34. I’m slow on my checking press releases. The two-disc set features all 10 of the second season’s episodes (with early live performances, deleted scenes, and audio commentary):

Master Dialectitian (Original Air Date: 14 June 1999)
Bomb Squad (Original Air Date: 21 June 1999)
Mogomra [...]

Improvoker 1.0 Coming to an Internets Near You

Although the updates to the site’s main content have been limited in recent weeks, let me assure you that we are hard at work developing content for the website. We have been seeing more shows than is humanly possible, taking more improv and sketch classes than is recommended, and have been practicing in the fragments [...]

What’s Happening?!

That’s right, we now have our own super up-to-date calendar (in the sidebar, look to your right) of events around town, thanks to our very special friends over at upcoming.org. We’ll be adding new events as we see them, so if you have a show and want to be listed add it to upcoming.org with [...]

Del Close’s Skull Controversy Finally Settled

The story behind Del Close’s bequeathing his skull to iO (Improv Olympic) Chicago, to be used in theatrical productions, has always been the subject controversy. The New Yorker has finally unconverted the truth behind Del Close’s skull at the Improv Olympic.
She [Charna Halpern] now pleads guilty—with an explanation. “After Del died, I asked the hospital [...]