I'm sure they pay their teachers, but between the astronomical amount of money they make on classes, the money they make on tickets/beer/merch, and the fact that many of their employees are volunteers/interns, I don't really buy it when the UCB starts crying poverty.

Most of my friends who live in the city and freely pursue their artistic endeavors have rich parents. It's really the only way to be a successful artist and not spend the majority of your time wondering how the hell you're going to eat/pay rent.

I guess I'm biased because I dropped $1600 on classes after I bought into the same "it's my one-way ticket to SNL!" thing that 90% of their students do. The classes were good for the most part, but nothing I couldn't get much cheaper somewhere else. Basically you're paying for the "cred".

That's pretty much improv in a nutshell. The UCB Comedy Central show was extremely uneven for that very reason - for every "ass pennies", "birthday song", or "titular line" sketch, there are three or four painfully unfunny ones that nobody remembers.

I'm totally going to bang Matt Besser's girlfriend while wearing a Darth Vader costume.

I think a lot of the resentment comes from the fact that the UCB is flush with cash from its improv/sketch classes. If you consider that every semester there are at least sixty different classes going on, each with 10-15 people paying $400 each, that shit adds up.

Apparently their classes are not technically associated with the theater itself, but they are a goddamn money machine. Thousands of people pay out the ass because everybody wants to be the next Amy Poehler or, to a lesser extent, Bobby Moynihan.

In a world where nerds are the new jocks, the UCB has pretty much become the Alpha House of the NYC comedy scene.

I actually love this movie because it's really a self-conscious sendup of 80s sex comedies with beach settings.

The Rotten.com library is a really fantastic resource, at least when it comes to the more fleshed-out articles.

That was pretty great. There were a lot of subtle callbacks that made the first part of tonight's Office twofer a decent show.

That was pretty great. There were a lot of subtle callbacks that made the first part of tonight's Office twofer a decent show.

I haven't even read this review yet but FUCK THAT BOOM GUY AND WHOEVER WROTE HIM INTO THE SHOW

I haven't even read this review yet but FUCK THAT BOOM GUY AND WHOEVER WROTE HIM INTO THE SHOW

I don't get it. Do they write really good sketches?

I'm constantly amazed that, with all of the fantastic sketch groups out there, and SNL theoretically being the place that they all want to end up, none of them ever make it there? Or if they do, they just begin sucking? I used to give them a pass for the weeklong creative process, but come on. If you're the best of…

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I saw "New Year's Eve" on an airplane and it made me angrier than any film I had ever seen for this exact reason.

I saw "New Year's Eve" on an airplane and it made me angrier than any film I had ever seen for this exact reason.

"Childlike joy"? Okay, I'll give you the ending, but a lot about that movie was fucking horrifying. Fantastic, but fucking horrifying.