The City Veins

In response to the text-heavy, pseudo-intellectual debate occupying this blog for the last few days, I offer this comedic relief for your Friday viewing pleasure. Upright Citizens Brigade is an improv group based in NYC and the four founding members (including SNL’s Amy Poehler) had a show on Comedy Central for 3 glorious seasons in the late 1990s. It is, in my humble estimation, the greatest show ever. Last Tuesday, Season 2 was released on DVD (a mere 4 years after the release of Season 1). I urge everyone with a sense of humor and half a brain to go buy these DVDs immediately so that Comedy Central doesn’t take another 4 years to release Season 3. Whether you remember the show or not, you will thank me. Also, the UCB touring company is coming to Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse on November 9. I strongly recommend anyone in the DC area to go; you could very well be watching the next generation of comedy stars.

Here’s some clips from Season 1: