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Ian Roberts

  1. improv
    Amy Poehler on UCB Closure: ‘We Did Make Mistakes’“What’s most important is people know how much we care about this theater, to keep it alive.”
    By Megh Wright
  2. layoffs
    Upright Citizens Brigade’s Founders Address Mass LayoffsAmy Poehler will reportedly cover an extra month of health-care coverage for full-timers.
    By Megh Wright
  3. institutions
    UCB Could Be Facing ‘the Beginning of the End’ Amid CoronavirusLayoffs, theater closures, and silence from the Upright Citizens Brigade founders are alienating a community that may be unwilling to return.
    By Megh Wright
  4. Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh Announce 2018 […]Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts,and Matt Walsh are bringing UCB’s popular long-running improv show ASSSSCAT to a very important stage […]
    By Megh Wright
  5. Matt Besser and Ian Roberts on Bringing the UCB Stages to the Screen with […] The UCB 4 – Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, and Ian Roberts – have returned for a second season of the hosting The UCB Show, a comedy […]
    By Isaac Kozell
  6. Ian Roberts and Jay Martel Developing ‘The Romeos’ at ABCKey and Peele’s showrunners have a new comedy in the works at ABC. According to Deadline, Ian Roberts and Jay Martel have sold a half-hour […]
    By Megh Wright
  7. Poehler, Besser, Roberts, and Walsh Look Back on the Early Days of UCBTo celebrate UCB’s 25th anniversary and annual Del Close Marathon this weekend, founders Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh […]
    By Megh Wright
  8. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Are Producing an Action-Comedy ‘Manimal’ MovieIf you’re a huge fan of the shortly lived ‘80s television series Manimal, then today is your lucky day. Deadline reports that Sony Pictures […]
    By Megh Wright
  9. ‘Key & Peele’ Bosses Ian Roberts and Jay Martel to Showrun Alison Brie’s […]Ian Roberts and Jay Martel, who have been showrunners on Comedy Central’s Key & Peele since the show began, and now they’re looking to do […]
    By Bradford Evans
  10. ‘Key & Peele’ Showrunners Ian Roberts and Jay Martel Talk the Third […]Key & Peele wraps up its third season next week, and the dynamic sketch show continues to work like a well-oiled machine, delivering an […]
    By Joel Arnold
  11. Bob Odenkirk and Patton Oswalt Join the Cast of ‘The Kitchen Sink’Bob Odenkirk, Patton Oswalt, and Ian Roberts have joined the cast of The Kitchen Sink, a new horror-sci-fi-comedy, Deadline reports. The movie […]
    By Bradford Evans
  12. The UCB Improv Manual Is Finally HereThe long-awaited UCB improv manual has arrived! At Friday’s opening press conference for the 15th Del Close Marathon, a mysterious box joined […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  13. Looking Back at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade TV Show with the UCB4The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. […]
    By Ramsey Ess
  14. Listen to Matt Besser and Ian Roberts Explain the History, Philosophy, and […]UCB Theatre founders Matt Besser and Ian Roberts did a special episode of Besser’s Earwolf podcast improv4humans today, in which they walk […]
    By Bradford Evans
  15. Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart Join Forces for ‘Get Hard’Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart are attached to star together in Get Hard, a new comedy movie that Warner Brothers is in talks to acquire, Deadline […]
    By Bradford Evans
  16. upright citizens brigade
    Watch Matt Walsh and Amy Poehler Discuss the History of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater on Rock CenterBriWi goes downtown for laughs.
    By Eliot Glazer
  17. Grand Opening Of UCB’s Second NY Location Is (You Got It) ImprovisedThis weekend saw the grand opening of the UCB’s second location in New York, after two long years of securing licenses, tearing down walls, and […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  18. A Love Letter To UCB’s 15 Years In New YorkTo honor the UCB’s 15 years in NYC and the opening of UCBeast, New York Mag checked in with about 50 alumni of the many-headed comedy hydra, […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  19. Checking In With the Cast of Upright Citizens BrigadeWhatever happened to predictability, the milkman, the paperboy, evening TV…and the cast and creators of Upright Citizens Brigade? The list of […]
    By Joshua Kurp
  20. Conan’s Slew of New PromosThe marketing machine is in full effect over at TBS, what with the debut of Conan a mere month away. In the last two days, they’ve posted a […]
    By Adam Frucci
  21. the industry
    Aaron Eckhart and Richard Jenkins Go Drinking With Johnny DeppPlus: Banana Hands finally gets his own reality show.
    By Amos Barshad