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The Upright Citizens Brigade - The Complete First Season

The Upright Citizens Brigade - The Complete First Season

List Price: $29.99
Your Price: $23.99
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: DAMN YOU BONG BOY!!!
Review: This show is the way it is supposed to be. Funnier than Saturday Night Live, better than MadTv, more intelligent than most others, the only thing it might pale in comparison to is Monty Python. But I digress.

What didn't this show have? Support from its channel. It was hilarious, very influential (at least to me and it looks as though The Daily Show enjoyed it as well).

This show has been known to cure cancer, fight crime, and chaos bleeds because of it.

Where there is chaos.

When the dolphins come to enslave the human race, will you be ready?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Check it!
Review: These people took risks and produced this unusual, exciting and very funny first season. So many laugh out loud moments from strange concepts that come together and really pay off. Every episode is unique. Excellent features as well. The included pilot episode was obviously shot on a smaller budget and some scenes were in front of a live audience which was never the case on the aired episodes. The commentary style varies, for the episodes that include it, from informal "rappin' 'n' riffin'" in front of a live audience that is watching the episodes with them to intimate studio-recorded analysis, but all the commentary is fun and informative. If you are ever in New York City on a Sunday night, come by their theatre and some of the four UCB members and friends will do improv for you. That's like an extra extra feature. The current address and phone number of The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre is right on the DVD box. If you haven't seen the "Little Donny" episode then your money is well spent for that alone. People really love that episode. So will you.

I don't see the features listed on the Amazon copy so here they are:
-The complete first season: "Bucket of Truth", "Poo Stick", "Saigon Suicide Show", "Power Marketing", "Children's Revolution", "Story of the Toad", "Lady of the Lake", "Time Machine", "Cyborgs", and "The Little Donny Foundation".
-Exclusive commentary for pilot episode and the "Cyborgs" epsiode recorded in front of a live audience at the UCB Theater, followed by a Q & A session.
-Audio commentary for "The Bucket of Truth", "Power Marketing","Time Machine" and "The Little Donny Foundation".
-Alternate audio commentary for "The Little Donny Foundation" episode by Little Donny and his parents.
-UCB pilot episode
-Deleted Scene "Highland Epoxy".
-Original live versions of "Little Donny" and the "Andre the Giant" Song.
-Original UCB Trailers.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: UCB Finally on DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: UCB is here the best sketch comedy show to ever be on television!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: buy it for "Little Donny"
Review: I am very glad UCB has been packaged for DVD now. In 1999 as my college graduation lurked around the corner, my housemates and I got hooked on this show and laughed away our remaining days of college bliss. I honestly don't think I have ever laughed harder than when The Little Donny Foundation episode debuted. It is easily easily easily worth 30$ just for this episode alone. If you don't find this show funny, you must not have a soul.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best TV Show Ever Made (behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Review: The BEST reason to pick it up: the commentary on some of the episodes. Hilarious! The UCB can milk humor from anywhere, and here they are parodying commentaries with their commentary. A wealth of funny. A plethora of comedy. An eclectic morass of genius.

Oh, and I paid for my copy using two thousand ass pennies.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: amazing show
Review: enough cannot be said about this true gem of comedy genius. i feel like i have a better sense of humor having watched every episode. just to clarify an earlier review by "a viewer from los angeles", the show was on for 3 seasons, (30 total episodes), and matt besser and amy poehler are not real life husband and wife. according to the IMDB, poehler is married to some guy named will arnett. besides that, great review for a truly amazing show.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wow....
Review: Everyone should be required to watch the Upright Citizens Brigade!! The humor is so clever and quick...It's just some of the best comedy out there...I personally feel that season 1 was the funniest, but by all means, check out the other 2 seasons too! Don't Think.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: it's about time!
Review: ... this is some seriously messed-up comedy folks. i think the comparisons to mr. show are certainly warranted. both follow a sort of surreal stream of consciousness from one unrelated sketch to the other until they are all tied together at the end. both were the funniest things on TV while they had their respective runs. why comedy central pulled the plug on it, i'll never know. did people not watch it? did they not get it? i don't know. i just hope they release season two as well.

peer into the bucket of truth, people. if you dare.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: No shooting in the gun circle, please!!!
Review: The wait is over! The sketch comedy sensation Upright Citizens Brigade is not for the weak, however. Unlike many comedy series, their humor isn't necessarily based on current events, or reality for that matter. Each episode has a theme that weaves in and out of each skit (or "MINI-MOVIE" as I like to refer to it!) that builds to a peak at the end of the 30 minute episode - it is guaranteed to shock the pants off of you!!

But don't just take my word for it. Trotter, Adair, Colby, and Antoine want you to see it for yourself. And when you do see it, you'll never see things quite the same way again!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hilarious, unique sketch comedy from a Chicago improv group!
Review: The Upright Citizens' Brigade was formed in Chicago during the mid-90s by a handful of ImprovOlympic vets: Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, and Horatio Sanz. Sanz soon departed for the Second City and, subsequently, Saturday Night Live and the rest of the UCB departed for New York. After making a triumphant appearance at the Aspen Comedy Festival, Comedy Central gave the four the opportunity to create a sketch comedy show. And what a show they came up with! Using the long-form improv technique developed by Second City/Committee alum & ImprovOlympic co-founder Del Close known as "the Harold" as a template, the troupe developed a program in which individual, surrealist sketches eventually link up, overlap, and cross-refernce one another. The show is linked together under the guise of all the sketches being acts of chaos perpetarted on an unsuspecting public by an underground group known as the Upright Citizens Brigade (they even include real-life hidden camera pranks played on the public as end-credit cookies). The show is very funny and definitely one-of-a-kind. Comedy Central gave it, I believe, three seasons before pulling the plug. Since the show's demise, Poehler has become a regular on Saturday Night Live (with ex-UCB member Sanz) and the others have been seen in quest shots on dozens of comedy shows and a variety of films (most recently, Walsh played one of Luke Wilson's office buddies in "Old School" and Roberts popped up as a cheer coach in "Bring It On").


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