Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

Coffee dates are the worn-in blue jeans of the dating world: about as unoriginal as a third date at a sushi bar, but still used as the comfortable, familiar fallback of choice for an outing you've been on more times you care to admit. You (and the person you're meeting) can do better. Los Angeles has other, sometimes just-as-affordable locales to get to know a potential new paramour. Read More

In this SplitSider interview with John Ross Bowie, we discuss how sleeping on floors and playing with shitty ska bands prepared him for life as a comedian. Read More

IFC has greenlit original scripted comedy series The Birthday Boys, a sketch comedy series executive produced by Bob Odenkirk and Ben Stiller. Read More

20th Century Fox has set Happy Endings star Damon Wayans Jr. and New Girl’s Jake Johnson to star in Let’s Be Cops, a comedy that Luke Greenfield will direct. Read More

Sunday night, Philipps broke out her improv skills with Julie Bowen for pal Martha Plimpton's "A Is For" benefit, which champions women's reproductive rights. Read More

Congratulations to UCBT's Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson whose 'Broad City' has been picked up by Comedy Central! Read More

The Upright Citizens Brigade is presenting shows at this year's SXSW. Read More

Lena Dunham was the guest monologuist at a special benefit performance of ASSSSCAT 3000. Read More

Comic Pete Holmes to Host TBS Late-Night Series From EP Conan O'Brien Read More

The cable-network home to Conan has ordered 16 episodes of a late-night series starring comedian Pete Holmes Read More

Actor-comedian Moshe Kasher has been cast opposite Rob Corddry and Mason Cook in ABC’s comedy pilot Spy, about Tim (Corddry), a well-intentioned father of a highly intelligent and verbal son (Cook) who inadvertently takes a job at the Secret Service in order to prove himself a worthy father. Read More

Because we are here to help, we made for you a list of some of the best comedy books -- broken down into memoirs, humor, history, and fiction -- that would be right at home on any comedy lover's shelf (or on your "E-reader"). Read More

June Diane Raphael is set to topline ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot Pulling, based on the praised 2006 British series Read More

Actor-singer Joey McIntyre has been cast in CBS/Sony TV single-camera comedy pilot The McCarthys. Also added to the pilot, written by Brian Gallivan, directed by Fred Savage and executive produced by Will Gluck, is Jessica Chaffin, joining previously cast Jacki Weaver, Jake Lacy and Jack McGee. Read More

Los Angeles is home to a bounty of stand-up, improv and sketch comedy spaces, be they iconic venues boasting famous faces or intimate rooms modestly perched on a quiet side street. While the rest of the city prides in taking themselves too seriously, there exists a community committed to chortle. Here are nine of L.A.'s best comedy clubs. Read More

USA has given a pilot presentation order to a single-camera comedy written by and starring Upright Citizens Brigade alums Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair, the duo behind NBC’s Best Friends Forever. Read More

Lauren Lapkus plays Melissa, Jane’s always-on-call friend in NBC pilot "Joe, Joe & Jane." Read More

One night last week, I caught a double bill of King of Kong: The Unauthorized Musical—which needs to be seen to be believed—and True Hustle, the one-woman show about a fresh L.A. fish who lands a gig as a talent coordinator at a porn company. Both are edgy and uncompromising in their own unique ways. Read More

Who are the other young, funny creators that need a shot? Some of the names we came up with you see every week on TV. Some you've probably never heard of. All of them are doing something you're going to want to get in on now, so you can say you were there before the Emmy buzz Read More

Andre Braugher and Chelsea Peretti cast in Mike Schur’s cop pilot. Read More