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“Upright Citizen’s Brigade” is dangerous sketch comedy that
airs weekly on Comedy Central. At the beginning of their third
season, the show is quickly becoming an underground success.
In a recent exclusive interv iew. The Battalion spoke with the
troupe about their secret plans to destroy the world.
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• Do you guys ever do pranks for fun—when you’re
• not even recording them?
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• Are you guys on the set right now ?
No, we’re actually in Upright Citizen’s Brigade HQ, 10.(K)0
miles below the surface ofthe earth.
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inal everyday people mid some days we dress up as one of our
freakish characters. The other day I was dressed up in full hock
ey regalia cause 1 was a new character that was a fairy liockey
player instead of a fairy godmother and I go up to guy s who are
in times of need, w ho need to go for it and 1 give them bee# and
I get them to chug it so they can go for it. like asking a girl out or
asking her to go to bed w ith him. So I was going around differ
ent places on the New York University campus and almosfevery-
where I went, as soon as I w alked in, people were like “hey man,
I like your show.” So 1 was literally having to sneak upon peo
ple and scare the s—t out of them to get the desired effect.
I think we all do pranks spontaneously that have no pur
pose, like yelling in a movie theater or something, but we try to
record all our pranks. Pranks are really hard to record because
people aren't in on it obviously, they aren’t making conditions
optimal, so they tc not standing in the right light or there might
be a radio playing really loud or they might not be speaking up
very much. It takes a lot ol diltereni conditions for the prank to
be recorded well.
One time we pranked Vanilla lee on the tour ofhn new speed-
metal baikCyWe went dressed as "The Tittee Brothers ” andj
brought a!< mg a manager and a publicist. All four of us w ent hack-;
stage to talk to him after the show and we were totally, messing H
with him, telling him he should open for us on tour and stuff. It
was really funny, we had a Vanilla Ice doll ifom the ’80s there
and we got him to sign it. He Was reaflv embarrassed about it. But
the light was horrible and it didn’t come out at all. All we had was
the audio from it. It was pretty disappointing.
Q
Does every one you prank have to sign off on it?
Yes. Riglit Afterwards.
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• So everyone knows afterwards that it was a
• prank?
Yeah. Some people get outraged. We’ve had guys readv to
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Do you guys do pranks every week?
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• Have you had any interesting viewer reactions?
Oh yeah, we’ve increased our pranks like three fold what it
used to be so it’s at least a prank a week.
We just got some photos in the mail today about our second
episode this season where we had this scene about the mafia do-
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nating sperm to people against their will. We had people leaving
free cups of sperm all over their towns. One kid sent up pics of
him leaving sperm all around Santa Cruz — at statues and stores^
and display windows.
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• Is the RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan going to make
• any more appearances?
Yeakj we’re always asking the Wu-Tang.tocome back. We’re
going to have a final «pis«xle. a Thunderball episode w here we
were going to ask any of them who want to come, they, always
seem to have fun.
* So Thuaderbail is an old skit you guys did?
Yeah, we actually did it a long time ago in i hieago. We were
going to do it as a show pur first season, but that movie BASEket-
ball came out and we didn’t want people to think we stole their
idea, so we put it off. It’s a lot different from />’ I.SV-.C ihail except
in the idea that it combines a lot of different sports. I hundeiball
is more violent and it’s more like a game of cock lighting rather
than some fun game that becomes the national pastime. For us
it’s more like tins underground thing that people hav e io go to spe
cial places to v ievv. so it’s kind of a different feel.
budget look great. Compared to major network shows, our bud
get is nothing. But compared to other shows on Comedy Central,
yve have a huge budget. So it’s kind of a relative thing on TV. We
havespecial effects and stuff and we’ve been lucky with that. It
hasn’t been a radically bigger budget this season, though.
Q
Do you feel you guys are a lot more successful and
are more known?
I think we have a hard-core cult following from people who
are really into the chaos, underground, ‘Illuminati’ side of it and
1 wish more people would be into it because it’s a good sketch
show. That's our focus this year, to tell people this is a sketch show,
not some crazy science-fiction show, it’s just good sketch. We
want to appeal to people who are 40 [years old] as well as people
who are in college.
Q
Do you guys have any projects outside the show?
Q
• Have you guys ever participated in Improv
• festivals?
We’ve participated in the Chicago Improv festiv al every year
ihev’ve done it. We’ve done a lot of improv festivals.
Q
• It looks like “Upright Citizen’s Brigade” got a
# bigger budget for your second season.
Is that the case?
Well, I have to give credit to our directors for making a small
We have our own Website, uprighteiti/ens.org. vv Inch isn't the
Comedy Central one. We want our Website to be a viable source
of entertainment in itself instead of something that just services
the 'TV show as an information site. We want it to he something
for people to hang out and have fun with.
We have Bians for putting a lot more video, audio mate
rial on It. Of course we have our movie, book and CD-ROM
ideas hut we don’t have time to work on all that while we’re
doing die TV show.
Do you think Upright Citizen’s Brigade would
ever come to College Station?
We’re going to tour soon, probably late April or early May. If
people at Texas A&M are interested, get people to contact our
Website or Comedy Central’s Website and request us and we’ll
come there.
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