If I was the UCB 4 I'd beg Astronomy Club and Michael Hartney to take the reins in NYC and start a non-profit talent incubator. If I was a famous UCB alum I'd pledge to help that new thing get off the ground.
Child (due date 7/15/21): "During COVID when you lost your job teaching improv at UCB and you impregnated Mom, were you scared about $$$?"
Me: "No! I tweeted my
@LinkedIn
and the internet got me a new job!"
Child: "That was a deeply irresponsible plan."
@GOPChairwoman
@realDonaldTrump
Is this an argument for expanded border security, or an argument that it's working well at current levels? Is this an argument? Also, will Mexico pay for this argument?
So I guess thank you for allowing me to get the unemployment I paid into (though not the sick pay I accrued) and using the $ to help the company survive in a way where I'll no longer have a job? Yes cool
I know normal is still a long way off, but last night I had a dumb nightmare about my status in the NYC improv community and it left me feeling hopeful.
Was teaching 6 class sessions a week at UCB. Dream job. Hope to have it again some day. Didn't get the email about layoffs, worried that as a teacher I'm in a limbo where my (pending) unemployment claim will be rejected. (Could be so much worse, lucky for so many reasons, etc.)
UCB house improv team auditions this week. Please know that I am rooting for all of you! Unless your name comes between Phillips and Poehler alphabetically.
We binged
@CallTheMidwife1
during the pandemic, and
@kissmeimkeight
warned me over and over again that "it won't actually happen that quickly." Late last night she pushed out baby Clementine in approximately half an episode.
Officially engaged to
@kissmeimkeight
! Love her so much, and even though neither of us are traditionalists and we'd long-since agreed to spend the rest of our lives together, this feels very nice.
All it took for me to finish the rough draft of a novel was losing my job and being forced to stay inside worrying about disease and the imminent end of American democracy!
Feels gross to mourn a job when so many people have died, but it's been exactly 1 year since I had to tell my in-progress improv 201 class that the UCB Training Center was shutting down immediately. Final day of the best job ever. Not including my current one "tiktok influencer"
@mflynnJR
Take your family out to a nice pizza dinner, they deserve it! (Check Yelp for insane, irresponsible sex dungeon conspiracy theories first, obviously!)
I guess all you students, teachers and performers threatening to stop working with UCB don't understand that they don't NEED any of you! Even with 100% turnover they'll be able to continue as a brand new, much much shittier organization
Exactly 5 years since I was bumped up to UCB Harold Night so it's fun timing that I can now publicly announce I've been invited to join everybody's favorite new weekend team None Of This Is A Thing Anymore
Squeezed in one last unfriending before the end of Facebook! No,
@davidhogg111
using profanity to describe legislators who are scared of the NRA doesn't make him a "bad role model." Go fuck yourself. (With a gun, if that's what you're in to.)
I'm a former UCB teacher/performer who was troubled by some serious institutional problems, but rarely spoke up or took concrete action. I'm looking forward to the better thing that comes next, and helping however I can.
My girlfriend is 41 weeks pregnant and I think the baby might be waiting for my tiktok about Taco Bell to get 1,000,000 likes (currently at 996,000), how are you doing
Somebody please convince a Republican billionaire to finance a right wing sketch comedy show starring Dennis Miller, Rob Schneider and Victoria Jackson.
When I started cancer treatment 14 years ago the steroids made me go temporarily insane. Fortunately my mother stood up to me and stopped me from inciting racist violence or launching nukes. Thanks, Mom!
I have job alerts for "improv" set up on most of the job sites, and this is one of the very first times something's come up that wasn't an abbreviation for "improvement."
Maybe my last trip into Manhattan before the baby comes? 1st
@DosToros
burrito in 16 months. Did not disappoint. Probably shouldn't have swallowed it whole, though.
@realDonaldTrump
Workers first sounds great! So we're limiting CEO pay? Keeping safety regulations in place? Maybe even guaranteeing affordable health care?
Apologies in advance, there's a decent chance I'm going to send you a LinkedIn request tomorrow. Don't want to rush into this. Going to sleep on whether or not I want a source of income, then make my decision in the morning.
One of the bravest things I do is continue to use my cellphone during the pre-preview commercials at a movie theater even though they ask you to put your phone away
Qualify for COVID vaccination based on my BMI. Curious how they're going to verify this at the testing site. The universe has an inexhaustible supply of tiny humiliations.
As the weather gets worse your friends will suggest indoor gatherings.
The way to show people you love them is to help them stay safe.
You're not being paranoid, you're being a decent human being.
Abbi & Ilana are NYC comedy community legends now, but many people overlook their contributions to "residual checks coincidentally arriving in my mailbox on a day when I'm stressed about being totally broke."
When live improv comedy returns I accept that I'll no longer have a teaching job or a house team slot but is there any way I can still get an unlimited supply of energetic young creative people to sponge motivation from vampire-style
As of this fall I’ll have been doing improv for 25 years. My project to celebrate it is even more extravagantly dumb and ill-conceived than my 20-year thing (The 1000 Scenes Project).
#notabit
I've accidentally been added to a random family's Thanksgiving weekend logistics email, and it has more than 50 recipients. Should I reply all and say I'm so grateful that everyone involved got vaccinated and tested?
One year later, an unresolved question I have about UCB NY officially shutting down is "was it truly a coincidence that it happened the day after 4/20"
When you're desperately single and the ex who broke your heart has done a lot of work on themselves and you tell them you'd love to give it another try and they say "I'm not ready to date anyone yet, but I'll let you know!" and you see them on Bumble
If the job you loved no longer exists and you have no idea what you're going to do for a living on the other side of this, have you considered becoming a life coach who tells me what I should do and then everything works out great for me and I don't worry anymore?
"We cannot allow volcanoes to become the new 'religion' guiding every policy decision or become the organizing feature of our government." -Mike Pompeiio
STOP making yourself feel worthless in comparison to others! You're the best YOU there is! Unless there's someone who's identical to you, except... better? If that's the case... honestly not sure what you should do. Sorry! Shouldn't have chimed in. Good luck! This was a bad tweet
Sorry to disappoint everybody, but this is all yet another con job. He will "get very sick" and then "die" and then "rise from the dead" and "usher in the Rapture"
YOU FOOLS, your vision boards WON'T WORK unless you turn them into NFTs. Manifesting Abundance from the Universe requires the certainty of the Blockchain!