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Eating Garbage While Watching The Phantom Menace 13 Times!

By Mark

UCB Superstar Chris Gethard recalls fond memories of working at a movie theater in today’s edition of his Hump Day Stories. He reminisces about eating garbage, watching The Phantom Menace 13 times, Inspector Gadget Cut-Outs, movie theater cliques, and knife fights.

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Say Hello to Jake!

By Mark

Earlier today I forewarned the addition of new writers to this site. The rumors were true. As of today our good friend Jake Grate will be contributing to the site with blogs and news and whatnot.

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UCBComedy.com Launches, Funny Videos Guaranteed!

By Mark

The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre has launched their video website at UCBcomedy.com to show off mostly hilarious videos, posted by various sketch groups, on a daily basis. All videos are selected to be put up, so the quality over quantity factor is in effect here.

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Website Updates! [For Your Pleasure]!

By Mark

Everyone loves updates! Today this site has received the following totally new and totally rad features! Sections for Hall of Fame, Cartoons, All About Mark, and ‘What I’ve Been Reading’.

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Top 5 Goats, by Paul Scheer!

By Mark

Paul Scheer (of Human Giant fame) has released his annual list of top 5 goats. (Courtesy of a UCB e-mail)
Top 5 Goats of 2007
5. Dairy Goats
4. Pygmy Goats
3. Boer Goats
2. Nigerian Dwarf Goats
1. Mountain Goats

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The Colbert Report at UCB!

By Mark

The Colbert Report was performed live at the UCB last night. Of course I didn’t get tickets, so I wasn’t in attendance. However, one person on the internet was at least, and here is a great in depth review of the evening, of how a live tv show goes when it is performed without any set, equipment, cameras, crew.

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Whining Gets You Results!

By Mark

Crybabies always get their way. So I have set it up that you don’t need to have an account to post comments now. You can still make an account, which any purist will want to do, to save yourself those precious 6 seconds every time you comment. But for the rest of you lazy bums, you can go ahead and comment without an account.

In the meantime, I would like to extend a warm welcome to our spam overlords.

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Mark Hambly Writes Review, Gets Laid.

By Mark

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AP - Internet sensation Mark Hambly has been featured today on popular NYC comedy blog The Apiary with an on point and in depth review of The Onion Movie.  Hundreds of smokin’ hot babes instantly swarmed all over Mr. Hambly when the news spread. “It’s cool that people get to read my dumb review,” stated Hambly “but what’s really awesome is all the sex.”

Here is the review: http://www.theapiary.org/archives/2008/07/reviews_and_app_8.html

Mark @ July 11, 2008