Mia’s Reviews > High-Status Characters: How The Upright Citizens Brigade Stormed A City, Started A Scene, And Changed Comedy Forever > Status Update

this was so interesting, crazy insane (in a good and bad way) but very interesting. the anecdotes were A++!!!

“everybody in New York fell in love with Amy Poehler.”

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High-Status Characters: How The Upright Citizens Brigade Stormed A City, Started A Scene, And Changed Comedy Forever

“the “Yes, &…” philosophy. It’s a belief that Besser, Poehler, Roberts, and Walsh wound up instilling into thousands of other performers when they got to Manhattan in 1996. They stepped onto the cruel, crowded stage of New York City, and an entire city yes-anded them back.”

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High-Status Characters: How The Upright Citizens Brigade Stormed A City, Started A Scene, And Changed Comedy Forever

“It was the winter of 1999, and Amy Poehler was in a grimy bathroom on West 22nd Street in Manhattan, pulling used condoms out of a toilet.”

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High-Status Characters: How The Upright Citizens Brigade Stormed A City, Started A Scene, And Changed Comedy Forever

Is it really the UCB origin story if nobody brings up Amy Poehler pulling condoms out of a toilet?