Wednesday, June 25, 2025 – 7:00 pm LA – FRANKLIN Big laughs from the Midwest’s best. Cook County Social Club was named “Best Improv Group” by the Chicago Reader and a “Legendary improv team” by the Chicago Tribune. Their sold out show ran for over seven years at iO Chicago where their raucous, kinetic style of…
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 – 8:30 pm LA – FRANKLIN Two teams of LA’s funniest people face off in a battle of the brains judge by a world-renowned expert. This month’s topic: Drugs! Meet some of the world’s most interesting people as the hottest comics, improvisers, and media personalities in town face off in a battle…
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 – 7:00 pm LA – FRANKLIN Original, comedic, one-act plays from a rotating cast of beloved UCB all-stars! Legitimate Goddamn Theatre is a showcase of short comedic plays, experimental performance, and other miscellaneous theatrical ephemera – a night of UCB’s funniest stars sinking their teeth into one-acts, monologues, and even the occasional…
Monday, June 2, 2025 – 5:30 pm LA – FRANKLIN See a brand new new sketch or solo show birthed right before your eyes that is auditioning for a run at the UCB theater. It’s a show where we let sketch teams and solo performers try some shit out! Some will be good, some will be…
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 – 7:00 pm LA – FRANKLIN An all trans/non-binary sketch showcase! We put together a night of the best sketch comedians in Los Angeles and by sheer coincidence, everyone on the lineup is transgender! Who could have guessed?!?! Maybe trans people do have a biological advantage… at being hilarious! Join us for…
Friday, July 11, 2025 – 7:30 pm LA – ANNEX A 1990s first date goes sideways in the most NSFW way possible. Glen David Gold is an international best-selling novelist and memoirist now, but in 1991 he was an unpublished, recently-dumped guy with a motorcycle and a vow to make his next girlfriend’s life a living…
Friday, August 1, 2025 – 10:00 pm LA – FRANKLIN A reality dating show live on stage. Comedians Monika Smith & Eli Newell coach one (un)lucky person through three ACTUAL blind dates live on stage. What could go wrong? Real People. Real Dates. Real Awkward. Hosted by: Monika Smith & Eli Newell, 4 daters TBD —…
Wednesday, July 30, 2025 – 7:00 pm LA – FRANKLIN An improvised narrative musical set anywhere but here and anytime but now. The teachers and directors of UCB’s Musical Improv Program are coming together to perform improvised narrative musicals. Can we do the thing we are teaching others to do? Come find out! Featuring: Tara Copeland,…
Thursday, June 19, 2025 – 8:30 pm LA – FRANKLIN One night, four teams, all Black improvisers. Come watch 4 teams, made up of some of the funniest performers, doing exactly what the ancestors always wanted for the future… for Black people to do improv comedy! Hosted by Ronnie Adrian Featuring: Moni Oyedepo, Lou Wilson, Monique Moses,…
Thursday, June 12, 2025 – 10:00 pm LA – FRANKLIN Comedy closure your ex will never give you. A comedy show full of sketches, audience breakup stories, giveaways to help you bounce back, and PROOF that you won your last breakup. Hold that grudge and put on another coat of waterproof mascara, because we’re giving you…