ASSSSCAT LA, Live and LIVESTREAMED!

Saturday, November 15, 2025 – 8:30 pm LA – FRANKLIN ASSSSCAT is UCB’s signature improv show that has played to critical acclaim and sold out audiences across the country. Cast: Joe Wengert, Alex Song-Xia, Kimia Behpoornia, Alex Fernie, Aman Adumer, Jiavani, Patrick McDonald Monologist: Yazmin Monet Watkins What is ASSSSCAT? It starts with a group of…

Pinot Noir

Saturday, November 15, 2025 – 10:30 pm LA – FRANKLIN A gripping improvised crime story fueled by celebrity tales and a shitload of wine. Cynicism, fatalism, moral ambiguity — these traits form the bedrock of my favorite genre of storytelling: Noir. There’s something about a tired detective, searching desperately for clues (and meaning), that we can…

FRIDAY FIX! JV & Bangarang, Live and LIVESTREAMED!

Friday, November 14, 2025 – 8:30 pm LA – FRANKLIN UCB’s weekly improv double header! A night of improv comedy featuring two of LA’s top teams performing back-to-back. Get your FIX every FRIDAY. Featuring: JV creates an improvised world from a single audience suggestion! JV members have acted/written on: Crazy Ex Girlfriend, The Bear, What We…

Baby Wants Candy: Musical Improv, Live and LIVESTREAMED!

Friday, November 14, 2025 – 7:00 pm LA – FRANKLIN The world’s most popular completely improvised full band musical! Baby Wants Candy is a critically acclaimed comedy ensemble with casts in Chicago, LA, NY and an international touring company. The audience shouts out a title of a musical that has never been performed before. Accompanied by…

Musical Improv Jam

Friday, November 28, 2025 – 5:30 pm LA – FRANKLIN A free musical improv jam. Musical improv is improv with the added conventions of musical theatre, meaning that your improvised scenes turn to songs, and you make up all the sung lyrics and choreography along with the scene. Whether you’ve never tried musical improv before, are…

Musical Improv Jam

Friday, November 14, 2025 – 5:30 pm LA – FRANKLIN A free musical improv jam. Musical improv is improv with the added conventions of musical theatre, meaning that your improvised scenes turn to songs, and you make up all the sung lyrics and choreography along with the scene. Whether you’ve never tried musical improv before, are…

Spank: Woody Fu – One Man John Wick

Monday, October 27, 2025 – 5:30 pm LA – FRANKLIN See a brand 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 bad…

Maude x Betty Wild Card: One Man’s Trash

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 – 8:30 pm LA – FRANKLIN Maude Night boasts brand new material by UCB’s house sketch teams every month. Come see top-notch sketch comedy featuring two teams of UCB’s finest writers and performers. —– Featuring: One Man’s Trash — Complete List of Maude Teams THE FAMILY BUSINESS PERFORMERS: Ryan Coil, Jake Delaney,…

Play by Play, Live and LIVESTREAMED!

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 – 10:00 pm LA – FRANKLIN The art of long-form improv ruined/explained by live commentary. Imagine if long-form improv were a sport. Now imagine that this sport had two live commentators. And now imagine that these two commentators were as much of an improv nerd as the people doing it — naming…