ASSSSCAT
1996-present · New York / Los Angeles
Also known as ASSSSCAT 3000, Asssscat
UCB's flagship weekly show — a celebrity monologist tells true stories and UCB all-stars improvise scenes off them. Longest-running improv show in the world.
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- Started 1996 at KGB Bar in NYC; moved to Solo Arts, then UCB's own theaters.
- Named for a nonsense code word the UCB four used after sketch shows ('asscat').
- Structurally identical to Armando but with rotating celebrity monologists (Robin Williams, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Mark Hamill, Kumail Nanjiani, Charles Barkley).
- Regulars in early years: Stephen Colbert, Adam McKay, Tina Fey, Andy Richter, Horatio Sanz.
- The show that made UCB a destination and long-form a Manhattan industry.
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