Snap Impression

Now, don't travel back in time and spoil the new Star Wars movie for us (Hopefully Spock ends up defeating the Cylons!), but today's episode was taped while we were waiting in line early to see the film! And we couldn't ask for better guests to see the film with us - why it's Corey Brown and Sean O'Reilly. Sean is a writer performer and podcaster - he writes and performs on the UCB show Everyone's Favorite Gameshow, and also hosts the Better Than podcast and the Lost Weekend podcast! Corey is a teacher and performer at UCB and one of the hosts of their weekly improv jam! And hopefully the big question that will be answered by the end of this episode is: Will the xenomorphs be able to travel back in time to kill John Connor and defeat Darth Sidious??? Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

It's almost New Year's so it's time for resolutions and diets, so why not listen and hear about Andy's new weight loss technique, then stay for the hot impression action?! Joining us this week are the fantastic Colin O'Brien and Michael Wolf! They are both members of the UCB house sketch team OSFUG and are very funny folk! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

As is the tradition, with a slight rule change comes the dawn of a new season for Snap Impression, and we couldn't ask for better pals to chime in the start of Season 4 with than the sketch duo Girls With Brown Hair. GWBH is made up of Becky Chicoine and Sam Reece. Becky is a house actor at UCB on their sketch night, and is part of the sketch group OSFUG, which has a monthly show at the theatre's East Village location. Sam is also a member of OSFUG, and her writing has been featured on everything from Funny or Die to Splitsider.  Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

Raise your hand if you like fun. Great, now keep that hand up for the next 90 minutes of FIA (fantastic impression action)! Cause we're comin' atcha live from teh COP21 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, France, and not only will we be reporting on all the important legislation being debated here and the protests happening on the ground, but we've also got some sweet FIA from two great dudes Matt Klinman and Zack Poitras! Matt is a writer at Funny or Die, a member of the writing collective Wild, Aggressive Dog, the co-director of the monthly UCB show Sketch Cram! and performer on the UCB Harold Team Greg. He was also a former staff writer and director for Onion Digital Studios and The Onion News Network! Zack is a writer for Funny or Die as well, a contributing writer for The Onion and is a member of the sketch comedy group Pangea 3000. Zack has also appeared multiple times on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' and 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.' At the UCB, Zack is a member of the Harold

Taped two days before Thanksgiving this year at UCB East, and boy do we have a cornucopia of amazing guests on this episode! Our guest judge is Ramsey's dad Patrick Ess, and we have a bevy of great guests including Broad City-writer Naomi Ekperigin, Difficult People star Cole Escola, one of Comedy Central's Comics to Watch Frank Garcia-Hejl, and fantastic stand-up Sean Patton, who has his own Comedy Central Half Hour! Listen as these titans go head-to-head! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

It's Black Friday (the day we're taping this) and who better to wait in line for deals with than the incomparable Bowen Yang and Joel Kim Booster? Bowen is an improvisor and performer, and a member of the children's performance group The Story Pirates as well as a part of the PIT musical sketch group Pop Roulette and a co-host of the variety show Ethnic Realness with our other guest Joel! Joel himself is a stand-up, a contributor to the MTV's webseries "Decoded", Bravo's "Guide To...", and Logo's "#TheSoapBox" and Paper Magazine recently called him one of their "10 Comedians You Need to Know"! So strap yourself into your Listening Machine for some goshdamn good fun! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

It's Thanksgiving this week, but because we tape our episodes in advance, this one was recorded on Halloween, so please welcome to THE SNAP IMPRESSION SPOOKY THANKSGIVING SPECTACULAR! And joining us today are two amazingly funny dudes Dave Bluvband and Noah Forman. Both Dave and Noah are writers and performers at UCB on their house sketch and improv teams. Outside of that, Dave directs videos, makes them with his sketch group Come On Get Mad, and acts, most notably as The Human Fish on Fusion's The Chris Gethard Show. Noah is also part of The Chris Gethard Show as well, where he is executive producer and head writer! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

Like Johnny Carson once said, "That's some weird wild stuff!" Or at least Dana Carvey as Johnny Carson said that. And what was he referring to? Why today's episode of Snap Impression, taped live at UCB East on October 27th! We're joined by a panel of fantastic comedians including 2 Dope Queens' Phoebe Robinson (who you might have seen perform stand-up on Seth Meyers), as well as two of the wonderful writers from Late Night with Stephen Colbert Eric Drysdale and Ariel Dumas! And not only that, but we have on our first non-human guest host Pussy Cat, a talking cat that LOVES water! Check this shizz out, people! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

Move over, Serial! And fuck off to heaven, Sarah Koenig! Because there's a real mystery in this episode of Snap Impression, and we can only solve it with the help of our guests Rae Sanni and Maria Heinegg! Rae and Maria are both wonderful stand-ups here in New York. Not only does Rae co-host the stand-up show Loud Mouth!, but Rae and Maria together host the It's About Us podcast! And also they are amatuer sleuths as they help us figure out a season-long mystery in only one episode AND we provide closure on the mystery. Name one other podcast that boasts closure - you can't! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

Episode 69, brah! You know what that means! There were 68 previous episodes! Yeah! And to celebrate the sequentialness of the show, we make PODCAST HISTORY this week by broadcasting live from a certain fascist Asian country! And joining us are two rad dudes James III and Jon Braylock! James is an actor and comedian, a house sketch and improv performer at UCB, and he stars as Jamel in the webseries The Adventures of Jamel: Time Travelling BBoy. Jon is an actor and comedian as well, a house improviser at UCB, and you can see him in shows like The Jim Gaffigan Show and movies like The Amazing Spider-Man 2! Jon and James are also 2/3 of the podcast Black Men Can't Jump (In Hollywood)! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

Good grief? Great grief! As today we're joined by the wonderful sketch duo Good Cop Great Cop. But not only that, it's our first BLOOPER EPISODE! People love bloopers, and our show is full of 'em! They're mostly cut out, but we decided to leave 'em all in for you in this one. Hope you like it! And hope you love our guests Matt Porter and Charlie Hankin! Individually, Matt is a director and has made things for Funny or Die, Adult Swim, MTV Other and more; and Charlie is an artist and New Yorker cartoonist. Together, their sketch/video duo Good Cop Great Cop have had videos screened at SXSW, was an official selection at the New York Television Festival, and is a proud member of the Above Average network. Also their webseries New Timers is now airing on ComedyCentral.com! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

Hey rude boys! We're skanking up quite a two-tone episode today, as Ramsey and Andy and our guests are forming a brand new ska band! And who are those guests? Why the wonderful Michael Kayne and Langan Kingsley! Michael and Langan are both house performers at UCB who you can see together in the show What I Did For Love. Michael can also be seen at ASSSSCAT and Baby Wants Candy. Outside of UCB, Michael is a Creative Consultant for Billy On The Street, wrote for @midnight's pilot presentation, and his pilot Good Dads was an official selection at the New York TV Festival. Speaking of which, Langan's webseries Space Drifters was an official selection at the NYTVF as well, and her one-woman show LANGAN DICE KINGSLEY: The Dicewoman Cometh ran at UCB last year! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

Oh! Do you enjoy life and having fun? Then today's episode taped live on September 22nd at UCB East is for you! Not only do we have a friend that we seem to kind of know from Facebook, Shaun Chair, as our guest judge, but we also have four great pals on deck as contestants: actor and improvisor Jeff Hiller, a UCB house performer and actor on shows like 30 Rock and Community; Jodi Lennon, an improvisor and writer for the great Hulu show Difficult People, and Arthur Meyer and Albertina Rizzo, two hilarious dudes and writers for The Tonight Show. Like Borat said, "Hey this show is going to be fucking great!" And you know what, Borat, it was!  Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

Somebody lobster me! Even though contract disputes are causing some tension between Andy and Ramsey, we've got two wonderful guests AND an epic third round that makes the end of a Seinfeld episode look like my mommy's toilet! And those guests? Why Brandon Gardner and Chelsea Clarke! Brandon and Chelsea are two of the best improvisers the UCB has to offer. They perform on a house team every Saturday night and also host the show Improv Nerds at UCB East. And besides performing at the theatre, they are also teachers at the UCB school! What a match up! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

Snorf! What an episode today! Andy had been converted into a Christian conservative after a weekend lobotomy, but even better, we're joined by the head writer of The Daily Show Zhubin Parang and one of the best improvisers in New York Will Storie! Besides winning an Emmy or two for his writing on TDS, Zhubin's work has also been featured in McSweeney's and The Onion. And in addition to improv, Will directs shows at UCB and The PIT and acted in the Whit Stillman film Damsels in Distress. What a match-up! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

Oh blorpy! Today on the show we're having an intercast (intervention + podcast) for the Ram-man himself Ramsey who's got a REAL PROBLEM. And joining us are the wonderful Nicole Pasquale and Iliana Inocencio! Nicole is an actor and improvisor, the host of the long-running improv mash-up show Kaleidoscope, and a performer at the People's Improv Theater! Iliana is an actor and improvor too, a member of the children's theater troupe Story Pirates, and a performer as well at The PIT. Also! Nicole and Iliana make videos together as Pair of Pears! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

Another amazing episode taped live on August 25th at UCB East! And we really lucked out this time, as we've got Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers as the guest judge, so even spilling a can of soda in the first few minutes of the taping can't spoil our mood! And of course, the contestants, what can I say about the contestants besides that they are beautiful humans! We've got SNL-writer and former College Humor impresario Streeter Seidell, SNL-writer and Just for Laughs New Face Alison Rich, Seth Meyers-writer and stand-up extraordinaire Aparna Nancherla and SNL Weekend Update and awesome sketch dude Pete Schultz! A thrillride of an episode not to be missed! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

Hoagie! Andy barely got any sleep the night before taping this. Maybe you will be able to tell? Maybe not? There's a lot of barking dogs and burning buildings and feet fetishizing on today's 'sode (the cool way to say "episode"), so maybe Andy's sleep-deprived lunacy is well hidden, like a Where's Waldo of insanity. Luckily we have two awesome guests that blend right in: Matt Clevy and Hallie Haas! Matt is an actor and improvisor (and was in an episode of Andy's forthcoming webseries So You're Dying...) and a member of the NY-based sketch group Mpire Comedy. Hallie is an actor and improvisor - you can see her in the film Fort Tilden - and is a member of the UCB character team "Characters Welcome", which performs monthly at UCB East. And go see Snap Impression Live at UCB East on 9/22 at 9:30! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

Zorfy! In this episode, Ramsey has a BIG announcement to make. But who give a shizz because we've got two great guests Matt Cutler and Jeremy Bent! Matt got his MTS from "a little college in Boston" and has been a house improviser at UCB for many years. Jeremy was a member of one of the first indie improv teams in New York Thank You, Robot, and has also been a house improvisor at UCB for a long time. In fact, they both perform together every Friday night at UCB East on the team Bucky! And what a contest it is today! Also, after listening, don't forget to tweet "Please send @Burgermike to Trump University" to @nerdist!  Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!

Andy didn't have a lot of time this week because he had to go have a frustrating dinner with his parents who have lots of thoughts about how he should plan his wedding, but that means a fast-paced episode with two of our most fun guests yet, writing duo Morgan Miller and Mike Kelton! Morgan and Mike are both UCB performers on house improv teams at the theatre and both perform as part of UCB's touring company as well. In addition to that, the two make videos together as Morgan and Mike! And oh boy, even though in Andy's future he's going to have a mediocre meal at a loud midtown restaurant with his fiancee, parents, his fiancee's cousin and his parents friends from temple, at the moment of this taping, things are fun and happy and we all blaze through an amazingly fun episode! Check out the Snap Impression website and follow us on Twitter!