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Comedian Lou Perez gives Align his eyewitness account of 'The Death and Rebirth of Comedy.'

Photo Illustration: Araya Diaz/Getty Images With live revenue decimated, The Groundlings, Upright Citizens Brigade and Second City — now owned by game mogul Strauss Zelnick — forged new paths to varying degrees of success. In July, The Second City was facing an existential crisis. Its namesake improv theaters in Toronto, Los Angeles and Chicago had shuttered amid the COVID-19 pandemic, effectively eliminating all revenue overnight. Meanwhile, former members were taking to social media to call out the storied comedy brand — where Tina Fey, Eugene Levy, Steve Carell and Jordan Peele, amo...

Amy Poehler Is Into What Gen Z Is Selling Talk By David Marchese No matter the degree of mischievous glee or righteous anger, there’s always something comforting about Amy Poehler’s work, a sense that it comes from a place of empathy, of kindness. And even though its indignation runs pretty hot, her new Netflix movie “Moxie” is suffused with the same underlying sense of goodness. (Poehler directed and co-stars in the film, based on Jennifer Mathieu’s young-adult novel about high school students’ turbulent feminist awakening, which premieres March 3.) Poehler’...

LOS ANGELES — The Upright Citizens Brigade delivered what it called “sad news” to the Los Angeles comedy scene this week. On Wednesday afternoon, founders of the sketch and improv troupe collectively known as the UCB 4 — Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh &m

The Upright Citizens Brigade delivered what it called “sad news” to the Los Angeles comedy scene this week. On Wednesday afternoon, founders of the sketch and improv troupe collectively known as the UCB 4 — Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh — announced the