Members
The original members of the group included Chad Carter, Danielle Schneider, Dannah Feinglass, Jackie Clarke, Owen Burke, Paul Scheer, Rob Huebel and Rob Riggle. The group's popularity at the UCBT was a springboard to comedy careers for its members: Rob Riggle, a Marine who served in both Kosovo and Afghanistan, has been a cast member on Saturday Night Live and a correspondent on The Daily Show. He has made guest appearances on numerous comedy programs such as Human Giant, Arrested Development and The Office. Rob Huebel has had guest spots on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Arrested Development, and was a producer for Michael Moore's The Awful Truth, but is perhaps best known as the Inconsiderate Cell Phone Man from in-cinema advertising.. In addition, he is a core member in MTV's Human Giant along with Scheer and Aziz Ansari.
Paul Scheer appeared weekly on VH1's Best Week Ever, and can be seen in School for Scoundrels and was a guest on the Jeff Goldblum TV drama Raines. He starred with Respecto castmate Rob Huebel on Human Giant, a sketch comedy series on MTV and is currently one of the stars of the new FX comedy The League. In 2011 he created the Adult Swim series series "NTSF:SD:SUV::" which he stars in with along with Respecto member Rob Riggle.
Dannah Feinglass was a cast member on MADtv in 2000-2001 and had a popular celebrity interview segment on TBS's "Burly TV" called Movie Junky, in which she frequently conducted interviews in costume. Feinglass does voice-over work on several cartoon shows, such as voicing the titular character on the PBS series WordGirl. She also wrote and co-starred in Amy Poehler's animated series The Mighty B! on Nickelodeon. Owen Burke is a writer and producer for HBO's Funny or Die Presents and is also recognizable for his appearance as the "Dancing Office Guy" in a series of Nextel commercials, and has also appeared in many programs on Comedy Central and VH1. He also wrote the book The UCB Theater's Guide to Improvisation.
Jackie Clarke co-starred in the Nick at Nite animated series Glenn Martin, DDS and was a frequent co-host on several radio shows on K-ROCK 92.3 WFNY-FM, as well as appearing as a regular commentator on several VH1 commentary programs. She has written for television programs such as Happy Endings, The Big Gay Sketch Show, and ]. Chad Carter is a television writer who has written for the animated CBS show Creature Comforts America and the ABC reality show My Kind of Town. Danielle Schneider has made appearances on Best Week Ever, MTV's Beach House, and UPN's Love Inc., and co-starred with UCBT founders Matt Walsh and Ian Roberts in the improvised comedy series Players on Spike TV.
Most of the group also appeared in the 2005 SXSW Award-winning comedy film Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, an improvised film about the world of paintball featuring The Daily Show's Rob Corddry. Most of the group also held guest writing spots and made appearances on the Comedy Central debate show parody Crossballs in 2004.
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