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What Upright Citizens Brigade’s Arrival in Austin Means for the Local Comedy Scene

In recent years, Austin has become a bastion for edgy, right-leaning comedians like Joe Rogan and Tony Hinchcliffe—but a revered comedy school with roots in Chicago and New York could bring significant change to the capital city’s “anti-woke” comedyscape. Arguably one of the most famous comedy institutions in the world, Upright Citizens Brigade was originally started by the likes of Amy Poehler and Matt Besser in Chicago in the ’90s and has sinc…
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Austin Monthly Magazine broke the news in on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.
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