Sunday Night Live

Sunday nights at the [Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre], comedy fans can pay $8 to catch the 7:30 [ASSSSCAT 3000 ](http://www.uprightcitizens.org/)show, or wait in line for a chance to get a free ticket to the 9:30 show. Last night some friends and I chose the latter. After about an hour’s wait, we were rewarded for our cheapness and patience with four complimentary tickets to the late show, which featured [Saturday Night Live](http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/)’s Amy Poehler, Horatio Sands and Seth Meyers. Other comedians associated with [Conan O’Brien](http://www.nbc.com/conan) and [The Office](http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/) rounded out the cast, entertaining the receptive audience of mostly young hipsters with nearly two hours of long-form improv.

[Rashida Jones], Office employee and daughter of Quincy, was on hand to tell stories that would serve as the springboards for the sketches. Jones somehow wove the words “fetus” and “pearls”—the audience’s suggestions—into personal anecdotes of being an over-achieving, drunk choir girl who later went on to hire the under-achieving [Nicole Richie](http://www.nicolerichie.nu/) as her first personal assistant. The ensuing skits involved lesbian condors, a dentist offering abortions, [Howie Mandel](http://www.howiemandel.com/) and, well, a bunch of other stuff that you had to be there to get.