{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Matt Besser: Improv, UCB and Stand Up Comedy","description":"Matt Besser&amp;nbsp;was one of the four co-founders (along with Amy Poehler) of the&amp;nbsp;Upright Citizen's Brigade, which not only had a Comedy Central show, but was the first improv comedy theater in NYC, and included folks like Adam McKay (Anchorman, Talladega Nights, etc.), Armando Diaz. Before that he trained at&amp;nbsp;iO (Chicago)&amp;nbsp;with&amp;nbsp;Charna Halpern&amp;nbsp;and Del Close, and was part of the improv group The Family. Matt also has done stand up comedy (longer than improv!) and has a podcast called&amp;nbsp;Improv For Humans. You can download&amp;nbsp;his comedy albums for just $1.99 each here. Also, he just finished co-writing&amp;nbsp;The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy improvisation Manual.\n","author_name":"Comedy Pros","author_url":"http:\/\/comedypros.libsyn.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/2464260\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/6108661"}