query: original_network upright citizens brigade
supports: Horacio Sanz (born June 4, 1969), better known by his stage name Horatio Sanz, is a Chilean-born American actor and comedian, best known as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" from 19982006. The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is headquartered in the Comcast Building (formerly known as the GE Building) at Rockefeller Center in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at Universal City Plaza), Chicago (at the NBC Tower) and soon in Philadelphia at Comcast Innovation and Technology Center. The network is part of the Big Three television networks. NBC is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, which was originally created in 1956 for its then-new color broadcasts and became the network's official emblem in 1979. Saturday Night Live (abbreviated as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest (who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast) and features performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show. The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over a land area of just , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment, its fast pace defining the term "New York minute". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Matthew Gregory "Matt" Besser (born September 22, 1967) is an American actor and comedian best known as one of the four founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch comedy troupe, who had their own show on Comedy Central from 1998-2000. He currently hosts the improvisation-based podcast "Improv4humans" on the Earwolf podcasting network. John William "Will" Ferrell (born July 16, 1967) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. He first established himself in the mid-1990s as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live", and has subsequently starred in comedy films such as "" (2004), "" (2006), "Step Brothers" (2008), "The Other Guys" (2010) and "" (2013), all but one of which he co-wrote with his comedy partner Adam McKay. The two also founded the comedy website Funny or Die in 2007. Other films roles include "Elf", "Old School" (both 2003), "Blades of Glory" (2007), and the animated films "Megamind" (2010) and "The Lego Movie" (2014). The Upright Citizens Brigade is an improvisational and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago 's ImprovOlympic in 1990 . The original incarnation of the group consisted of Matt Besser , Amy Poehler , Ian Roberts , and Matt Walsh , Adam McKay , Rick Roman , Horatio Sanz and Drew Franklin , whose picture is the UCB logo . Other early members included Neil Flynn , Armando Diaz , and Rich Fulcher . In 2013 , Besser , Roberts and Walsh wrote The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual . Chicago (or ), officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States, and the fifth-most populous city in North America. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, and the county seat of Cook County. The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S. Amy Poehler (born September 16, 1971) is an American actress, comedian, director, producer, voice artist and writer. After studying improv at Chicago's Second City and ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s, she went to New York City in 1996 to become part of the improvisational comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade. The group's act became a half-hour sketch comedy series on Comedy Central in 1998. Along with other members of the comedy group, Poehler was a founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Rich Fulcher (born 18 November 1968) is an American comedian and author based in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his roles in the British comedy series "The Mighty Boosh" and as Edward Sheath in the American series "Jon Benjamin Has a Van". He also makes appearances in Noel Fielding's more recent show, "Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy". His other appearances include "Snuff Box" alongside Matt Berry and "Unnatural Acts" with Julian Barratt and Fielding of "The Mighty Boosh". Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, comedian, and actor. McKay served as head writer for the NBC sketch comedy series "Saturday Night Live" for two seasons. He directed "" (2004), "" (2006), "Step Brothers" (2008), "The Other Guys" (2010), and "" (2013). McKay has a creative partnership with actor Will Ferrell, with whom he co-wrote all except one of these films. Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio or visual medium such as radio and television. Often sketches are first improvised by the actors and written down based on the outcome of these improv sessions; however, such improvisation is not necessarily involved in sketch comedy. Richard "Rick" Roman (19661992) was an actor and improvisational comedian from Philadelphia. While attending Temple University, Roman began his career in comedy partnering with Paul F. Tompkins in Philadelphia at The Comedy Works. The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy troupe featuring comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding. Developed from three stage shows and a six-episode radio series, it has since spawned a total of 20 television episodes for BBC Three which aired from 2003 to 2007, and two live tours of the UK, as well as two live shows in the United States. The first television series is set in a zoo owned by Bob Fossil, the second in a flat and the third in a second hand shop in Dalston called Nabootique. Vince and Howard run the shop and Naboo owns it. Matthew Charles "Matt" Berry (born 2 May 1974) is a BAFTA award-winning English actor, writer, and musician. Berry is perhaps best known for his acting role as Douglas Reynholm in "The IT Crowd" from 2007 until the final episode in 2013. He is also well known for his appearances in "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace", "The Mighty Boosh", "Snuff Box", and "The Wrong Door". He plays Beef in "House of Fools" and the title character in Channel 4 sitcom "Toast of London". He also starred in and composed . Comedy Central is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom. The channel carries comedy programming, in the form of both original and syndicated series and stand-up comedy specials, as well as feature films. Neil Richard Flynn (born November 13, 1960) is an American actor and comedian, known for his role as Janitor on the NBC/ABC medical comedy-drama "Scrubs". He currently portrays Mike Heck on the ABC sitcom "The Middle". In many of his acting roles, he has portrayed a police officer. Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the fifth-most populous city in the United States, with an estimated population of 1,567,442 and more than 6 million in the seventh-largest metropolitan statistical area, . Philadelphia is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valleya region located in the Northeastern United States at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers with 7.2 million people residing in the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.
candidates: bbc three channel 4 city comcast comedy central four nbc nbcuniversal one ten
answer: comedy central