Matt Besser Explains UCB Delays, Wants Your Songs

The Upright Citizens Brigade's Matt Besser has a new MySpace page, which he promises to pack full of new exclusive videos such as the Catching Friends webisodes, where MySpace Tom explains how to attract friends to your profile by lying about your interests. More importantly, he's provided information on the status of the second season of the UCB's sketch comedy show, and the entirely improvised UCB movie, Wild Girls Gone. Both of these projects have been in limbo for a long, long time, so this should cause a giant sigh of relief for fans of the alternative comedy troupe.

Comedy Central will release Upright Citizens Brigade: The Complete Second Season this fall, and Besser has put out an APB for fan-created music to be part of the DVD extras. The new collection comes not a moment too soon, since the first season has been out for over three years. Presumably the third and final season won't take nearly as long.

He also explains that Wild Girls Gone, which was filmed about a billion years ago, has been in a long, painful editing process to whittle down the enormous amounts of footage they shot, and could finally see a release as early as this summer. The film stars Besser, Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts, and Amy Poehler in a story of a small-town dance contest that gets mixed up with a start-up amateur porn video. It also features a laundry list of up-and-comers that UCB Theatre visitors should be more than familiar with, including Rob Riggle, Andrew Daly, Rob Huebel, Danielle Schneider, John Ross Bowie, and Jamie Denbo. There's no word on theatrical distribution, but Besser says they're prepared to sell the DVD directly through their website.

Besser will also be seen alongside Chris Kattan and Brian Posehn later this year in Undead or Alive, playing the sheriff in an Old West town plagued by zombies.