“The quartet are assembled in Besser and Poehler’s shared office. One wall has a poster from the Huntsville, Alabama, police department reading “IF YOU CHOOSE TO DO DRUGS, WE MAKE HOUSE CALLS”; the other has a corkboard with dozens of index card representing various sketches, with names like “Cyborg Heart Explosion,” “Pirates Motivational Meeting,” and “Kid Playing Doctor Diagnoses Neighbor With Cancer.” The card they are concerned with now is “Human Furniture,” and the question they are pondering is whether the idea of leasing people as couches is funnier as a scene or a commercial. They are choosing to ponder in silence.”
—From a fascinating article about the Upright Citizens Brigade, written in September 1998 by journalist Gavin Edwards, after he spent a week shadowing the group.