I’ve been taking classes and seeing shows at Upright Citizens Brigade for a couple years now and it’s getting to the point where I’m seeing people actually succeed. It reminds me of when I was a freshman in high school and I walked by the varsity football players and I didn’t really know who they were but they were kind of mysterious, and big and meaty, and could grow facial hair. But then they graduated and disappeared and a new class of varsity football boys moved up the ranks.
With a “senior class” of UCB actors hitting it big constantly:
SNL’s Bobby Moynihan
Accidentally on Purpose’s Lennon Parham
Community’s Donald Glover
The Office’s Ellie Kemper
Parks and Recreation’s Aubrey Plaza to name a few,
I am not overwhelmed with hatred and jealousy as I would have predicted. I am excited and hopeful that there could quite possibly (eventually) be a place in this industry for people like me.
In high school, I didn’t actually give a rat’s ass about football. Turns out not many people do. And I have no idea where those 18 year old athletes are now, if they played college ball, etc. But these talented performers “graduated” from UCB and followed through to the next bigger arena. The biggest arena: the real world.
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