Last spring, Saturday Night Live cast member Amy Poehler played a Sweet Briar College student in one the long-running comedy show’s sketches. This month, the New York City playhouse Poehler co-founded, Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, is sending its improv group to Sweet Briar.

At 9 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 15, Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company will bring its radical brand of long-form improvisational theater to Sweet Briar’s Josey Dining Room. The show is free and open to the public, although event organizers say content may be inappropriate for children younger than 13.

In its third year, UCB TourCo has performed at dozens of colleges, universities, theaters and festivals. “It was the funniest show I’ve ever seen on campus,” Natasha Pantelides of Syracuse University wrote on the company’s Web site.

Sydney Chaffee of Sarah Lawrence College wrote, “The UCB TourCo’s show was quirky and disarmingly clever, like a really smart baby. Except unlike a really smart baby, it didn’t make me feel guilty about laughing at it for an hour and a half.”

Praise for the group has included everything from “Witty, irreverent, and conceptually ambitious” to “I almost wet my pants they were so funny.” Entertainment Weekly called them “twisted and uproarious” and late-night talk show host Conan O’Brien said, “[The UCB Theatre] is doing the type of manic, original, inventive stuff I’m always interested in.”

The Feb. 15 show is sponsored by Sweet Briar’s Campus Events Organization. CEO president Tess Drahman, a senior at Sweet Briar, has been to the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in NYC and described their style as “cutting edge, quick-paced, always fun [and] lighthearted.”

She said the 90-minute improv shows are driven by suggestions from the audience. “I’m sure that since they’re here it’ll be college related and they’ll want to ask about student life,” she said, adding, “Sometimes they bring people from offstage. They’re very involved with the audience.”

For more information on UCB TourCo, visit the group’s Web site.

For more information on the show at Sweet Briar, contact Drahman at drahman08@sbc.edu or 229-0197.

— By Suzanne Ramsey, SBC staff writer