Mother is an improvisational comedy group formed in 1999. Its nine members are Scot Armstrong

Scot Armstrong

Scot Armstrong is an American screenwriter. He best known for his Comedy films with director Todd Phillips in the films Road Trip, Old School, Starsky & Hutch, School for Scoundrels, and the sequel film The Hangover: Part II. He also wrote the script for Semi-Pro and The Heartbreak Kid.-...

, Tara Copeland, Jon Daly, James Eason, Jesse Falcon

Jesse Falcon

Jesse Scot Falcon is an American improv and sketch comedy performer based in New York. He attended Albion College in Albion, Michigan, graduating in 1993 with a degree in Speech, Communications, and Theatre...

, Jason Mantzoukas

Jason Mantzoukas

Jason Mantzoukas is an American actor and comedian currently appearing as Rafi in the FX comedy series The League.-Life and career:Mantzoukas began performing improvisational comedy in college. He attended Middlebury College in Vermont. After college, Mantzoukas studied music and lived abroad for...

, Doug Moe, Jessica St. Clair

Jessica St. Clair

Jessica St. Clair is an American actress, writer, sketch comedian and comedy improviser who often performs at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York and Los Angeles, usually as a member of the improv group Mother. Jessica has been a regular on the show Best Week Ever, offering her...

, and Christine Walters

Christine Walters

Christine Walters is an Australian football player, who currently plays for Canberra United FC in the Australian W-League.-References:...

. They performed regularly to sold-out houses at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre or UCB Theatre is an improvisational theatre and associated UCB Training Center with locations in Chelsea, New York, the EEast Village, New York and Hollywood, California.....

 in New York City

New York City

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 from their inception until September 27, 2008..

History

With the assistance of Armando Diaz, they created a new longform, The Sleep Over in the summer of 2001. They performed it for over two years at the UCBT. They later developed The Soundtrack with the assistance of Kurt Braunholer. The Soundtrack ran at the UCBT from 2003-2008. They performed both forms at the Chicago Improv Fest on three occasions. In 2005, Mother won the Chicago Improv Festival Super Cage Match Championship, becoming the first New York City team to do so. This garnered the attention of Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell, CM is a Canadian journalist, bestselling author, and speaker. He is currently based in New York City and has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996...

, who profiled them in his book Blink

Blink (book)

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a 2005 book by Malcolm Gladwell. It presents in popular science format research from psychology and behavioral economics on the adaptive unconscious; mental processes that work rapidly and automatically from relatively little information...

(2005).