Ari Voukydis has studied with all four original members of the UCB, and has trained with Joe Bill, Mick Napier, Rebecca Sohn and Mark Sutton of the Annoyance Theater, as well as with Second City's Susan Messing. He has also studied theater at Atlantic Theater Company, and has been trained in pro wrestling.

He has appeared on "The Upright Citizens Brigade" on Comedy Central and on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," and can currently be seen on VH-1's "Best Week Ever."

In his seven years with the UCBT he has appeared in countless shows; he is probably proudest of "Wicked F***in' Queeyah," a longform improvised tribute to his hometown (Boston).

Ari has written for "Esquire," "SPY," "Entertainment Weekly," SNL's "Weekend Update," and used to be an ask-the-boy columnist for "YM." His natural enemy is the cobra.