This weekend I had the honor and pleasure of performing with local comedians in a big ass sketch show. We performed sketches written by most of the actors, including myself. Here is our review from Old Dominion University's student newspaper. It appears one of the sketch characters I created was a success...
Posted on 11 October 2012.
Tags: Comedy, Pushers, Sketch
The
Great Big Sketch Show performed by the students of the Muse Writers
Center filled the seats at the Night of the Iguana on Saturday. The
students of the 101, 202, and 303 classes prepared over two hours of
sketch comedy that portrayed scenes with characters that ranged from
sorority girls to rednecks.
A dozen sketch comedians rotated in groups of 2-5 acting out
different scenarios. The highlight act of the night was when a character
named Frank Martin came onto the stage to do a singing sketch to the
beat of Michael Bublé’s “Fever”. The character Martin claimed he had a
sex-filled night with a lovely lady, and then all of a sudden he spots
her in the audience. He pulls the lucky lady, Lauren, from the crowd up
on stage to sing her a song she inspired him to write. The first verse
proceeds as normal until the chorus starts and you realize what Martin
is actually singing about. “You give me herpes,” sings Martin, as the
poor contestant covers her face in shame and laughter.
The show had various characters that appeared in several sketches.
The “that’s what she said” guy was placed in many situations where the
term “that’s what she said” is deemed inappropriate. It chronicled his
life from buying subs, to his father’s colonoscopy, then on to his
father’ death.
The show was packed full of sexual innuendos. Many acts dealt with
the topics of first dates and being turned on by different types of
characters. In the opening sketch, Jane wanted to teach Tarzan to have
sex “in the interest of learning”. The masturbation olympics was a
sketch played out to be a sports event with live coverage. The three
gentlemen dressed in robes and boxers that stepped behind a waist high
sheet to compete in the “shoot out”.
During the intermission, members of the Muse Writing Center went
around asking for donations to help pay for the classes of those can
not. T-shirts and panties were also sold to raise money for the comedy
sketch classes.
The show brought laughter to those who paid the $5 cover charge. The
closer the sketch was to being rated R the more laughs it received. This
comedy community is performing their next show on Oct. 24 at the Funny
Bone. It will be a Halloween show, which the Pushers will star in. The
Pushers acted as mentors for the students in the 101, 202 and 303
classes.
By: Megan Jefferson
Editor In Chief
