Word: skits
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...provide the solution to one of the first year's more mundane problems. On the first day of the Freshman Outdoor Program (FOP), our leaders performed a skit for us. They played two people making seemingly innocent conversation--"hello," "how are you," "good to hear it," etc.--until: "So, where do you go to school?" Pause. "The Northeast." Eventually the hapless girl gets cornered and she coughs out the word Harvard with dread and embarrassment...
...scheduled for April 12, a mere week before the first anniversary of the Columbine tragedy. Like students all over the country this year, Brandon Smith, 16, had been drilled on how to survive school violence. And now Smith, cast as the Savior in one of the fellowship's skits, joked a bit tensely to his best friend and girlfriend, "You all, I'm Jesus in this skit; so if anybody gets shot, it'll probably...
...Similarly, another skit features a Framingham construction worker turned priest delivering a eulogy for a lost friend. It is no easy feat to accept a eulogy to a friend who has succumbed to AIDS when both religion and mourning are contexutalized in the larger framework of drag queens and lost penises. Is the priest mocking those who have lost friends to the virus or those who have turned to God in their final months on earth...
...Evidently, one would hope that Critchley does not intend to mock AIDS victims, but the larger point behind this skit is unclear. The omnipresent stag banner decorated with condoms in the sign of a deflated male symbol is clever, but nonetheless its continued presence in every scene makes it impossible to view any skit as possessing serious intention...
...limit yourself to music? In addition to crowd pandering chants like "Where my weed smokers at?" Rahzel's act was punctuated with electronica-mimicking interludes (many of which are on the album). Not one to end on a down note, Rahzel finished his solo set with a Matrix-inspired skit that set up his truly impressive "If Your Mother Only Knew"-appropriately dedicated to Bobby McFerrin's son. Yes, the beat and the chorus at the same time...