Word: skits
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...Other flashes of amusing oddities include Jeff Dubner '03 as a wimpy boxer incapable of doing a mere pushup pretending to be a 245 lb. man. Through this skit, Critchley mocks masculinity, especially when the drag wrestler beats up Dubner. Also featured is a proposal to start a new colony off of Boston's harbor where all with constant erections may be free from the society of Lympville and roam about on the phallus shaped heaven...
...skit about transsexuality features a man who fosters an appearance of unrectifiable dorkiness. In his monologue, wearing a Brown University shirt for emphasis, he explains how he told his mother he was actually, despite having a girlfriend and the normal high school experience, a lesbian trapped in a man's body. While the monologue touches on serious issues related to transsexuality, the humor of the monologue brings the lighter side of transsexuality to the mind of the audience while addressing the difficulty of social acceptance for transsexuals...
...show's ratings have perked since a time-slot change, it's still uncertain for renewal, as is Roswell (Monday, 9 p.m. E.T.), which just last fall was riding high on a 22-episode commitment. The triumph of Roswell is that it takes what sounds like an SNL skit--teen UFO-crash survivors in New Mexico--and plays it straight, with an eerie, noir beauty and stately pacing rare on today's chatty dramas. (Few series do pauses better than Roswell, thanks largely to Jason Behr, who plays alien Max like a junior Duchovny...