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Using all five senses to experience the Internet is no feat for actresses Allison Goldberg and Jen Jamula, a duo that transforms snippets from platforms like Twitter or Yelp into live sketch comedy.

In 2011, the Yale drama graduates founded Blogologues, a sketch comedy group that brings life to the most ludicrous words on the web, expanding and repurposing them into hour-long, hilariously acted-out scenes. Crowds of people—people who want to experience a tangible Internet instead of simply chuckling to themselves while reading Yahoo! answers online, at home, alone—usher into the group’s every performance to share belly laughs with others who think the web is just as entertaining.

Before each show, the troop scrounges the Internet for comments made on community forums, blogposts, OkCupid profiles, YouTube, Tumblr pages, and fan fiction sites. The group is made up of Goldberg, Jemula, and a lineup of rotating young actors and lyricists. After the search is complete, the team puts their creative genius together to build stories around each Internet tidbit, making sure the script follows word-for-word from the web. Soon, the group heads out on stage to give birth to a live webpage or comment section. …show more content…

On their website, the team states their purpose is to both understand and question the concept of identity in the digital

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