I went to see the Comedy Pigs on February 1. Going into the show I was not sure what to expect entirely, but what happened was unexpected. I was very ignorant of who the Comedy Pigs really were, and was surprised to have such a large percentage of the show be scripted. Since they had come to the Comedy Night at Hood last semester, I assumed that they did more improvisation with maybe a scripted piece thrown in here and there. While I enjoyed the majority of their practiced pieces, I thought that the small portion of improvisation was much stronger than the first half of their show.
I found the first half of the show to be very fast-paced with their rehearsed bits. It was fast-paced in a negative way though. For all but a handful of the sketches, I thought that their time for each one was too short and the humor could have gone deeper. Some sketches they returned to various times throughout the show, and it was more okay for those to be so short, but most of them ended after one or two odd jokes.
One of my favorite sketches was the second one of the act. After a semi-awkward opener of a telephone conference scene, the Pigs jumped into the action with a sketch poking fun at the Red Cross and their efforts to recruit donators. In the scene there was a woman who received several phone calls in a row from the Red Cross in an effort to get her to donate. After turning them down each time due to a phobia of needles, she was then visited in person by a recruiter who knew personal information about her like her blood type (and where she lived of course). The woman then received multiple people demanding her blood, and ran away. The scene ended with her returned to her residence, and her receiving yet another call from the Red Cross. I fo...
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...it, but honestly, I do not think that they were any better with it than we tried to be the first and only time we did it. They also did Party Quirks, Entrances and Exits, and Wide World of Sports. They all went better, but nothing was terribly remarkable to me to stand out.
All in all, I enjoyed my time at the Comedy Pigs show. I had been meaning to see them anyway, so it was a nice to have a reason to go there for this paper. I feel that I learned from them, in at least realizing the kind of stuff that I like and do not like. They did not blow me away with their show, but there were some pretty good stuff to be seen. I definitely enjoyed their improvisational part more, but I did not feel that I experienced anything that was much better than comes out of our HIT! rehearsals. I would go see the Pigs again, but they did not give me cause to be in any rush to do so.
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