1. Notes: 39 / 11 months ago  from travishelwig
   The Coolest Kids in School: The Surprising Influence of the National College Comedy Festival

   travishelwig:

   I wrote this article on Skidmore’s National College Comedy Festival for Splitsider.  It’s easily the most research I’ve done in my life.  

   Read, comment with your Skidmore stories, pass it along, and tell me what you think!

   When I was a freshman at this festival, I saw the Hammerkatz perform what are now famous Derrick sketches.  Derrick didn’t exist yet.  But that set had connections between each sketch, and merged stage sketch with video.  They even pre-recorded video in the theater to make it look like we were seeing what happened live right after a character stormed out of the theater.  I felt like I had never really seen sketch until then.

   On the same night, I saw UCB TourCo for the first time.  Anthony King started their show by saying it was really special for them to be there, because they remember being there as college students themselves.  Then they performed the most incredible improv set I’d ever seen in my life.  The cast was Anthony King, Chris Gethard, Shannon O’Neill, Neil Casey, and Joe Wengert.

   It was no surprise when the members of Derrick came back the next year as Derrick, a professional group, after graduating from the Hammerkatz (when you’re in college comedy, you graduate from your comedy group, not your school).  I didn’t know they would do improv, and not sketch.  They raised the bar and showed me again the best improv I’d ever seen up till then.  I was already doing everything I could to contribute to making receSs a group that someone could see on stage one day and be even somewhat inspired to try to accomplish the same.

   I really think that at Skidmore, there is never anything like seeing your first Skidmore show, and there is never anything like performing in your last Skidmore show.

   Read this article.

2. Notes: 8 / 11 months ago  from travishelwig (originally from zgibs)
   

   kirklarsen:

   zgibs:

   Slate T-shirt.  Holy shit kablam.

   Damn! This shit is the shit.

   The Slate World College Comedy Festival Four should be pretty dope.

   Surfs up.

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3. 11 months ago  from zgibs

   zgibs:

   receSs’s latest video!  Lost Domino’s commercials

   receSs on their video grind!

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4. 1 year ago  from zgibs

   zgibs:

   ReceSs Video of the Day pt. 2.

   Oh shit.  I spoke too soon.  Now I have no idea what the best receSs video of the year is.

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   • it's probably this one
5. Notes: 4 / 1 year ago  from travishelwig (originally from zgibs)

   Best receSs video of the year.

   travishelwig:

   kirklarsen:

   zgibs:

   New ReceSs video

   NEW MEXICO!

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6. 2 years ago  from zgibs

   receSs!!!!

   This video is super funny and goofy and beautiful.

   zgibs:

   New ReceSs video!

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   • doin' it big
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   • receSs is the best college comedy group in the country
   • yeah I said it

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