Comedy Analysis. The sketch comedy group performing consisted on three students from UC San Diego in Interrobang which consisted of 4 sketches.

They build their sketches through scientifically rigorous humor logical studies, and they are presenting their most successful results. Their sketches are based off of years of results through modern psychological theory in laughter and humor, and because it is so scientifically rigorous it has a inverse proportional relationship to how far away you are from it, so the closer you are the more funny the sketches will be. They then proceed to tell everyone in the back to move up front, to achieve more laughter. They used various techniques in writing each sketch, from standard joke set ups to more unconventional ways of sketch writing. Each sketch incorporated different methods of how to make us laugh, they uses variation on a theme, comedy without jokes, beginning at the end, and sustainability. They talked about how in sketch comedy you first come up with a premise, you start with your seedling idea and you grow the tree into however many laughs the joke is going to last. But in “the dinner” sketch they used the technique of starting first with the punch line of the joke. With humor you can start at any point, comedy has its high points and its low points, in the comedic process you don’t have to start on a premise and end on a punch line. This sketch shows that rather than a mountain, jokes are more like sine waves, continuous rising and falling. In sketch comedy the comedic process can start at any point and end at any point in the thought process. The “Oval Office” sketch was written with no jokes, there was not a single joke uttered.  The only joke was visual, they used a standard bureaucratic form, like any on a television political drama but the president was dressed like a baby only wearing a diaper. In the final series of sketches they use one theme “ two men sitting next to each other in the waiting room at a doctors office, and a women enters the scene and has a baby on the waiting room floor.” They make only one joke and then kept on making the same joke but just in a different ways and it got funnier and funnier, here they use variation on a theme. In addition to humor, they explored language and communication. They talked about how their main method for coming up with a lot of their jokes, was doing improvisation while hanging out on a normal day to day basis. I enjoyed their live show very much, and would definitely go seem them again.