Spring Break
Sketch comedy with precise humor
by Cassie Seinuk
Arts | 5/1/07
Posted online at 11:59 PM EST on 4/30/07
/ Last updated at 2:38 PM EST on 4/30/07
What's funnier than bondage, mustaches and bacon fights? How about Boris' Kitchen's spring show, "Allergic Reactions," which ran Saturday and Friday and combined prerecorded and live sketches? Within the first five minutes of the show, the audience was already itching with laughter from the very clever "Who's who" video, and the "Quick fix" sketch that introduced the theme. Who else could have though of a heroine epi-pen other than the talented comics of Boris' Kitchen?
Nothing could compare to the laughter that echoed through the Shapiro Theater during the "All Tied Up" video. It featured Mike Martin '09 dressed in an expensive bondage suit, and Brian Melcher '10 as his master. Melcher led Martin on a leash through the C-Store during extremely busy lunchtime hours, as Martin carried and paid for his master's groceries. He received a "Have a nice day, Sweetie," from the cashier, and some say they saw a tour going by in the background. For future warning, one must know that there is a 99 percent chance that Martin will be partially nude during every Boris' show.
But even a nude Boris' boy couldn't bring the audience into anaphylactic shock as much as the "Mustache Sketch" video did-this was, simply put, the highlight of the show. Here, David Klasko '07, Joshua Louis Simon '07, and Efrem Kleinman '07 brought the audience into tears of laughter with their silent film. Special guest Beck Holden '08 sported a curled mustache, so of course it was Boris' job to do something with this funny facial hair. The film was outlandishly hilarious, the performance by the three senior Boris boys witty and hysterical.
After introductions, the show began on a very serious note with the "Playground Wars," and more importantly, the coming Playground Captain Elections. Of course, Ron Kendler '09 stupefied the audience with his 2nd-grader impressions, and was rightly cast for this political parody. Robin Farber '09 led a compelling debate on the War on Homework, and attacked Simon, calling him a "poo-face."
Nothing could compare to the laughter that echoed through the Shapiro Theater during the "All Tied Up" video. It featured Mike Martin '09 dressed in an expensive bondage suit, and Brian Melcher '10 as his master. Melcher led Martin on a leash through the C-Store during extremely busy lunchtime hours, as Martin carried and paid for his master's groceries. He received a "Have a nice day, Sweetie," from the cashier, and some say they saw a tour going by in the background. For future warning, one must know that there is a 99 percent chance that Martin will be partially nude during every Boris' show.
But even a nude Boris' boy couldn't bring the audience into anaphylactic shock as much as the "Mustache Sketch" video did-this was, simply put, the highlight of the show. Here, David Klasko '07, Joshua Louis Simon '07, and Efrem Kleinman '07 brought the audience into tears of laughter with their silent film. Special guest Beck Holden '08 sported a curled mustache, so of course it was Boris' job to do something with this funny facial hair. The film was outlandishly hilarious, the performance by the three senior Boris boys witty and hysterical.
After introductions, the show began on a very serious note with the "Playground Wars," and more importantly, the coming Playground Captain Elections. Of course, Ron Kendler '09 stupefied the audience with his 2nd-grader impressions, and was rightly cast for this political parody. Robin Farber '09 led a compelling debate on the War on Homework, and attacked Simon, calling him a "poo-face."
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Michael Schakow '01, MA '01
posted 5/10/07 @ 12:29 AM EST
About nine years ago an infamous review of Boris' Kitchen in the Justice concluded that every male character was either gay, Jewish or Jesus, and every female a "dim-witted nymphomaniac. (Continued…)
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