Hanging tough with The Whitest Kids U Know

Last Thursday,instead of staying home to watch Smallville(which debuted Black Canary as well as brought back Green Arrow),I accompanied my sister to a taping of a The Whitest Kids U Know episode that will be shown later this spring. WKUK is the newest comedy sketch show sensation that had it's first season on the music channel Fuse and has just started Season Two on IFC,Sundays at 11 P.M..



My sister,being a major fan girl of theirs,was given an invite to the show due to her membership on one of the WKUK fansites. She was allowed to bring a guest,so I was tapped for that honor. While the two of us don't always agree on certain pop culture pleasures(she hates Gilmore Girls,for example, and even drew a very cranky cartoon about them,which I have on display with the first four seasons of the show on DVD that I got for Christmas this year)but we both know a good thing when we see it.



Our sense of humor can differ into opposite areas;she also loves Tim and Eric's Awesome Show,Great Job!,which is just too weirdly random for my taste. Nothing against Tim and Eric,I liked Tom Goes to the Mayor but I'm a gal who needs a little structure for the jokes to be set up on and then you can knock it down to size. Let me put it this way;back in the day,some folks were into Ren and Stimpy and others into Beavis and Butthead. I was a Beavis person. It was crude humor but damn funny and it made sense to me,unlike the surrealistic stylings of R&S.



Okay,back to the present-getting to the show was tricky at first,but not that hard. It did feel like a leg of The Amazing Race,with us missing the early bus and trying to catch up with it in the road and then later arriving at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center and reading over the directions like they were a clue to a Road Block.

We did make good time and had a good time as well. The show was a mix of taped segments for Season Two and the guys reenacting some of their best skits(due to the Writer's Strike,they were only able to have nine episodes filmed,so this concert edition will be the tenth one)on stage. It was so cool to see these skits done live,with little improvs and adlibs tossed in as bonuses. During one bit,where three of the guys had to stand perfectly still,you could catch them trying not to laugh. Truly priceless.

Here are some of the bits that we saw that night(a lot of this is not work or kid safe-you have been warned!):

THIS WOULD BE GREAT IF IT HAPPENED IN REAL LIFE:



BUSINESS AS USUAL IN HOLLYWOOD:



WHO KNEW HOW PROFOUND THE WORK OF GWYNETH PALTROW COULD BE?:



GOING TO THE THEATER WITH LINCOLN WAS NOT A PLEASANT EXPERIENCE:



I DON'T THINK THAT EVEN DR. PHIL COULD HELP THIS COUPLE OUT:



THE JOURNEY TO RECESS IS AN EPIC ONE,INDEED:



THIS SHOULD MAKE A DANDY CAMPAIGN SONG FOR SOME AMBITIOUS POLITICIAN IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY OF OURS:



The finale of the show was a live performance of Dinosaur Rap,the "first rap song about getting high with dinosaurs". Trevor encouraged the audience to sing along(there were subtitles on the video shown in the background)while the rest of the gang came out in dinosaur heads,tossing the appropriate props out to eager fans in the crowd. At the end,folks were invited to join them on stage and I was part of the pleased as punch crowd to shake a tail feather. Before I left,I did manage to join the "hug line" that developed around Trevor and received a brief embrace from him.

So,yes,it was one of the best experiences that I've had in my life and worth missing Smallville for. Thank you to my sister for taking me along with her and a big thanks to Trevor,Zach,Darrin,Sam and Timmy for putting one hell of a great show: