making gravy


making gravy

there are four characters: a director, a cook, a passerby, and a doctor.

the cook stirs an imaginary bowl of gravy.

the passerby walks up and says, "whatcha doin'?"

the cooks says, "making gravy." passerby: "can i try some?" "sure!" passerby sticks a finger in and tastes it.

passerby then begins to choke and stagger and eventually die. the cook runs and grabs a doctor. "doctor, doctor! she just ate some of my gravy and fell over! is she dead!?" the doctor, walks over checks her pulse. picks her arm up and lets it fall, then announces "yes, she is dead." the director yells "CUT!" and proceeds to tell them that the scene was too (blank) and needs to be more (blank). then you just do the whole thing over in different styles.

faster (do it in three seconds)

slower (in slow-motion)

kung-fu style,

cheerleader style... have fun with it!

anyone that can tell me at what event this skit debuted during the kevin o'kelley era at huffman with the original cast (ben, nate, phillip, cookie) wins huge points. i would pay millions of dollars (in installments, of course) to anyone that could produce video.

we talked today at lunch about defining moments during that era. things that i will always look back on as signs that we were moving opposite to the direction which the group was used to moving then forging a new path. the first of these moments was the evolution skit that got "edited". there were many more, but the gravy skit took us over for months on top of months. it was a beautiful thing. preceded by taylor as alex trebek. followed by dance-offs, skin-tights and ham, genies, breaking offertory plates. arise my love. things were fun back then. things were good. things were exactly what they should have been. and that's all we could have asked for, right?

i love laughing like i did at lunch today. good belly laughs. good times.