In Taylor Theatre on Parents Weekend, Colorado College’s familiar sayings and inside jokes take center stage. Scallywags, Sunbutter and Twit brought a mix of dirty jokes and campus silliness, giving everyone plenty to laugh about.
A cold opening from Scallywags started at 8 p.m., as families and students settled in and the theater fell silent. Nick Smela ‘29, Ewan Ward ‘29 and Miranda Hernandez ‘27 immediately got the crowd laughing with a flashback to American evangelist influencer Sister Cindy’s Sept. visit to campus. Hernandez played Cindy herself, turning the pop-up moment into a comedic take on hookup culture.
CC students were humorously portrayed as freaks, with Hernandez delivering the line, “Y’all are freaks seven days a week,” receiving an immediate response of laughter.
Smela and Ward gave us some satisfying college-satire jokes about the lack of CC’s housing staff, addressing the confusion surrounding housing and how some upperclassmen had been complaining about sophomores living in the apartments.
Referencing a campus inside-joke trampoline incident, Smela cracked a joke about when campus safety officers reportedly said, “Sir, the second trampoline hit Tutt Circle.”
He joked about recently closed restaurant 707 Pizza as an “overstimulation restaurant with doom and despair,” playing on the lack of customers and the huge table screens customers used to use for ordering before the restaurant shut down.
Abby McDonald ’27 then entered through the center prop door dressed as a cat, delivering a sassy performance. This cat isn’t actually a stray; she simply knows how to move around campus and find her way wherever she wants to go. As her skit continued with jokes about the hockey players on campus, the crowd saw Reed Haymons ’27, playing the handsome hockey player, steal her away from the show.
The comedic consistency remained with Sunbutter Stand-Up Comedy, featuring Will Compton ‘27 as MC. Compton unapologetically shares his first-ever experience getting his toes sucked, giving parents a preview of just how far the night will push the limits of comedic discomfort as they sit alongside their kids.
Juliette Saiz ’29 shared her emotional tendencies during her menstrual period.
McDonald made her debut by sharing her hospital visit. Instead of a “$5,000 fart,” Doctor Lax Boy Andy charged her $5,000 for a foot rub and a bush wax.
It was weird, wild and hit the crowd hard.
Twit Sketch Comedy then brought us on a journey into the world of improv, asking the crowd for ideas and letting the chaos unfold. Compton’s father shared a story from his college days, a little time-lapse for the sketch to unfold. We heard about a 12-foot cock-badminton tower, his coworkers at a museum and one coworker who decided to strip, while Mr. Compton knew cameras were rolling the entire time. The performance was secretive, bizarre and completely unhinged. Ben Laschever ‘27 and Marcos Arnold ‘27 referenced the naked dancing coworkers, while Ava Rizika ’27 and Bella Houck ‘27 played the people behind the cameras: “Keep going. Come to the basement later.”
Ending the night with a Sunbutter skit called: “Are college kids really cut out for the real world?” Zaid Momani ‘28 made a case as a self-proclaimed “two Tide Pod kind of guy,” before revealing on screen that he had flooded the Loomis basement while attempting to wash his girlfriend’s laundry while she was an RA.
The night also featured phenomenal performances from Maggie Fitzgerald ‘29, Senaida Vigil ’28 and Luca Rodriguez ’29.
As the night of comedy came to an end, families walked away with a smile and a better understanding of what student groups like Scallywags, Twit and Sunbutter bring to campus.