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Media Credit: Angeli Bueno Oleg Shik, Jeremy Bremer, and Kempton Baldrige star in the Niblets most recent show.

Last Friday night, the Buttered Niblets put on a "Whose Line is it Anyway" for Hopkins students. The Buttered Niblets are the best improvisational comedy group on campus. They are widely accepted as "the best" because even though they are the only improvisational comedy group on campus, they are hilarious nonetheless. The Buttered Niblets would undoubtedly win in a show-down if another improvisational comedy group were to appear.

Everyone seemed to agree that the show was well worth the $1 donation since the theater was packed. The improvisational comedy sketches were punctuated with their new members' journeys to overcome their fears because, according to junior Eric Levitz, "In order to be a Buttered Niblet, you can't be afraid of anything."

The veteran Niblets performed six improvisational comedy sketches. At the suggestion of an audience member, the first game took place in a hostel. The Niblets then changed the genre of the scene based on other audience suggestions drawn from a hat. Awkwardly but effectively, they acted in porno, a children's television show, an apocalyptic thriller and more. After, they moved on to "World Championships," a game in which the Niblets portrayed the championships of an absurd sport suggested by audience members - manure shoveling. Sophomore Remy Patrizio and junior Kempton Baldrige shoveled manure while Levitz and sophomore Jeremy Bremer commentated. It quickly turned into one of the funniest skits of the evening when the two "competitors" began to shovel manure at each other. At the end, Kempton was disqualified for using laxatives and Patrizio was declared the winner. The sketch ended with Patrizio's motivational speech for girls wanting to pursue a career in manure shoveling.

After the laundry-room based sketch "Schizo," the audience met the three new Niblets attempting to overcome their fears. The first, freshman Mike Zaccardo, was afraid of women. To help him, the other two practiced conversations with him, ultimately ending in song.

Next, the audience participation was furthered with monologues. In fact, the audience was involved quite a bit. Special guest Rajiv Mallipudi stepped on the Arellano stage and told a story from his "actual life." The Buttered Niblets then proceeded to act it out. His stories involved drugs, police, outdoor sex, a girl stuck on top of a fence and medical school representatives.

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