Sketch Comedy

Guide

A Sketch Comedy is a short, humorous skit intending to provoke the audience by mocking existing stereotypes, characters, or assumptions.

Rationale: Team collaboration forces the active recall of information with a distinct purpose. The expectation of peer appraisal has been shown to increase motivation and performance. Understanding and working within group dynamics is an important life skill. Research demonstrates that synthesizing information, or taking information and creating new and independent work, increases understanding and retention.

Instructions: With your Team, designate a facilitator that will guide the collaborative process. Designate someone who will write down ideas and create a finalized screenplay. Brainstorm a plot and scenes that will mock assumptions, characters, or stereotypes within the learned information. Link them together into a flowing sequence that tells a story. Design or obtain props that will facilitate the humor.

General Guidelines

· Be creative

· Apply learned knowledge

· Mock assumptions, taboos, characters, or stereotypes

· Do not rely on slapstick humor (physical silliness)

· Remember your audience

· Keep it Short and Simple

· Turn in a professionally written script

· Contains a climax

Sketch Comedy Rubric

possible points	expectations	points earned
1	Actors stay composed in humorous situation
2	Actors do not need to refer to script
2	Uses props humorously
4	Clearly uses necessary information
2	Mocks assumptions, taboos, characters, or stereotypes
1	Does not rely on slapstick humor
1	Actors project their voice
2	Prepared at the designated start time
15

Sketch Comedy Example