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You know that silence you sometimes get during a lull in the conversation that someone always ruins by saying “awkward turtle?”
The Whitest Kids U’ Know are the turtle. Trading on the uncomfortable humor that has made shows like “The Office” famous — though they take things much further than a prime time television show ever will — WKUK (as their fans know them) have made a career out of their idiosyncratic brand of sketch comedy.
Their self-titles TV show will soon begin its fourth season on the Independent Film Channel, which doesn’t censor their frequently foul-mouthed sketches. While the show centers around the five core members of the group – Trevor Moore, Zach Cregger, Timmy Williams, Sam Brown and Darren Trumeter – WKUK alternates between including only the core group in the sketches and dressing in drag for female parts, and bringing in extras.
“Most times [the extras are] actually our crew, which is funny,” Trumeter said. “It’s got to the point now where the people who are starting out on the show have to fill out a form saying we’re going to end up using you. I think we have everyone in our crew on our show at some point.”
One of the few comedy groups scheduled to perform at Fun Fun Fun Fest, WKUK will be returning to the form that got them off the ground – live sketches.
“We have the lines down a little better when we do them live,” Moore said. “Some of the sketches [we do live] are from the show. There’s definitely fan favorites from the Internet that we’ll try and hit, since people want to see sketches they know. And then we try and do new stuff.”
Content for the sketches varies wildly. They’ve done two sketches on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (one in which the president asks a theater-goer “What now, bitch?” one time too many), a children’s song with detailed instructions on how to make crystal meth and one in which a CEO wearing S&M gear walks into a meeting dragging a four-poster with an Asian hooker handcuffed to the bed and attempts to conduct the meeting with his appalled subordinates as the girl’s pimp stabs her to death.
It’s dark stuff, and they trade heavily in absurdity and topics of anti-establishment.
“We’re not going to do the health care stuff,” Moore said. “The viewpoint the show does have is that ‘the man’ is bad. It doesn’t mean Republicans or Democrats – it’s more focused on the law. It comes from an angry high schooler – anyone who tells you what to do is the worst person in the world. Our show doesn’t take any sort of authority figure seriously; we’re happy to make fun of everyone.”
WHAT: Whitest Kids U’ Know
WHEN: Sunday, 8:45 p.m.
WHERE: Yellow Stage
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