I've realized where I know Sarah Haskins from!!

She was in the Second City troupe (improv act out of Chicago) that came to Webster this past August and performed!

Wow. I feel weird but kinda cool that I've already been to one of her shows, before actually discovering her, lol.

Not that you can tell this is her, but I totally remember her being one of the highlights of the evening--especially in this skit they did about Middle Eastern women.



I think this was the skit that showed a departing American soldier saying goodbye to his burqa-clad Iraqi girlfriend, while the whole time her father shouts loud, bullying commands to "get back in the corner" etc. The best was at the end though, when the American soldier grabs her and they begin to reenact the final dance scene of "Dirty Dancing." I remember being very impressed that they did "the lift" and all.

The whole thing was very smart, but also pretty edgy (especially when it came to politics) humor-wise. One skit was about Hillary Clinton trying to hire assassins to kill Barack Obama, who had excuses like "I'm gay for Obama. He's just the right amount of black." And the opening skit featured a man being held accountable for using up the world's entire supply of oil and policing the world. The mock trial ended when the man beat up the whole court and said: "I'm America; I don't have to be accountable. I kick ass!"

The only reason I'm sure I didn't blog about the show afterwards is because it was the same night we got kicked out of the dorms (without Webster having places on hand to send us) when the power went out. If I'm correct, I believe Sam and I were actually coming back from the Second City show, to find the dorms closed and empty and Public Safety telling us we couldn't go in. Luckily since we weren't aware of the outtage he let us go up and get a few belongings, but then we had to camp out at Will's apartment for the weekend.

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