How Easy is it to Write Comedy?

The MMS eighth-grade students truly rose to the occasion, presenting their comedic masterpieces with full dramatic flair. They even assigned roles to their classmates to bring their work to life. Their task? Take an everyday situation and crank it up to hilariously absurd levels.

The result? A skit about a party so epic that the guests began worshipping their overwhelmed host. When the host tried to set some boundaries with a polite, “Let’s lay some ground rules,” the guests dropped to their knees, chanting, “Let’s pray to him!” Things escalated quickly when the frazzled host suggested cleaning up before it got dark, prompting one zealous guest to declare, “He wants us to sacrifice a life so the sun comes up!”

Meanwhile, the sixth-grade students ventured into skits about ordinary people unfit for their jobs: 



• An orthodontist who hates metal and insists on crafting braces from wood—mahogany for elegance, pine for budget-conscious smiles.
• A funeral director whose eulogies lack tact, “He was six feet tall, and now he’s six feet under,” and “He always thought outside the box—until he ended up in one.”
• A veterinarian tragically allergic to animals.
• A storm chaser who can’t drive and hails taxis to pursue tornadoes.
• A detective who can’t see, insists that the perpetrator is ten feet tall, or maybe no, four feet tall.
• A zookeeper mysteriously losing animals while debuting fabulous new exotic fur coats each week.
• A baker who treats recipes like vague suggestions.
• A racecar driver proudly striving for 20th place—and unable to round a turn - his strength he says, is going straight ahead.