Comedy sketch troupe Whitest Kids U’ Know opened its show Friday night with a skit featuring three hunters about to engage in beastiality with a lone, promiscuous fawn. The audience responded with loud laughter.
It wasn’t long, however, until Whitest Kids founding member Trevor Moore fired the audience’s amusement back at them.
“We asked the world where the dirtiest fucking pervs are,” Moore said to the crowd. “And they immediately said Bloomington, Indiana.”
[2013 Q&A with Whitest Kids | IDS]
Whitest Kids originally had a T.V. show called “The Whitest Kids U’ Know” on IFC, which has significantly helped with the group’s success, Comedy Attic owner Jared Thompson said.
“They are one of the most successful sketch comedy acts in history,” Thompson said.
This is the fourth time Whitest Kids has performed at the Comedy Attic, Thompson said. The group met great success in Bloomington, selling out every one of their 15 shows in the past three years.
[Read about the Whitest Kids' 2014 performance at the Comedy Attic]
While Whitest Kids typically performs in Bloomington during spring break, Thompson said he instead booked it to perform at the beginning of the fall semester. He said he hopes the Whitest Kids’ act provided a positive start to the semester.
Four of the five members of Whitest Kids — Moore, Zach Cregger, Sam Brown and Darren Trumeter — were present at the performance. The only one absent was Timmy Williams.
In order to accommodate for this, members of the troupe would portray Williams in an exaggerated, high-pitched voice in skits they weren’t featured. At one point in the show, they had a member of the audience stand in for Williams.
Comedian Aaron Nadell opened for Whitest Kids with a stand-up routine that involved topics such as libertarianism, home-schooled children, vaccinations and the complications of traveling back in time to kill Adolph Hitler.
As for Whitest Kids, its performance was made up of a series of sketches exploring subject matter such as drug dealing, sexism, racism and even “Star Wars.”
Whitest Kids heavily based its routine on audience participation. Members would frequently interrupt their own skits in order to ask the opinion of the audience regarding the topics being discussed within the skit.
At one point, during a skit between Cregger and Brown about splitting the bill during dates, Cregger interrupted to ask the audience whether they agree with him on whether a man should be obligated to pay for an entire date. The majority of the audience responded in his favor with cheers and applause.
“The year is 2016, Donald Trump is about to become the motherfucking president and it shouldn’t be a big fucking deal,” Cregger said.
Whitest Kids also incorporated music into their performance. Moore and Brown played guitar while they sang a song about circumcision to the tune of Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls.” The song was called “God Hates the Tips of Little Babies’ Dicks.”
On top of that, Whitest Kids also played the music video to its song “Cat History,” which explores the idea of an alternate universe run entirely by cats.
Despite the popularity of comedy sketch acts, Thompson said Whitest Kids is the only non-Bloomington sketch act that performs at the Comedy Attic. Instead, it’s customary for a performance to be done by a single stand-up comedian.
For this reason, Thompson said Whitest Kids is truly an original act for the Comedy Attic.
“It’s totally different than anything you would normally see,” Thompson said.
