In comedy, the main basic principle is supposed to be “making the audience laugh.” But every so often, a joke comes along – or in our case, a sketch – that you just fall in love with. Robot Johnson’s Graham Odom (Maybe you know him? Big head? Looks like The Cowardly Lion?) wrote such a sketch that’s in this week’s show. I instantly fell in love with it. But just as instantly, I knew it was weird and most people wouldn’t get it. (Much like Graham himself.)

It centers around a T-900 90 degree leak proof connector joint with optional integrated o-ring. The love I have for this sketch is the same type of love that I imagine a mother would have for her ugly-ass child.

The reason why I’m posting? We performed this sketch tonight in Greenville. I was expecting it to die worse than the bad guy in Bruce Willis’ triumphant 1991 classic, “The Last Boy Scout.” I was pleasantly surprised. It did well enough that I didn’t have to have a conversation later that would start with, “I don’t care how it went over…” and would end with “we’re doing it anyway, because I love it…”

Don’t get me wrong. The sketch didn’t kill. In fact, there were other sketches in the show that outperformed my ugly baby, but the highlight of the night was that the Stephen Baldwin of sketches didn’t die. Thank you Greenville for a lovely evening. And thank you Graham for being the surrogate father to a sketch that I will always consider to be mine.

- Papabot