What if you heard a quote and had to guess whether it was said by current President George W. Bush or by T.V.’s Batman?
Secret Pants Sketch Comedy asks, “Bush or Batman?”
Secret Pants—”one of the longest running sketch comedy groups in Philadelphia”—went to Independence National Park in Old City Philadelphia, daring to ask the question: Bush or Batman? The comedy team pulled a bunch of quotes from our President’s two terms and Adam West’s campy 1960s T.V. version of the Dark Knight to see if people can tell who said what. Mostly, they couldn’t.
According to one of the troupe members, Bryce Remsburg:
Originally there was a college class in the spring of 2004 at Temple. About six or seven or us met in the class and we were goofing off and hanging out all day. And at the end of the semester we said “hey, we enjoyed doing this, let’s keep it going.†So we met after the last day of the last class and we talked about stuff we like: The State, Kids In The Hall, stuff like that is what we had in common. So we decided to form a comedy troupe.”
A few friends were brought on board for weekly meetings, and they are still doing it four years later. The group has been as large as 16 but currently operates with about 9 members doing sketches and shows.
It proved more difficult than I thought to separate the current Leader of the Free World from the Caped Crusader of the 60s. I suppose that is because, some days, you just can’t get rid of a bomb.
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