Acceptance Spee

Back in November and December 2021, a member of our troupe took an online comedy sketch writing class with a well renowned comedy theatre. The class met once a week. The 15 November 2021 assignment was to write a comedy sketch. Like all of their on-stage skits, this skit was to adhere to what CoBaD considers to be, tactfully speaking, very silly and arbitrary rules: The skit must be three to five minutes in duration, between 2-6 characters, and cannot have props and costumes (for more on why CoBaD thinks the duration limit is in place, see the discussion section in the “Witless Twit” sketch). During the reading of this assignment, his instructor rudely cut off (truncated) the reading of the student’s sketch at exactly five minutes in, even though he only had one page left to go. The instructor also said the sketch was unrealistic, specifically the part where a potential son-in-law and father-in-law are meeting and the son-in-law asks for his daughter’s hand. He said that fathers-in-law and sons-in-law don’t meet like that anymore.
The following week’s assignment was to write a 2-3 minute monologue, and so the student submitted the “Acceptance Spee” sketch. The instructor said with disgust “Okay, I see what this is all about,” and moved on without another word.
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