Students entered Schwartz Auditorium at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday night, waiting for the members of False Advertising to entertain them. After 15 minutes, the audience began to grow agitated when no one had taken the stage. It was also hard to talk with friends over the booming hip-hop filling the room. They soon began to realize that nothing they would see that night would have anything to do with Les Miserables. The opening acts preceding False Advertising were two rappers introduced as Avi and MC Zeps, who began to rap in a style similar to that of Eminem. Their first song, as far as I could figure, was about different types of cereal and breakfast food. MC Zeps went on for far too long,, but Avi had more meaningful and rhythmic lyrics. They tried to get the audience up and dancing, but only managed to get about 10 people out of their seats. When they were finished with their songs and a comically unsuccessful attempt at freestyle, even the audience in the balcony didn't clap. The crowd was not too thrilled.

The Late Night Players then took the stage. Their slapstick style of comedy was funny because of its absurdity. Some of their sketches had characters whose thick accents amused, but made it very difficult to understand what they were saying. They repeated a sketch they had performed at Talent Fest about dinosaurs wearing clothes, changing it by taking a pause in the middle to tell the crowd that every time they laughed, a razor blade was coming closer to a puppy's throat. As terribly masochistic as it was, the audience roared with laughter.

False Advertising finally began their act at 12:10, and half of their audience had left by then. Many people got up from their seats and left the balcony after realizing they could not hear from their seats. From that point on, small groups tapered off here and there with the completion of every scene. On a Saturday night, who could blame them?

The Late Night Players joined False Advertising for the "World's Worst" game and made it one of the funniest skits. But, at one point it became a not-so-subtle attack on a cappella groups. It came off as more disturbing than comical, and the audience did not take too well to the comments.

Despite my disappointment, I stayed for another few sketches that stretched on much longer than necessary, which seemed to be the general trend of the night. One activity was called the "Robin Williams Interpretive Debate," which really had nothing to do with Robin Williams, and did not succeed in producing more than a chuckle. After about three more sketches the show had made me weary.

Although I had a hard time believing that a comedy group called False Advertising would actually do what they advertised to do, it was still disappointing to find out they were doing nothing in relation to their flyers whatsoever. Despite that, I could have enjoyed myself had the acts been more concise and prompt. There were funny moments to the show, and I did find myself laughing periodically with the crowd, but on a Saturday night, everyone had other things on their agenda.