Shortly after midnight on Sunday, False Advertising performed for a packed house at Cholmondeley's. The improvisational comedy troupe, two members lighter after the May graduations of Bevin Croft and Carrie Spaulding, returned from its summer hiatus in top form for the audience of loyal fans and curious first-years.Without missing a step, the troupe performed the usual opener of dividing the audience in two and ordering audience members to scream the names of opposing items. In this case, the shouting match concerned posters featuring either "The Simpsons" or Bob Marley.Following the opening exercise, False Ad performed their first game, entitled "Hut-hut-hike," in which a scene is repeated under a diminishing time limit. Tamara Fleischer, Alex Goldstein and Eric Sirota took the stage for this sketch, creating a hectic scene at a candy store, as suggested by an audience member. Sirota portrayed an incessant child anxious to buy some candy, while Goldstein, (who uses the nom de guerre A-Slice while on stage, acted as a father displaying severe emotional instability and potentially inappropriate contact with Sirota. Fleischer,) as the shopkeeper, played off Goldstein's rage with a show of inconvenient service. When the time limit on this sketch lasted 30 or 60 seconds, the audience produced constant, yet subtle laughter. But as the actors were forced to confine their performance to 15, 10 and eventually five seconds, wild physical comedy took over, much to the delight of the audience.

The second sketch, "Master and Servant," featured Caitlin Steitzer and Goldstein. Goldstein, as the servant, left the room while Steitzer, as the master, asked the audience for a reason to punish her servant. In the actual sketch, Steitzer skillfully employed the tone of an aristocratic matriarch, while Goldstein appeared to have the inflection of a stunned member of the Three Stooges. Again, the audience enjoyed the sketch, especially when Goldstein made some particularly disgusting guesses of the source as to his master's ire.

Weldon Kennedy, Mike Popper and Sirota performed in the third game, "Melodrama." In this sketch, the actors told about childhood traumas concerning bicycles. Sirota constructed his phobia toward bikes around falling off, and Kennedy forged a tale of forced participation in the Tour de France. Like the first game, the laughter was mostly subtle for this scene, but as the emotional irrationality increased, so did the reaction from the audience. False Advertising clearly knows its strengths, and this was excellently displayed when Kennedy referred to five-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong as "that bastard from the United States Postal Service." Not to be outdone, Popper concluded this scene by revealing himself to actually be a bicycle and offering the other two actors off stage.

The crowd-pleasing "186" followed, in which the entire troupe fired of puns based on the concept 186 of a selected noun being denied service in a bar. Ninjas, the first suggested noun, proved to be rather difficult until Sirota referenced the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The U.S.P.S. fell victim a second time when Jake Kamins mentioned the Mailman Psychological Center. The first-years in the audience reveled when they were chosen as the final example for this game, even if the jokes were at their expense.

In one of the last sketches of the night, Jake Kamins and Eric Sirota performed "I Hate You Because," a sketch that asks audience members to write down reasons to hate another person. The actors then dropped the reasons on the stage and picked them up at random in their portrayal as feuding lovers, a relationship that led Kamins to address the frequency of this suggestion. In the scene itself, reasons that Kamins and Sirota cited included early alarm clocks and the legitimacy of Joan Rivers. However, the line of the night was delivered by Kamins when he faulted Sirota for eating the corpse of Abraham Lincoln, making an accusation of "posthumous presidential consumption."

False Advertising's semester premiere was a well-received success from start to conclusion, pleasing fans both old and new.

False Advertising are seniors Jake Kamins and Eric Sirota, juniors Mike Popper and Caitlin Steitzer and sophomores Tamara Fleischer, Alex Goldstein and Weldon Kennedy. The group is holding open auditions at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday in Gluck Lobby at Usdan.