False Advertising performed their first show of the spring semester at Chomondley's last Thursday night. Chum's was typically packed and bursting at the seams, as was the trend at False Ad shows. When the group walked through to get to the stage, they were tripping over the audience. The group consists of Jake Kamins '04, Eric Sirota '04, Michael Popper '05, Caitlin Steitzer '05, Tamara Fleischer '06, Alex Goldstein '06, Weldon Kennedy '06, Abby Orenstein '06 and Mark Samburg '07, and they had a very successful show.The show began with a game called "Ding," played by Kennedy and Orenstein. The premise was to act out a scene, but when someone called "ding" they had to restart their last sentence. This game turned out to be only mildly funny and quite short compared to later skits and activities.

The next came was called "Clue," in which the audience picked an occupation, location and murder weapon. Popper was responsible for acting it out which Kamins was left to guess. However, only gibberish could be spoken. Then Kamins, based on his presumption and before they were confirmed, had to act it out for Orenstein. Watching Popper and Kamins jump around on stage was hilarious. One of the most entertaining moments of the whole game was when Orenstein, trying to guess, looked at Kamins in sheer bewilderment. Her vulnerability on stage didn't make her falter but actually made her funnier.

Following "Clue" was a game called "Five Genres" in which Kamins and Popper had to act out a scene as if they were characters from five different genres. As they acted out two jail inmates in different ways, the funniest part was when they broke into a song and dance routine for the musical genre character. Popper ended up performing a dance on stage that was hilarious and that the entire audience clapping along with him.

Next was a line game called "Five Minutes Before And Five Minutes After," where everyone in the group made a short joke about what went on five minutes (or, really, any amount of time) before or after a historical event. Some of the events picked were the Battle of Gettysburg, the 1969 moon landing and Britney Spears getting married. This game also heralded the start of the Bush jokes, especially about his decision to go to the moon ... again.

The political nature of the show continued in the next game called "Movie Critics" where Kamins and Popper reviewed fake movies from the 80's. The first movie was supposed to be about Ronald Reagan. Other movies included one from the 1880's and then a parody of the brat pack movies of the 1980's.

Next was a game called "Triple Dubbing," which was played by Sirota, Steitzer and Goldstein. In this game, Sirota spoke for Steitzer, Steitzer spoke for Goldstein and Goldstein spoke for Sirota. The scene took place in a Tacqueria and hilarity ensued with Goldstein playing Sirota as a Yosemite Sam-esque character, Sirota playing Steitzer as a ditzy waitress and Steitzer playing Goldstein as a famous waiter critic. With each person speaking for someone else it was really funny to see how the scene unraveled.

The next game was called "Compilation," which was Fleischer and Sirota talking about a compilation CD that featured pirate songs. Some of the other members sang very funny songs, however Fleischer and Sirota took the "arrgh" jokes a little too far, replacing every "r" with "arrgh."
The final game was called "Newscast" where Goldstein was an imbecile newscaster, Samburg played the expert, Steitzer played the anchor and Sirota played everyone Steitzer was interviewing. The topic that the audience picked was the State of the Union address. Goldstein quickly turned it into being about the addition of a state called Union. It was quite funny as Goldstein played a complete idiot and Steitzer seemed to get so overexcited that she literally started to turn red.

The show was a little political for False Ad, which usually has a wide range of material that isn't as politically charged. However, the show was still very funny as was apparent by the audience's reaction and laughter to the crowd. Overall, False Ad's debut performance of second semester was a success.