Comments on: PMC 111: Ari Shaffir

By: Faith

Faith — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:02:58 +0000

I was one of three people doing a presentation in Biology class in HS. I gave my presentation and tried to toss it to the next person, only to find the other two didn’t do their work AND froze up to boot. So, I grabbed the book and read/paraphrased from their assigned sections. It was so awful that someone turned on one of the bunsen burners and we had to evacuate because of the gas leak.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:26:37 +0000

First time I bombed – I had to do a skit at youth group, so I tried to remember a really funny skit I had seen at 4H camp. I tried to google and find it, and all the results were from Boy Scout resource websites, so that tells you the level of humor we’re talking about.
It involves assembling a lot of “volunteers” to build your candy store, and the other people in your skit asks for different kinds of candy, which you don’t have. Then the punch line is, “I don’t have m&m’s, but I do have a bunch of suckers standing around.” So I had to try and explain this skit, telephone game-style, to my friends who hadn’t seen it, and then we had to coerce the volunteers into coming up on stage with us, and then the punch line didn’t land AT ALL. Just a disaster all around.

By: corinne

corinne — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:05:06 +0000

I took Human Health and Disease in high school, and at one point we all had to do a presentation about a disease, extra credit if we sang. I was originally supposed to talk about gonorrhea, but couldn’t handle it and got switched to Botulism. Day of presentation came, and every other person that decided to sing had had the brilliant idea of recording it earlier, but nope, I got up there and sang Don’t Eat (to the tune of No Doubt’s Don’t Speak), and it was super terrible. But damn right I got an A in that class!