Their tag line "Sketch comedy so funny, it hurts" is probably the best way to describe them. Their show is a combination of fairly tradition sketch comedy material, although they are edger than your average, run of the mill sketch comedy group. For FUCT, nothing is sacred, nothing.
I would include in the highlights of the evening the acrobatic curtain dance sketch. They had a guest acrobat who performed a routine on a set of hanging curtain's. So did one of the members, who actually did quite well, but the humor arose from his struggle to master the curtain, which the acrobat performed with ease and grace. And of course, they wore matching skin-tone unitards with sequence and ribbons in their hair. The acrobat was a female, the FUCT member was a male. That was funny.
Their use of video for this show was particularly good. Their handle on the medium and how it works for their particular brand of humor has drastically improved over the last few shows. They truly out did themselves with four shorts, styled like commericials to fit with the title of this show "FUCT as seen on TV".
The low point of the night, in glorious FUCT tradition, was the spitting contest. However, this is no ordinary spitting contest. In this one, each of the three contestants was required to spit as much saliva into a little cup for one minute. When I minute was up the person with the most spit in their cup won. The person with the least spit in their cup lost and had to drink everyone else's spit. I couldn't sit through that, so I went to the bathroom after they announced the winner.
I'd say the ideal audience for this show is frat boys and the members of FUCT say gay men. Although, there doesn't seem to be a limit on who likes it or who they make fun of. Everyone can go.
The show runs for three more weekends.
Also catch them at The SkitSkat Live Comedy Festival
Or on Aug 20th in Austin Texas at The Out of Bounds Comedy Festival
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