Divine Comedy is a performing group at Brigham Young University. The official website describes it as "BYU's Premiere Sketch Comedy Troupe". The group parodies aspects of BYU culture and performs live 3 times per semester.<ref> </ref>

History

In January of 1994, Randy Davis and Greg Peterson met in a Public Speaking class in the HFAC building on BYU campus. Randy had done improvisational comedy and impressions with his friends, and Greg's job in high school was performing in a comedy group once a week. Inspired by the potential fun of making people laugh without being vulgar, the two joined forces, got the word out, held auditions, and Divine Comedy was born--and we don't even have stretch marks.
Since then, the group has continued to perform to sold-out audiences on-campus and toured to other locations as well.

Performers

Divine Comedy holds auditions every September for new members to replace ones that have moved on.<ref> </ref><ref name="q1"/> Performers practice twice a week for two hours and then every day during the week of a show. All material in the show is the original work of the cast. |url=http://www.divinecomedy.net/?pid=5#q3 |title=Divine Comedy FAQ: What is it like to be in Divine Comedy? |accessdate=2006-11-22 |year=2004}}</ref> Information about the cast, crew, and alumni can be found on the Bios page.

Publications

Divine Comedy has made available on their website videos of a number of their skits as well as other original videos[1747]. Parodies of Mormon Ads (called Mormon Adz) can also be found on the website[1748]. Divine Comedy has also made a CD[1749] and a DVD entitled <u>Divine Comedy: Pro Tour Volume 1</u>[1750].

External links

Divine Comedy website

References

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