Students trickled into Hoff Theater for SEE’s spring comedy show on Thursday.

This year, the event was headlined by Dukes — a comedic duo comprised of Jane Wickline and Liva Pierce. The show also featured comedian Sureni Weerasekera as the show’s opener.

After some technical difficulties with the land acknowledgment video played at the beginning of the event, Weerasekera took the stage and wasted no time bringing it up. 

“Can we just talk about that land acknowledgment and how immediately a luxury apartment popped up? Because that was comedy that you couldn’t have [written],” Weerasekera said. “That was so funny… And then someone in the back very loudly going, ‘Just let it play.’”

She immediately engaged in crowd work and dove into fun facts she learned about this university — bringing up the countless indecent exposures, poking fun at Testudo and calling the crowd a “queer liberation meeting.” 

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Weerasekera talked about her immigrant identity and joked that all immigrant kids are paralegals for filling out their parents’ paperwork. She also discussed relationships and how she and her girlfriend’s screensaver are their toddler photos.

Dukes soon took the stage, and unlike Weerasekera who delivered a more traditional stand-up routine, the duo performed humorous songs and skits. 

They started with a song about staying out too late at a party, even after the person you came with left, as Pierce took the lead with vocals — even hitting high notes — and Wickline harmonized and played the keyboard.

Dukes also performed a number about how they were too tall to be jockeys, so they had to create their own beasts so they would not hurt the horses.

One of my favorite parts was their song and sketch about how they became firefighters after their dates caught on fire during a double date at a pizza restaurant. 

The audience listened and laughed as Dukes sang, “Beautiful girls, I’m gonna rescue you. Everyone else, I might rescue you … if I have time to. But the main thing is all the girls that I’m saving. First, the 10s, then the nines, then the eights. If you look mid, girl, you’re gonna have to wait.”

Honestly, bars.

It was hilarious to see them repeatedly run off the stage to get ready for the next sketch, soon coming out with props, costumes and wigs. One of their best involved Wickline’s character pulling out a gun after Pierce’s character suggested breaking some glass at an abandoned house. 

Some of their other skits included a couple role-playing as magicians which eventually lead to a proposal, a voyeuristic scene with Pierce’s character being unable to have sex with Wickline’s girlfriend due to continuous distractions from Wickline, a couple who is not a couple but could have been a couple, and a personal sketch from Pierce where Wickline played Pierce and Pierce played a French inspector.

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The show concluded with a quick Q&A where audience members could ask the comedians anything. One person asked them how they met, to which Wickline and Pierce responded that they met after going to a lot of the same open mics, and at some point they were even neighbors.

When asked what are some of their favorite comedies, Pierce answered they both love The Muppets, and the crowd erupted into cheers, as this university is home of the Muppets.

Dukes ended the show saying, “Alright, let’s go see the bench,” referring to Kermit’s statue outside of Stamp Student Union.