Election post
Status
Elected
A Grater upon birth, I fully embrace the controversial, confusing, cathartic, and sometimes musical, turn that our artistic expression can take. The Comparative Literature student in me loves how sketches unite writers, comedians, actors (of varying abilities), folio artists and gremlin impressionists.
The Graters will continue to emulate classically rib-tickling sketch comedians while also expressing individuality-so that alongside the apple pies in the figurative pie showcase that is a Graters show, there are also experimental ones such as green grape, crawfish or heck, crusted mac n cheese concoctions that taste so damn hilarious despite hardly qualifying as pies.
New members this year exemplify sketch’s value at university. I aim to recruit more in part by posing the simple question, ‘Why settle for great when you can be Graters?’. As UCL’s premier sketch group it is for those already bloated with sketches as well as those who are fatefully to express themselves through a series of vignettes, be they closely linked or loosely connected. We will realistically churn out more performances at university and, mainly metaphorically, wet its seats with laughter. Currently part of many performance-related societies, I also hope for inter-society sketches.
As sketch coordinator, I would uphold collaboration, diligence, and passion to ensure that this singularly chaotic family, by virtue of their brilliance, will remain far from