The Osgood-Schlatter Show

Sketch and stand-up alternative comedy show created and hosted by Rob Lathan and featuring many performers from the UCBT community. Will Hines was a frequent co-organizer.

History

Rob wanted to do a show, so he rented space at Under St. Marks for four Saturdays in a row. He opened every show with a bit/sketch then featured his friends doing stuff. This continued over the next three or four years on a frequent basis. It was featured at the UCBT for a while as a place for people to try out stuff, eventually being replaced by Liquid Courage. Will Hines wrote his first sketches ever for this crazy thing, often for Rob.

Rob's Bits

Among Rob's most prominent routines to debut at Osgood:

7th Grade Girls Basketball Coach telling stand-up jokes about refs (originally Mark Cuban)
Speed Eater
High-Energy guy (eventually Get Psyched Dr. Lanny Latham)
Guy who is always getting pranked
Guy who keeps joining cults
Guy who wears headgear and loves AC/DC more than anything

Other People's Bits

Ptolemy making everyone promise to close their eyes, then taking off his clothes, which everyone saw
Ptolemy directing several mostly improvised sketches including one where half of it happened backstage -- performed twice in a row to show each half.
Brett Gelman as a landlord talking about turning his life around
Will Hines accidentally masturbating to himself
Jane Borden's butchy R.A. character
Chris Kula narrating Rob as "shitty chess player."
Rob Huebel as a Guardian Angel trying to recruit people
Jackie Clarke with early versions of her one-woman show
Curtis and John improvising several sets
Charlie Sanders and Police Chief Rumble debuted their sketch Truth at Osgood.

The show was performed at the Ha! Comedy Fest in 2003.