The Whitest Kids U'Know on "The Whitest Kids U'Know"

We've all enjoyed great sketch comedy, suffered through terrible sketch comedy and furrowed our brows at totally inexplicable sketch comedy. But how does sketch comedy, you know, work? I sat down with Sam Brown and Trevor Moore of IFC's own sketch comedy show "The Whitest Kids U'Know" to find out how the magic happens.

What's your writing process like?

Trevor Moore: Everything's written different ways. If someone has an idea for a sketch, they can come in and be like, "I really want to do this," but when we're actually writing for a deadline, we're like, "Okay, everybody take five minutes and write down as many ideas as come to mind." And then we go around the circle, and it's everybody pitching out their ideas. And we'll just kind of be like, "Okay, that one—" depending on what everybody laughs at.

Sam Brown: And a lot of times it'll even get to the point where we'll work on something until we decide, "Eh, maybe it wasn't the best idea."

TM: Yeah, and then some of our sketches are like— you know, Sam's nut popping out in the first episode of season two. That just came about when we were outside of one of our live shows...

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Tags: Sam Brown, The Whitest Kids You Know, Trevor Moore