BIG, BIGGER, BIGGEST. Can Uni's annual Big Show possibly get any bigger? Each year sides are split from laughter by hilarious sketches written by Uni's finest, but what's in store for us this time around?

At the end of this week, you'll have a chance to discover for yourself what senior Big Show directors Anna Cangellaris and Eunice How have stewed up in their own pot of funny.

This year's show will wrap up X-Week on Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. in the North Attic.

Tickets are $5, but $2 will be knocked off if you bring paperback dictionaries (any language) to donate to Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners, this year's designated charity for X-Week.

There will be a lot more sketches this year, but many of them are very short, unlike last year's longer, more developed sketches.

The 35 sketches (nine of which are video) are the most random scenes you'll feast our eyes on.

"We don't have a theme," says How. "We just go with the flow. Topics include TV show parodies, Harry Potter, great big technology, and the world premiere of a rap music video."

Robbed a whole week of rehearsal time, things have been getting a little crazy behind the scenes. But as their predecessors have always done, this year's directors will pull together an amazing show for Uni audiences this weekend.

So why should students go?

Says How: "To have a splendiferous amount of laughs and to support a great charity!"

Big Show '08: Cast and Crew

• Directors
  Anna Cangellaris
  Eunice How
• Contributing Writers
  Paul Dampier
  Jake Seeley
• Cast Members
  Josh Chung, senior
  Will Erickson, subfreshman
  Anna Gooler, sophomore
  Julian Hartman, senior
  Hannah Leskosky, junior
  Alan Liang, junior
  Grant Loos, senior
  Andrea Park, senior
  Adam Tiouririne, junior
  Richard Weisbach, junior
  Carl Zielinski, senior
• Lights
  Natsuki Nakamura
• Tech Crew
  Sindha Agha
  Stephanie Overmier
  Aramael Pena-Alcantara
  Lauren Piester
• Live Music
  Josh Chung
  Julian Hartman
  Grant Loos
  Carl Zielinski

Big Show '08: Sketches

• Part I
  Deep Thought
  Pardon my French
  Burger Burger Burger
  This is Self-Referential
  FBI
  Montana
  Anyang Earbuds
  Distracted Job Interview
  Man vs. Wild
  Buy You Drink
  Condensed Harry Potter
  Shower
  The World According to Science: Mating the Grade
  TREATED
  Very Sad
  MTV Music Video World Premiere
  Elevator Safety
  Rock Band

10-minute intermission

• Part II
  Deep Thought
  Prom Narrator
  America’s Next Top Model
  Art Nouveau
  Phone Deletion
  Overused Phrases
  Platypus
  Everything Else
  Your Sister’s Hot
  E’Twaun
  The Great Debate
  The Fabulous Life
  Fitness
  Mary & Ed
  Rock Band II
• Parting Thoughts From the Directors
  "This is going to the Biggest Show ever! See you there!"