Just hours before the fifth annual Sketchfest NYC opens tonight at the UCB Theatre in NYC, Blog Stage spoke with some of the members of Murderfist, an 11-person sketch comedy group performing tonight as part of the festival. The group describes itself as “a journey to the extreme horizon of your mind-ocean. Winston-Salems, a couple of old chubbies, a horse with a banana in it’s mouth, a man dressed up like a doctor, some Peppercorn schnapps and Monster Mash playing on repeat, Murderfist is going to get loud and get weird and this show may just help the pain of being alive.”

Like The Money Kids (read yesterday’s Blog Stage Q&A with the comedy duo here), Murderfist was accepted into the three-day sketch comedy festival after wowing producers at a live audition in February. (Back Stage posted the casting notice for auditions. Did any Back Stage readers try out?)

We were too afraid to talk to all 11 of the funny people of Murderfist at once, but Henry Zabrowski, Holden McNeely, Ed Larson, and Tim Dean took the time to talk about their audition, creating sketch comedy, and getting “Late and Dirty.” Dean says that everyone in the group can call themselves a writer-director-performer, but McNeely also calls himself the town drunk.

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