The applause was thunderous during comedy night in the University Union Ballroom on April 2.

Trevor Moore and his troupe performed comedy sketches and songs, keeping the audience entertained and captivated. The trio jumped into their act after being received by loud audience applause and cheer.

“How old is everybody?” Moore asked the crowd for his opening question.

The group started their set by performing a song about circumcision.

UNIQUE member Leticia Garcia thought the performance would not be suitable for everyone.

“I didn’t think it was for all ages,” Garcia said.

Another scene involved the trio drawing what they did the previous evening on a white poster board. The resulting picture included a couple in bed, while a lone man watched in a “peeping tom” sort of manner.

They also showed two sketches their former TV network would not approve, and asked the audience if they could figure out why. Many audience members laughed because the reason was obviously the obscene content.

Despite the questionable content they performed, the audience’s support and amusement were apparent by the laughter and the applause that followed.

Albert Ascencio, communications studies major, said the performance lived up to the hype.

“I’ve heard of them and I wanted to come and see for myself, and I wasn’t disappointed,” Ascencio said.

The group included the audience in their performance, using volunteer audience members in several of their skits.

One scene consisted of a recess war with audience members backing the performers in a face-off. That resulted in a yell of “Charge!” and the actors, along with the volunteers, charged into each other, forming a pile of humans in the middle of the ballroom.

“They’re entertaining, they’re [interacting] with the crowd,” Ascencio said.

Volunteers were able to be part of the recess war, a reenactment of Star Wars 7 and people at a party.

Some of their compilations can be viewed as commentaries about society and problems that can be universally understood. One of the songs, the “Ballad of Billy John,” made for a particularly moving message about how online hate can spread.

The song started off sounding like a sweet country song about a couple in which the husband posted a song he sang online. He and his wife went online and were happy that the video had received so many views, but they scrolled down to the comments to see hateful and rude words from strangers.

The wife then posted a video message to those rude people, only to have her image mocked by those same people. The video ended with the husband going online and speaking to the people who mocked his wife and he used the same hateful language he initially received for his song.

Most people can relate to this kind of scenario, and the way the group used humor and imagery to explain the message was creative and still humorous.

Leticia Williams is a fan of Trevor Moore and the comedy group, and was familiar with his work but she wanted to see it in person.

“We really liked it, we’ve seen some of his stuff on YouTube,” Williams said. “He does this thing where he’s intelligent but he can present things in a funny way.”

Garcia agreed that the performance was worth seeing and the group found ways to be interactive while staying in character.

“I thought it was funny,” Garcia said. “I like that he included the audience — it was random, it wasn’t scripted.”