Myth of the Eternal Return-- An Appeal

Do I need to offer a defense of our project? Should I offer apologies? Man, you guys were a tough crowd. It was kind of brutal standing up after the presentation was over. Perhaps our focus was too much on the lowbrow? Too demotic? The connection to the highbrow not obvious enough as a character from Samuel Beckett (who most everyone seems to admire & "get") walking across the stage counting his farts? Maybe everyone was too embarrassed to laugh while at the university where we feel the need to act like rigid intellectuals? I don't know.

Typically people don't like to admit it when things don't go the way they thought it would. When we were practicing this skit I was thinking "we're probably going to have to pause here for laughs to die down". Nope. Didn't have to pause ever. Maybe we took to lowbrow, the "lowest of the lowbrow", and portrayed it as highbrow making some scoff with distaste. Not obviously "artsy" enough? Did you think that this humor was too sophomoric? Too pre-teen? Well, if some of you have "grown up" to much to laugh at a good fart but outside of class find Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow scripts consistently humorous then sucks to be you.