By JONATHAN REED
The Red & Black

Nearly a year ago, three University students got their own local television show. Unfortunately for them, it was yanked off the air after a few showings of the first episode.

Guess what – they’re back.

Waco O’Guin, Matt Chastain and Lee Sanders, the twisted student minds behind last year’s "The Damn! Show," took the summer to put together some new sketches, and tonight at The Georgia Theatre they’ll show off their new material.

"We wouldn’t even bother trying to get this on TV," said Sanders, a senior from Augusta.

Even before the planned performance, Chastain and O’Guin were out staging a minor publicity stunt. Waiting patiently in a blue trash can in front of Blue Sky Coffee, the two took turns jumping out and scaring people while wearing a wolf mask.

This same stunt, "Scary Wolf," is what got the three students on "RealTV" – their antics will air today at 4:30 p.m. on the program, usually stocked with car chases and emergency rescues.

The performance tonight will feature a compilation of skits from the first show, the never-before-seen second episode and uncensored skits from the summer.

"Our second show was even funnier than the first and much less nasty," said O’Guin, a senior from Valdosta. "But (Intermedia) still wouldn’t watch it. They wouldn’t give us a chance."

Included in the viewing tonight is the skit that got the group in trouble in the first place, "Hump Dog," wherein a dog does exactly what the title suggests to a sleeping bag.

"We’re trying to get a local Emmy for that one," said Chastain, a junior from Monticello.

In debt because they had to purchase equipment for filming the show last year, the group decided to try and make some money off the "Scary Wolf" skit by sending it to "RealTV."

At The Georgia Theatre tonight, masterminds of "The Damn! Show" will present their compiled sketches and commercial parodies, as well as stand-up comedy from Sanders and a few musical comedy numbers from Chastain.

Nearly a year after being booted from the local network, O’Guin, Sanders and Chastain are not giving any ground on what they see as comedy.

"If you cut out everything somewhat bad, there wouldn’t be a show left," Chastain said. "That’s what comedy is – you’ve got to push the edge."