skits then and now

This afternoon I attended a band picnic with my grandson and family. The carry-in food was plentiful and delicious. The rain was relentless (but happily they moved us inside) and the skits were, well, the skits were a revelation to me. When I was told that the entertainment would be skits presented by various groups in the band, the brasses, the clarinets, etc., I envisioned skits as we did them when I was in school - small groups doing little gags or song and dance routines. I was once a dancing (and I do use the term loosely) California raisin in a skit. How wrong I was. The skits I saw today were, with one exception, all prerecorded and shown as movies on a big screen in the auditorium. This allowed the skit producers to film city and country scenes, use swimming pools, cars, bicycles and one weird doll as props and generally go to great lengths to tell their stories. I found the skits humorous while the band members in the audience found them hilarious.  I think you had to know the inside jokes.