Author: Jacob Smith

Jacob Smith is a comedy writer and student at the University of Missouri. Yay debt! He's also a writer, director, and performer of sketch comedy with the troupe Battlewhale. When he's not writing comedy, you can find him poorly singing Christmas music and gossiping with moms.

Amidst the malaria, raw sewage, and shade thrown by Christ the Redeemer in Rio, thousands of adults are playing sports. Believe it or not, some of the people playing sports are women, which is, quite frankly, shocking. How can someone who didn’t learn how to vote until 1920 (in the United States) become so good at sports? I guess they were so busy tossing the ole pigskin around that they didn’t realize how oppressed they were. It’s amazing how far they’ve come. If they didn’t figure out how to vote until a mere ninety-six years ago, how do we explain…

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