In a Wedgwood House decorated almost exclusively with frogs, six Maple Daddies sit around a table.

“I have acquired the four bags of lizards,” Darrin Schultz says.

“I didn’t make it to Spirit Halloween,” Courtney Heuer says. She needed pitchforks and a tiny hat. She’ll try again tomorrow. She did have at least one success, though. She reported she had started the homunculus costume. According to 16th-century alchemy, a homunculus is a miniature person. Heuer’s homunculus so far was two sweatshirts sewn together with two face holes. She still needed to sew pants together, but then it would be done. Which was a good thing because there was so little time until the show.

The 26th annual SketchFest Seattle, the longest-running sketch comedy festival in North America, was the following weeke

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