By Don Mayhew / Fresno Bee staff

You know how "Saturday Night Live" skits typically have a clever premise but go on waaaaaay too long? The four members of Dynamite Kablammo have solved that problem.

During the quartet's solid hour of rapid-fire sketch comedy at Dianna's Studio of Dance South on Sunday night, I counted 25 songs, monologues, skits and bits of other nonsense. (It's possible I missed a couple. You'd need faster fingers than I own - and a calculator - to keep up.) Do the math: Few of the skits approached three minutes. Most were a lot less.

Sitting through a Dynamite Kablammo show is a little like getting into a tickle fight with the Invisible Man. You see little of it coming, it'll leave you breathless, and it's probably for the best if you just give in and let yourself giggle.

The funniest moments relied on clever "what if?" premises. What if we caught up with Romeo and Juliet for their five-year anniversary? What if the police officer who pulled you over were blind? What if the computer operating the checkout scanner at the neighborhood grocer were sentient, fell in love with one of the employees - and she returned its amorous advances?

If some of the bits were little more than an extended one-liner (or tax writeoff), they were over before you knew it. If you don't find the salad forks used as giant tick fangs by themselves worth the price of admission, then make sure to stick around for the end of the show.

Why? Two words: Spit Baby.

Playing: 10 p.m. Thursday (3/6), 8:30 p.m. Friday (3/7), 2:30 and 4 p.m. Saturday (3/8). Cost: $5. Rating: PG-13.