They are probably sitting somewhere near you, but you might not know it. Perhaps they are the person whose nose is stuck in a book sitting beside you on Cy-Ride. By day, they are just average students. But come showtime, they are outrageous.

They are Grandma Mojo’s Moonshine Revival and they just want to have some fun.

“We try to offend everybody,” said Becky Witt, one of the founding Moonshiners. “We’re equal opportunity offenders you could say.”

The cast of the sketch comedy troupe is made up of 13 Iowa State students and a roster of characters that includes everyone from Christ to Ronald McDonald (not the burger hawking clown.)

Inspired by the fun and antics they shared in the former sketch comedy act known as Mighty Monkey Power Hour, Witt a junior in psychology, along with civil engineering senior Josh Bryner and graphic design senior Mark Leiknes, decided to start another troupe. Auditions were held in the fall, and since its first show at the Maintenance Shop, GMMR has consistently sold-out every show.

“We really missed doing [Mighty Monkey Power Hour] but then we thought, ‘why can’t we start our own show?” Bryner said. Bryner said the fact that GMMR has more women than Mighty Monkey adds more variety to the comedy displayed by the former.

“I think it’s one of the best things we did,” he said of casting more women. “It opens up what we can do comedic.”

Witt agrees. Being the only woman in Mighty Monkey, she was ready to share the spotlight with more funny ladies.

“Most sketch comedy is with men,” she explained. “We’re trying to break boundaries. Women add a different flavor.”

The flavor of GMMR is “outright, below-the-belt college humor,” Witt said. All members contribute to the writing of the skits and many have reoccurring characters.

One of Bryner’s is “The Amazing Joshereeno,” someone he called his “alter-ego.”

“The Amazing Joshereeno is an escape artist like Harry Houdini,” he said. “Only his escapes aren’t that great. He once took his right hand and put it round his left wrist and escaped. That was his trick.”

But don’t expect any of the Moonshiners to be hamming it up in class. On the contrary, they save it for the stage.

“Most of us are typical people,” Bryner said. “We don’t look like the kind of person who’d be up on stage.”

Grandma Mojo’s Moonshine Revival takes over the M-Shop tonight at 10 p.m. Admission is $1 and seats go fast.