MORE COMEDY : Laugh In the New Year at Crazies Benefit

The Orange County Crazies, who have used improvisational comedy to poke fun at O.C. conservatism, Broadway musicals and hot news items, among other things, will ring out 1992 with an encore of their most popular bits from the year.

Their New Year’s Eve Benefit (for Saddleback High School in Santa Ana) will include complimentary champagne and desserts along with the two-hour performance. There will be some door prizes, too, and an auction of gag gifts. It’s all being co-sponsored by the Council of Arts and Culture in Santa Ana, where the Crazies are based.

Among the bits to be reprised for the show (all gleaned from the Crazies’ “Wizard of Orange,” “Orangelahoma” and “Raiders of the Lost Orange” revues) are a safe-sex musical parody and skits satirizing phone sex, chart-happy business executives and O.C.’s taste for nostalgic pop music, according to Cheri Kerr, director of the 3-year-old troupe. The show also will include some videotaped skits, including a TV ad parody hawking canned champagne, Kerr said.

A cast of 16 will perform, starting at 10 p.m.; the champagne starts flowing at 9. Last year’s New Year’s show sold out, Kerr said, so reservations are recommended.

The Crazies have scheduled three new revues for ‘93, Kerr added. The first--”Orange Trek--The Lost Generation”--will open Feb. 20 and will include skits on Malcolm X, Somalia and gays in the military. The group also plans a cable TV program, and will continue its improvisational comedy classes.