Comics entertain in College Theater last weekend
Melissa Tinklepaugh
Issue date: 4/25/08 Section: A&E
The Center Diversity sponsored a comedy show the night of April 17 with host Mike Vecchione and comics Kurt Metger and Marc Theobald.
The comics performed acts targeted towards the diverse audience that filled the College Theater. The event was also part of the agenda for Multicultural Weekend, in which SUNY Potsdam sponsored a bus trip from the New York City area to bring diverse applicants to experience SUNY Potsdam's campus and student life.
Vecchione, who has been on XM Satellite Radio, performed for a half hour and also introduced the night's two comedians. He set the night's focus towards its diverse audience by asking the crowd about its ethnicity. He went on to include former New York governor Eliot Spitzer into his act, discuss gangs, and joke about drugs.
According to Vecchione, he has a "cop-look," which he incorporated into jokes about pretending to be a cop or why he couldn't be an undercover cop. He also asked the audience about the local night life and joked about haunted houses, raising children, Catholic mass, former and dream jobs, and sex.
Secondly, Metger began with jokes about Mexicans and their tradition of hot food in a hot country. He also joked about AIDS and sex. At one point, he compared sex to a friend letting him play a Playstation 3, implying that a woman should treat sex the same way because a friend would be generous enough to share his PS3.
Other jokes included the topics of drugs, the television show To Catch a Predator, plastic surgery, weird things found in the human body stemming from a television show, and pretending to be a gynecologist. Metger also introduced politics and race into his act; he spoke about Barack Obama, dating a Greek girl and the social traditions included, and black Israelites, which led to jokes about Jesus's race and religion.
Introduced by Vecchione, Marc Theobald performed last. During his act, he successfully and humorously imitated accents such as English and Trinidad. He joked about living on campus during his college days when he had a Resident Assistant that smoked weed. He joked about the differences between men and women planning for sex. Women tend to plan the night in advance whereas a man hopes that the roommate won't be home, leading Theobald to joke about his college roommate who never left the room.
The comics performed acts targeted towards the diverse audience that filled the College Theater. The event was also part of the agenda for Multicultural Weekend, in which SUNY Potsdam sponsored a bus trip from the New York City area to bring diverse applicants to experience SUNY Potsdam's campus and student life.
Vecchione, who has been on XM Satellite Radio, performed for a half hour and also introduced the night's two comedians. He set the night's focus towards its diverse audience by asking the crowd about its ethnicity. He went on to include former New York governor Eliot Spitzer into his act, discuss gangs, and joke about drugs.
According to Vecchione, he has a "cop-look," which he incorporated into jokes about pretending to be a cop or why he couldn't be an undercover cop. He also asked the audience about the local night life and joked about haunted houses, raising children, Catholic mass, former and dream jobs, and sex.
Secondly, Metger began with jokes about Mexicans and their tradition of hot food in a hot country. He also joked about AIDS and sex. At one point, he compared sex to a friend letting him play a Playstation 3, implying that a woman should treat sex the same way because a friend would be generous enough to share his PS3.
Other jokes included the topics of drugs, the television show To Catch a Predator, plastic surgery, weird things found in the human body stemming from a television show, and pretending to be a gynecologist. Metger also introduced politics and race into his act; he spoke about Barack Obama, dating a Greek girl and the social traditions included, and black Israelites, which led to jokes about Jesus's race and religion.
Introduced by Vecchione, Marc Theobald performed last. During his act, he successfully and humorously imitated accents such as English and Trinidad. He joked about living on campus during his college days when he had a Resident Assistant that smoked weed. He joked about the differences between men and women planning for sex. Women tend to plan the night in advance whereas a man hopes that the roommate won't be home, leading Theobald to joke about his college roommate who never left the room.
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