Posted on 08/10/2015 8:50:55 AM PDT by OddLane
hree comics sat around a café table in the chilly atrium of the Minneapolis Convention Center, talking about how to create the cleanest possible set. “Don’t do what’s in your gut,” Zoltan Kaszas said. “Better safe than sorry,” Chinedu Unaka offered. Feraz Ozel mused about the first time he’d ever done stand-up: three minutes on giving his girlfriend herpes and banging his grandma. That was out.
This was not a case of professionals approaching a technical problem as an intellectual exercise. Money was riding on the answer. They had come to Minneapolis in the middle of a brutal winter for the annual convention of the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA), to sell themselves and their comedy on the college circuit.
Representatives of more than 350 colleges had come as well, to book comics, musicians, sword swallowers, unicyclists, magicians, hypnotists, slam poets, and every kind of boat act, inspirational speaker, and one-trick pony you could imagine for the next academic year.
For the comics, the college circuit offers a lucrative alternative to Chuckle Hut gigs out on the pitiless road, spots that pay a couple hundred bucks and a free night in whatever squat the club owner uses to warehouse out-of-town talent.
College gigs pay easily a grand a night—often much more—and they can come in a firecracker string, with relatively short drives between schools, each hour-long performance paid for (without a moment’s ugliness or hesitation) by a friendly student-activities kid holding out a check and hoping for a selfie. For all these reasons, thousands of comics dream of being invited to the convention.
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The beginning of the title is the punch line to one of my favorite light bulb jokes:
“How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?”
Let me guess - they aren't Norwegian.
That’s a fine-looking lineup Sarge, but don’t forget Rodney Carrington!
Jerry Seinfeld has spoken about this himself. He never does college gigs because they have no sense of humor. Everything must be politically correct.
Yeah, kid, banging your grandma jokes are definitely politically incorrect these days. But give the Media a few more years of brainwashing us, then that will probably become the new “norm,” too, like gay marriage is today.
Just wait it out, kiddo.
“THAT’S NOT FUNNY!”
"It's a family act..."
“How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?”
3.
3? Why?
WHY DO YOU HAVE TO QUESTION EVERYTHING I DO!
Minneapolis. Throw in St Paul as well. The most humorless places I have lived.
Interesting article (and at the bottom, I learned that chewing ice is bad for your teeth, just like my mom always said).
College kids have been through there formative years and continue to be indoctrinated into the demented liberal mindset, those who resist are subject to extreme coercion, it is in fact child abuse.
Can’t blame the kids their parents have gotten what they are paying for.
Then in came the new comics for which no topic was off limits. The comedy subjects became much wider, the language became more uh diverse i.e. dirtier, and comics had free rein to say just about anything.
So it's curious that fifty years later during this "great" age of liberal comics their intended college audiences will not laugh at anything that does fit into the p.c. world created by liberals. Ironic, isn't it?
This age of p.c correctness on college campi coincides with the rise and dominance of females on campi. Females are now the majority of most of the nations's campi. It's well known that male (often very nasty) humor does not go down well with females.
Add to that the growth of the femi-nazis i.e liberal fascists who proliferate on college campi, and you have the ingredients of the p.c. culture where nothing untoward is permitted.
Not a chance. Not PC enough
If I was a comedian I’d develop a routine where I stick it to these institutionalized college students from start to finish. That’ll learn ‘em!
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