STAND UP

So here are all the final details:

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
7 PM
CGS 511
with ROB O'REILLY and CHRISTIAN LYNCH

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
8 PM
BU CENTRAL (in the GSU)
with ROB O'REILLY, CHRISTIAN LYNCH, possibly MYQ KAPLAN and hopefully GREG WHITE and BEN SIMPSON performing his world-renowned GSU JOKE

I hear what you're saying. "Gee, Chris. I've been to like three of your shows and I'm a little sick of it. Frankly, you're not that funny. So why should I come to these?"

Well that's some attitude, Mister.

But anyway, let's run down why you should go to each show.

First off, they're both free. The only thing to be spent is your precious time, but really, what would be doing anyway? Getting "wasted" at one of those "kegger"s you kids are always going to? What a pathetic waste you are. Get high on laughter. If you laugh hard enough after all, it will cut off oxygen to the brain and you will have some sort of natural high. Or get light-headed and pass out, one of the two. Or both.

So first there's Wednesday. Why go on Wednesday? Well, besides the fact that Christian is very funny and Rob just came in fifth out of 96 in the Boston Comedy Festival (grand prize was $10,000), I will be debuting two new jokes (and possibly more if I write them between now and then) and maybe--just maybe; I make no guarantees--you will see improv group Clownin' Aroun' (or rather a skit Christian and I wrote backstage while we talked about how much we hated improv as Improv Asylum killed after the audience basically yawned through us and Slow Kids). If we can pull it off in time (and again, no guarantees as this is a pretty complex skit), it will be great.

And then there's Friday. "On a Friday night?" you say. "Waaah!" Well you should come because it is the first round of BU's Funniest Student Competition so some support would be helpful. Also, listen to this description:

Three judges will score your act on a scale of 1-10 and will also give you an "American Idol"-like critique.

Could be pretty great. Based on the list of people the email was sent to, Christian and Rob will be there along with a couple kids I don't know and the very funny Myq Kaplan--a grad student whose role in all this I am unsure of. He could be a judge but I'm hoping he'll perform because he's very good (and he will defeat me easily but then so will Rob and probably Christian too no matter what happens).

But of course you've probably already decided to come on Friday anyway because you read this:

BEN SIMPSON performing his world-renowned GSU JOKE

BEN SIMPSON performing his world-renowned GSU JOKE

BEN SIMPSON performing his world-renowned GSU JOKE

Yup. So I guess I'll see you there then.