Comedy Central on Campus brought three of its favorite, hot, upcoming comedians to the LSU Student Union Theatre Thursday evening.
Kevin Barnett from MTV2’s “Guy Code,” Thomas Middleton from the HBO Series “Silicon Valley” and T.J. Miller from “She’s Out of My League” gave individual stand-up performances discussing race, homophobia, drugs, puking, Evian Natural Mineral Water Facial Spray and much more.
“I’m here to talk about some real shit,” Miller said.
The show began with a performance from the winner of LSU’s Last Comic Standing Amber Arnold, also known as “Candy Rox,” who was able to hang out backstage with the comedians before and after the show. Arnold, a biology sophomore, made jokes about how she takes pride in being white and how she has plans to claim friends’ possessions once they die.
Following her performance, Barnett came on stage. Before the show, Barnett said if it was his last day on earth and he could only do one thing, he would do as many back flips as he can do drunk.
“I’ve tried drunk backflips before, but that was back in the day when I didn’t believe in myself,” Barnett said. “I think I can do about eight and a half.”
When asked to describe himself, Barnett jokingly responded with “black, hats and tired.”
He explained to the audience that he and his friends consider themselves heavy pranksters and described his most memorable pranks, which include convincing his homophobic friend that he performed sexual acts with another male while intoxicated at a club.
Middleton came to the stage next for his stand-up performance of “whimsical jokes.” The Canadian comedian compared the University to Hogwarts and told the audience his best puke story from a scuba diving trip in Australia.
“They are swimming and floating, and all of the sudden little yellow remnants start floating down and next thing I know, they are playing with my vomit,” Middleton said.
Miller gave the last stand-up performance in which he discussed his Raising Cane’s Saturday obsession, how it is difficult for a man to take a good picture of a woman and his marijuana use. He also said he considers himself a radical and progressive feminist.
“Why are there no snow women?” Miller said. “Why are we teaching our young women every winter that we must build men up in our society just to see them melt away in the summer like a bad fourth of alcohol?”
The crowd erupted in laughter as Miller described how he would create a snow women by carving breasts.
Miller also threw giveaways into the crowd including one of his Comedy Central specials on DVD, his fake album, a remix CD to his fake album and Koozies.
The show ended with Middleton joining Miller on stage for an improvisational performance of a summer job as a lifeguard gone wrong.