Comedy show has its hits and misses

Keeping with tradition, Sigma Alpha Delta Honor Society hosted their semi-annual comedy show featuring the New York Boyz of Comedy, a comedy group that was founded in Baruch in 2005 when the first comedy show was held. The 90-minute show was held on Tuesday, April 17 in the multipurpose room.

Hosted by founding member Victor Chu, the show was a debut for some new additions to the group including Souley Oumarou, Chun Lo, Juan Montoya, Nick Venditti and Jason Cohen.

Oumarou, accounting major, stole the show. He began by informing the audience that he was from the West African country of Niger, which is not to be confused with Nigeria, which is another country with Black people. He explained that in his country, the best mode of transport is via a donkey, which explained the enterprise rent-a-donkey stores.

Several jokes really got the audience going. "I was a vegetarian in Africa," he said, meat was hard to get considering "you have to wake up at 5:30 a.m. to chase deer for 75 miles." He finished with an impersonation of Eddie Murphy from Coming to America.

"The two new comedians, Souley and Chun, were original. They had an adequate performance for their first time," said Emmanuel Onyenyili, junior.

Brenton Land, another founding member, got the audience riled up in claiming that the characters from the Winnie the Pooh show are on drugs - Winnie the Pooh is a pothead, Piglet is on ecstasy, Igor is an alcoholic and Tigger is the biggest crackhead of them all.

Of the host's performance, senior Elizabeth Sheyenko said that he was lively, but noticeably tried "too hard" with many of his jokes.

Another hit of the night was Max May, also a founding member, who managed to make the audience grab their seats in laughter with his cheesy one-liners. "They arrested a black cannibal who only ate white people. That means that he liked to eat crackers," he joked.

Sheyenko thought that May was the funniest comedian of the night. "I liked his style and his jokes were creative. He had good, funny energy," she said. One thing that disappointed her about the show was that the audience was not filled. "Free comedy and free snacks, what more can you ask for?"