Stand up comedian gives stand up performance

Owen Smith joked about one-night stands, terrorists, condoms and his mother. The crowd laughed hysterically at one joke about the no handed marching band member playing his instrument with his feet.

The comedian performed his stand-up routine at 7th Street Underground at Eastern on Friday.

The event started at 9 p.m. with more than 200 students present.

Eastern is one school of 100 that Smith will tour until early next year. He recently visited Hiram College and University of Akron in Ohio. He will be in Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin in Whitewater and Plattesville this week.

“Some schools really get comedy like y’all,” Smith said about Eastern, which is nearly the sixtieth on his tour. “So I didn’t have to teach you guys the jokes.”

The show began with Smith talking about college life.

“There are some classes that you are just goin’ to miss,” he said. “Nobody wants to add letters of the alphabet at 8 o’clock in the morning. Of course I skipped the class.”

Many of the jokes described the college lifestyle: “This is the only time in your life that you will ever be able to get a girl into a bunk bed.”

Smith also talked about his experiences with drugs and how an accident on a brand new white couch and floor taught him never to eat psychedelic mushrooms again.

Airports were among Smith’s jokes at the expense of the new policies about bringing liquids on the plane.

“I was excited I was goin’ to see somebody get messed up, and then I noticed it was me that was going to be beat up, all for walking around with a bottle of water. It’s nuts man.” Smith even referred to his own life experiences: “I was born in the West Indies, Nassau in the Bahamas. Yeah, I moved over here when I was one, man. I needed work.”

Smith has a regular spot on “Everybody Hates Chris” on the new station, the CW.

Smith can also be seen in “Gilmore Girls” and the movie “When a Stranger Calls.” With hopes of starting his own TV show, Smith would also like to work in more movies and production.

“I don’t want to be just a good comic I want to be a great comic,” Smith said as he discussed his plans for the future.

Smith has his own Web sites: www.myspace.com with a full schedule of his shows, www.facebook.com and www.owensmithlive.com, which is currently under construction. Smith also has a clip of his act on www.comdeycentral.com.