Stephanie Seger had the jokes to be crowned the funniest person on campus at the Ohio Union Activities Board’s Amateur Comedy Night Finals last night.
“I couldn’t have done it without these 30 people here,” Seger said, after the event about her friends.
The runners-up were Jon Nawn, a junior in theater and Davey Berris, a sophomore in English.
Seger, a sophomore in political science, said she was excited to meet the judges – Tracy Morgan, Colin Quinn and Andy Dick – and that she was nervous performing for them.
“I’ve always enjoyed watching (Morgan and Quinn) on SNL and now I get to perform for them,” said Seger in an interview a few days before the event.
Seger, mostly performed anecdotes about her mother and friends. The comedy was built on Seger’s impersonation of her mother and the strange advice she would give.
She also talked about being drunk.
“When I get drunk, I turn into this evil alcoholism monster,” she said before re-enacting her experience. She said she turned mean, which is uncharacteristic of her.
Later when she was “puking her life out,” she thought she was dying and had her friends call 911.
That was the last and only time she’s been drunk, she said.
“She is just adorable, and that may win her the contest,” said Nawn in an interview a few days before the event.
Seger said she was so lucky to be able to know these people whom she could tell stories about.
Nawn’s act was based on his enthusiasm. He talked about working in fast food and other schools mascots being defeated by becoming ill from ingesting Brutus Buckeye.
Berris told stories from his childhood such as being intimidated at the urine trough at Browns stadium when he was four. He also talked about a condom dispenser in a bathroom containing a brand called “Thin Condoms” with the tagline “So thin you won’t even know it’s there.”
The celebrity comedians performed after the amateurs and received a favorable response from the crowd.
Morgan had a laid-back style and talked about his obsession with pornography.
Quinn mostly talked about why he dislikes America.
Dick’s routine could be summed up by his own statement:
“I’m not a good judge of stand-up because what I do isn’t really stand-up. I do stuff that gets me banned from schools like this.”