PLYMOUTH – “Thank you so much, it is such a pleasure to be here in the middle of f***ing no where [followed by a roar of laughter],” it’s Christian Finnegan’s opener, yea the Chapelle Show guy, who continues on to state that, “I think I saw a tumbleweed…and what a beautiful theatre we’re in, is there an airline hanger we could hang out in?”
As if chocolate drop, tater sack races, sports events, midnight madness and ZOX were not enough, PACE had to call on the comedians from VH1’s hit show, “Best Week Ever”, to give PSUers a good dose of comic relief.
Students flocked to the courtroom Saturday night to see the famed comedians bring to PSU a live act of their weekly show. The panelists for Saturday night’s show were host, Paul Scheer, and comedians Danielle Schneider, Aziz Ansari, and Christian Finnegan.
The four comedians arrived in Manchester, NH at 1 pm, Saturday. After dinner at Chili’s, that consisted of an Awesome Blossom, which, according to Schneider was “not nearly enough fried.” The four were then ushered to Plymouth by Executive Limo Service.
Once in Plymouth it was a free-for-all at the M ountain View Snackbar. “I had three Vitamin Waters,” exclaims Scheer, “the Formula 50, it has 50% of your daily vitamins.” Scheer also agrees that the Lemonade flavored one is quite good as well. “We had as many gummy bears as we could,” said Schenider.
Plymouth State is not the first school to have the honor of hosting such comic geniuses. The group has made their cameo’s at other schools such as Seattle, Texas, Albany, and GW. “It’s what we do on the weekends,” adds Scheer.
And the four do it so well. Aziz Ansari hit a hot note. He starts talking about Desparate Housewives, ehh nothing; Kanye West’s beats, still nothing; R. Kelly’s “In the closet”episode, alright he’s got us warmed up. Then…”You guys must use MySpace and Facebook [hooting from the crowd]. People go apeshit when I say Facebook [more hooting].” Ansari takes a moment and laughs, “You went apeshit twice. You went apeshit over an online social network.”
How does someone top Facebook? At this point, you can’t. So, it was time to make fun of stars. Among the victims are Haulk Hogan, Lindsay Lohan, Carrot Top just for being Carrot Top, Tyra Banks for the autenticity of her chest, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes for their “Immaculate conception” and Gwen Stefani for her song “Hollaback Girl.” A “Hollaback girl is a girl that is nice to your face and talks about you behind your back.” Scheider continues, “I thought that was your best friend.”
And it wouldn’t be the Best Week Ever at Plymouth if we didn’t have a student taking home the title of “Having the Best Week Ever.” The contestants were pulled at random from the crowd.
First we had Chris Anderson, who was having the best week ever because his roommate was gone for the weekend.
“I fell off a golf cart and broke my tailbone and got runover,” is why Danielle Solak has had the best week ever. She was probably happy just to be alive.
“I got so shitfaced last night,” states Craig Harper (aka Bones or Fuzznuts) “that I fell out of my bed and can’t remember a damn thing.” And that’s why Harper had a great week.
And the fourth and last contestant, Kelly Keena, says that she had the best week ever due to the fact that she had not been to class in a week and got really drunk and doesn’t remember. Finnegan adds that “With that skirt everyone in the front row is having the best week ever.”
It was unanimous, Kelly Keena had the best week ever due to neglecting her courses for a week and not being able to recall why. “I feel wonderful, I haven’t won anything [before], I feel special,” comments Keena.
In the end though, everyone should be able to say they had the Best Week Ever. Cheers to a great Homecoming 2005!