The Chosen Ones

Sunee Dhaliwal

One of the benefits of working at a college is ready and inexpensive access to all kinds of entertainment events.

Last night Keith and I attended Comedy Night at the college, a student fundraiser sponsored by Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

As usual, Keith suggested we sit at the back, worried that we might be singled out in the front rows or worse, asked to come up on stage.

We were a little worried that the dialogue would be full of f-bombs or not suitable for our older sensibilities.

The first comic asked for volunteers to be on stage and sure enough picked a couple of women in the second row. Whew!

We were pleasantly surprised to find the comedians 'laugh out loud' funny, clean and thoroughly entertaining and we weren't the only people over 30 in attendance.

The last comic was particularly hilarious and really engaged the crowd.

He described the 'exciting' towns he's travelled to on the comedy circuit and asked if anyone had been to Whitehorse.  Innocently I raised my hand. He pointed at me and asked "Why?" I replied: "For work". He said: "Of course" and asked: "Why else would anyone go there?" Yada yada.

He later singled out Keith who he pointed at and called "The teacher at the back who claps twice after each joke". He then referred to him several times as "Mr. Double Clap".

At the end of the show he came up to us with a big smile on his face and apologized saying: "With the lights shining on my face you were the only two people I could see!"

So, in future we'll sit in the middle!