This past Friday night, UNH welcomed the comedic trio Black and White and Red All Over. The term itself is normally associated with a newspaper or some poor black and white animal in a blender.
For the 125-150 students who overcame the rain and saw the show, the term will now be associated with hilarious standup comedy.
The group features comedians from the New York area - Omar Thompson, TJ Del Reno and Warren Holstein. Thompson described the chemistry between the three.
"Warren is the business guy, TJ is the young nerd guy, and I am in the middle," he said.
The idea of the group came from Holstein, who realized the three of them together had an interesting dynamic.
Thompson came out with energy. Thompson did a lot of material that many students could relate to - intense Boston sports fans, dating, old school Nintendo, finding God through Myspace, even expensive books.
"Eight-hundred dollars for a book, and when I sold it back I got 10 bucks and a pack of gum," said Thompson.
Thompson, a black comedian from Harlem, N.Y., has been on MTV, BET and the Apollo stage three times. Each time he performs with a passion. At one point during the show Thompson asked the audience how many black people were in the crowd. He counted three.
"I wanted to give some racial material but give plenty of things you guys can relate to," said Thompson.
Thompson ended strong and introduced Del Reno, the next comedian.
Del Reno, a comedian from New Jersey, now lives in Brooklyn. He had a conversation with a student in the back of the audience who was from Boston and had the accent Del Reno loved making fun of - saying the accent sounds like ducks quacking. The last time he was with a girl from Boston, Del Reno said he didn't know if he should get her number or feed her bread.
Del Reno joked about his college experience. He majored in art but said he would have been better off majoring in goblins because at least he would be a level 8 by now.
He talked about video games, Transformers and the correlation with being a geek and one's love life. He talked about old Nickelodeon shows, such as GUTS, Legends of the Hidden Temple and Double Dare.
Del Reno described his childhood and heritage. He's half Italian and half Apache. He makes up the "red" in the group's name. Thompson came out for two minutes, just long enough to talk politics, stressing how important it is to vote. Then he introduced Warren Holstein who wasn't afraid to talk politics either.
Holstein is the opposite of both Del Reno and Thompson. Del Reno is about 5 feet, 6 inches tall and Warren stands at 6 feet, 5 inches. Holstein, a comedian from Queens, has been on MTV, SNL and VH1.
He talked mostly about being Jewish. He said that Jewish people have the worst holidays. Holstein said the recipe for a good holiday is celebrating with things unrelated to the holiday. "Christmas, snowman, reindeer, candy, presents, and, oh yeah, Jesus was born," he said.
Holstein talked about McCain - his surplus in age and lack of arm mobility. He compared Sarah Palin to Arnold Schwarzenegger but the audience as a whole didn't respond as well as he would have liked.
He realized the students were responding better to the non-political humor so he focused the rest of his time on other categories. Holstein talked about long-term relationships, overly sensitive friends and dumb anti-marijuana advertisements.
"At points it dragged, but there were also a lot of parts that were really funny," said UNH sophomore Kim Swanton. "They had mixed intense subject matter with things we could relate with."
UNH sophomore Evan Monty agreed.
"I thought it was good how they could make fun of themselves and certain things they talked about," said Monty.
Crystal Reid, a freshman at UNH, laughed throughout the night. "It was hilarious," she said.
Dave Zamansky, the MUB assistant director, thought the night was a success, but said he wanted the group to involve more their name's message in the act.
"The only thing that I was actually hoping for was a little more of the diversity aspect throughout the show," he said.
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