Homecoming week begins with laughs

 
Southern’s homecoming week opened with comedy at the 2012 Comedy Show hosted by Cocoa Brown and featuring Benji Brown and Ronnie Jordan in F.G. Clark Activity Center, Monday.
Cocoa Brown engaged the audience asking, “Where’s the love SU?”
Brown followed her introduction with a rant about the bigger girls wearing too little clothing.
“You walk in the club with a tube top on and you can’t even put your arms down, looking like Iron Man,” Brown said.
Brown, a Newport News, Va., native and comedian for 16 years, said that when she does her shows, she just wants her audience to walk away with a little bit of wisdom.
“I try to teach them between my jokes.  I have a lot of experiences, gained a lot of wisdom in 40 years.  When I switch around and do colleges, I want to give my sisters a head’s up about a lot of things,” Brown said.
Brown said she does not want ladies to waste 20 years like she said she has done.
“So, I hope they take away a little bit of knowledge along with laughs,” said Brown.
She said she is the type of comic who does not tell jokes; instead she tells truth.
“It’s all about putting that truth out there.  That’s why I talk about safe sex and I talk about how women need to handle hers,” Brown said.
Brown said, “It all boils down to we rule the world.  Every man chases us and every gay man wants to be us…Let’s keep it real, women rule the and we must conduct ourselves and accept it,” Brown said.
Next on the line-up was comedian Benji Brown, who’s known for the infamous ‘Keke’ impersonation.
Brown began his show with the question, “Where are all you single ladies?”
According to Brown, the ladies that clapped and applauded after his question, he called them lonely and made a mockery of their loneliness in song.
Then Brown posed another question, “Where are all the people in relationships?”
Again, once the audience clapped and applauded in the same manner, he said jokingly, “He doesn’t want you.”
Once Brown was finished joking around with the people in relationships, he then warned the crowd by stating, “Ladies, you better be careful, it’s that time of the year.”
Referring to ‘cuffing season’ he said, “Ladies, I sympathize with you all.”
Miami native, said when he does his shows, he wants his crowd to know that they had a good time and he has given them the best that he has given them the best that he can give and for his audience to want more of him.
“Once they see me, I want to leave a lasting impression,” Brown said.
He said has been blessed to accomplish such task as to leaving his audience with wanting more from his shows.
“I want to continue to keep that going,” Brown said.
With nearly 15 years experience, Brown said with the delivery of his shows, they are versatile because he is very versatile too.
“I’m able to adjust.  I pride myself on being versatile.  Whatever the genre, whatever the age group, I am able to perform, pretty much, in front of anybody,” Brown, said.
Lastly, to perform at the comedy show was comedian Ronnie Jordan.
Jordan began his performance with a statement about the social network, Twitter.
Jordan asked, “Don’t you just get tired of people saying stuff on Twitter?”
Jordan stated that people are very bold on Twitter because they say what they want.
He continued his performance by recognizing and doing a roll call with the Greeks.
Jordan called each Greek’s name and then told them to acknowledge themselves and to do their distinct calls.
Jordan said, with all jokes aside, he wants his audience to know that everyone is different.
“You don’t have to be from a certain area to get a certain joke.  If it’s funny, it’s funny,” said Jordan.
Jordan said that each of his shows is different.  “A show I do at Southern would be different from a show I would do in Vermont,” Jordan said.