Students' boredom ignites comedy club
Michelle Martin
Issue date: 5/1/08 Section: TruLife
When freshmen roommates Candice Prussman and Annie Bogucki were bored one cold Saturday afternoon, they refused to give in to monotony. Instead, they formed a club.
"We just started trying to come up with something and we thought, you know what would be really fun would be to organize something," Prussman said.
Thus, Truman's comedy club was born.
"We're kind of a general comedy club," Prussman said. "What we're trying to do is to educate and entertain. We kind of want to bring in people, or put on events to where you can learn about the history of comedy, theories of comedy, but also have a lot of fun watching comedy."
Prussman and her roommate began recruiting members by standing outside and handing out flyers, she said.
"All we could do is print out handbills and just pass them out to whomever," she said. "So we got coffee and donuts and stood outside Baldwin for a couple of days, and we stood at the library, which was freezing cold."
One of the club's current members found out about the club from a flyer someone had thrown away, she said.
"[He] found out about the club from a crumpled up handbill I had given somebody," Prussman said. "He found it on the landing in Baldwin, and he picked it up and he was like, 'This looks like fun.'"
The comedy club started meeting every couple weeks at the beginning of March, usually to hang out and plan future events, she said. The next meeting is 4 p.m. Sunday in the Centennial Hall main lounge.
"It's completely laid back," Prussman said. "We're the most easy-going club. … I'd like it to be a really relaxed, fun environment and everyone just [to feel] free to say whatever idea they want in the meeting."
Possible future events include bringing more stand-up comedians to campus, trips to see live shows and events featuring comic writers for a more educational, behind-the-scenes perspective, she said.
"I think we have a lot to offer and a lot of unique, interesting things that would be a lot of fun," she said. "I think you would learn a lot."
"We just started trying to come up with something and we thought, you know what would be really fun would be to organize something," Prussman said.
Thus, Truman's comedy club was born.
"We're kind of a general comedy club," Prussman said. "What we're trying to do is to educate and entertain. We kind of want to bring in people, or put on events to where you can learn about the history of comedy, theories of comedy, but also have a lot of fun watching comedy."
Prussman and her roommate began recruiting members by standing outside and handing out flyers, she said.
"All we could do is print out handbills and just pass them out to whomever," she said. "So we got coffee and donuts and stood outside Baldwin for a couple of days, and we stood at the library, which was freezing cold."
One of the club's current members found out about the club from a flyer someone had thrown away, she said.
"[He] found out about the club from a crumpled up handbill I had given somebody," Prussman said. "He found it on the landing in Baldwin, and he picked it up and he was like, 'This looks like fun.'"
The comedy club started meeting every couple weeks at the beginning of March, usually to hang out and plan future events, she said. The next meeting is 4 p.m. Sunday in the Centennial Hall main lounge.
"It's completely laid back," Prussman said. "We're the most easy-going club. … I'd like it to be a really relaxed, fun environment and everyone just [to feel] free to say whatever idea they want in the meeting."
Possible future events include bringing more stand-up comedians to campus, trips to see live shows and events featuring comic writers for a more educational, behind-the-scenes perspective, she said.
"I think we have a lot to offer and a lot of unique, interesting things that would be a lot of fun," she said. "I think you would learn a lot."
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