The Journal

Issue date: 2/5/09 Section: Lifestyle

Media Credit: SARA FRIESZ Comedian and musician Evan Wecksell performs in the University Center Sunnen Lounge on Thursday, Jan. 29 after a two-day snow delay. Wecksell performed jokes not just about pop culture - including Miley Cyrus - but about things specific to Webster University - including parking and the fraternity.

"I could do a whole hour on how you guys are called the Gorloks," said comedian and musician Evan Wecksell to an audience of Webster University students and staff on Jan. 29. "It sounds like something out of a 'Lord of the Rings' movie."
The hour-long performance, which was originally scheduled for Jan. 27 but was postponed due to inclement weather, featured not only Wecksell's routine material, but also quite a bit of original material aimed at WU.
Wecksell spent Thursday morning walking around WU, visiting with students and learning about the campus. Despite going to Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, the event was cancelled on Jan. 26 because of weather. Some of his jokes focused on WU sports, parking, extra-curricular groups and, of course, the mascot. Because he'd spent time with students, his jokes had more of an inside feel to them, rather than just poking fun at different WU groups.
"I liked the top 10 things about Webster," said Tierra Gray, a freshman film production major, referring to the list in which Wecksell cited high points he saw about WU, based on what he learned from speaking with students.
Among Wecksell's top 10 points were that the art building is now asbestos free, that if a student finds parking he or she knows it will be a good day, that if a major gets too hard students can make up their own and that no one ever knows when a Conservatory member will burst into song.
Wecksell also created a contest in which four audience members wrote their own version of a The Journal Misdemeanor and Mishap. The winning writer was Miranda Donley, an interactive digital media and dance major, who's blotter involved a boyfriend of one roommate drinking all of the other roommate's milk. Donley said she won a free copy of Wecksell's compilation of live and prerecorded music on CD.

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