The Daily Campus

Issue date: 3/4/09 Section: Focus

Media Credit: Nick Hart After illness made the Comedy Central performer postpone his original show last month, Nick Swardson (above) entertains a sold-out crow at Tuesday night at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.

Raunchy stories about drinking, marijuana, homoerotic misunderstandings and monkeys had the large and lively audience applauding comedian Nick Swardson at the Jorgensen Center for Performing Arts Tuesday night.

Swardson, 32, is well-known for his unmistakable recurring role as Terry Bernardino in Comedy Central's "Reno 911!" and works closely with Adam Sandler in many Happy Madison productions.

Swardson then stormed the stage donning a UConn hat and causing the first ruckus with his mere presence.

"I thought this place was like an hour from Manhattan. Then three hours later we turn off the freeway and we're in f------ Narnia," he said.

He congratulated UConn for the women's and men's basketball teams' snatching first place, and suggested the women's team go win the war in Iraq for the United States because of their undefeated record. "And where the f--- is [Hasheem] Thabeet?!" he said, scanning the audience for the unmistakable player.

Other than these few UConn jokes, most of Swardson's material involved phallic imagery or being really drunk or high, which always musters big laughs from a group of college students, he said.

In one particularly memorable bit, Swardson proudly claimed his love of alcohol and talked about the absurd experiences he has when he's drunk.

"Nothing bothers me when I'm drunk," he said. "And drunk chicks? The ones who are overly confident about their drinking abilities at the bar and challenge you to five Jagerbombs - they are so fun."

He then acted out a series of the classic downward spiral of a "drunk chick after five Jagerbombs" - vomiting and crying, then looking for her friends.

"I love Nick Swardson and was so pumped he was coming to UConn," said Joanna Cambria, a 4th-semester psychology major. "And the 'drunk girl' bit was hilarious and unfortunately accurate."

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