Show Provides Laughs Marc Young Campus Editor A waitress speaking to a moderately large audience from center stage admits she has a problem she feeds customers regular dressing in lieu of fat free dressing Continuing she explains how she enjoys watching the unwitting patron really enjoy the fat free dress dress- ing She speaks as though she has an illness although she tries to stop she cant can't help it Especially when a group from Weight Watchers sits down and orders a salad with fat free dressing She delights as she watches them and listens in on them The audience to which she speaks laughs heartily The womans woman's name is Jenny Hegal and she is a performer and member of The Second City comedy ensemble She played with Brenden Dowling Ithamar Enriquez Niki Lindgren and Rachael Manson Last week they played at the Jeanne Wagner Theatre and at the Egyptian Theatre in Park City It is the Best of tour and one need not doubt its it's one of the funniest tours running Funny and smart The performers proved to tobe tobe tobe be versatile and skilled at Also played through the satirical skits effortless effortlessly I y But it wouldn't do the show justice to simply refer to rib itt asp as as-a as ar satire It mocks l q they expose e t. t through simple jokes And sometimes they combine the two An example example example exam exam- one skit has a couple a aman aman aman man and a woman while the man reads the paper the woman approaches him and asks what he thinks of the new abortion bill The Theman Theman Theman man replies pay it What it it says about today's society is as important tant as well as the reversal at the skits end Though the example above makes the show seem much like a sermon reassuringly it is not Though it does deal with different aspects of society Xenophobia has its moment when a foreign man Arab immigrant shows for a church congre congre- gation There he is asked again and again to stand up and tell him about himself He is asked to confess any sin he has committed or will yet commit The pay payoff payoff payoff off comes when see the congregation work into a panic when he reveals his acquirement of a pilots pilot's license Second City headquarters in Chicago were where Alan Arkin John Jonn Candy Dan Akroyd Gene Levy Bill Murray and many others others others oth oth- ers got their start The theatre spawned many talented show folk many of whom went on to todo todo todo do Saturday Night Live taking with them many cultivated cultivated cultivated cul cul- cul- cul jokes Evidence of this came at ata ata ata a moment when a PTA m meeting eting turned into a rap session which for anyone who watches can resemblance attest a a. a a mon when a newscast a-newscast a also so turns into a rap ses ses- ses- ses sion SIon However the important part is the rapping wasn't a amere amere amere mere parody but out very genuinely genuinely genuinely gen gen- carried out Thus giving a certain level of credibility to the jokes therein There are political jokes as well and a few parodies One skit exhibits a soldier soldier soldier sol sol- sol sol- dier leaving a wealthy Arabians house as he leaves he mentions how hell he'll miss one of the daughters eyes This sends the father into a rage he then sends his daughter into the corner It Itis Itis Itis is an East meets West exhibition exhibition exhibition which ends with some dirty dancing Recently Tina Fey head writer for and Second City alumni told the New Yorker what makes people laugh If you want to make an audience laugh you dress a aman aman aman man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs The spirit of nothing- nothing sacred looms with the troupe skits used words like retard and had jokes involving the handicapped At a moment when it would be easy to pander to the lowest common denominator the MC of the moment declined an audience audience audience audi audi- ence members member's suggestion that they use the word Instead taking on a better suggestion of mation While politically incorrect incorrect incorrect at times what with jokes about handicaps peppered pep pep- peppered peppered in Second Secona City executed comedy tastefully tastefully done r vv t lM Io II u |