| Show COMEDY The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday January 19 E3 1992 1 Comic looks racism square 1 e in the face — and laughs By Martin Renzhofer lines She tells stories Her vocaTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE tion is one advantage she has over Bertice Berry doesn't hesitate to comedians who rely on make herself the target of a joke if and other writers to help with mait will make a point especially terial As a sociologist Ms Berry can already tap into the absurdity when it comes to race relations She tells the story of looking for of the world a white friend at a club frequented Daily news with a slight twist is by blacks Ms Berry arrived late all she needs and couldn't find her friend She "People who see the act say it's funny" Ms Berry said "Everyspotted three whites "I walked up to one and asked thing is written on messages" Ms Berry's goal without 'Do you know Laura?' I looked at her and said 'That's right You all preaching is to make people think about what they're laughing at don't know each other do you?' "I used to say there is no racism "I tell my students that I'm still in Utah because there aren't any Ms said "still growing" Berry blacks" Ms Berry said "But it's a learning myself" Correcting racial and sexual part of America where people are misconceptions is Ms Berry's diverse as is the comedy I d I goal And this professor of sociol use comedy to make people laugh ogy has chosen a unique forum to from the absurdity of life" Ms Berry left high school in get her message across — onstage as a comedian Wilmington Del for college at Jacksonville (Fla) State UniversiTraveling the college circuit Ms Berry uses comety She earned her doctorate in sody as a tool in her fight for social ciology at Kent State University Her method of picking a graduchange and understanding She will bring her act to Kingsbury ate school was unusual She took her school catalogs threw them Hall Monday at 730 pm Her peracross a room and sent an applicaformance sponsored by the Stonetion to any school whose catalog wall Center is part of Utah's cleared her blue throw rug man Rights Day celebration Kent State was the first to reply Ms Berry's performance will mark a return to the stage since so that's where she went Her thesis was Black on black: Disthmishe took a sabbatical from comer differdy While most scholars take a nation based on ences to school break from work profesA friend helped Ms Berry realsionally Ms Berry did the reverse She uses teaching (recently ize her newfound comedy aspirations She was taken to amateur at Austin College in Sherman night at a comedy club and told to Texas) to mine her material to me come just get onstage do her stuff and "Teaching enables be true to herself in and put my finger on the attiShe won the contest She was tudes of young people" she said also named the most popular coShe wants to make her students median on the college circuit by think — for themselves the National Association for Camwalkis students "One problem said 'Dr around pus Activities last year ing Berry saying Ms Berry won't watch other cothis' I want them to think about what I'm saying and provide their medians She doesn't want to be influenced by the joke of the own thinking" Ms Berry doesn't tell jokes in a month traditional sense using punch "Maybe I'll start thinking that I one-line- rs y high-energ- skin-colo- ' -1 Comedy seems another extension of Ms Berry's education She loves performing stand-u- p but i' V 141 ' -- '? 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