I was in store for more than a few laughs when I arrived at Mother’s last Saturday evening to see Brad Lowery’s comedy routine. Lowery, a four-time comedian of the year nominee, has opened for popular stand-ups Adam Sandler and Chris Rock. His act has been featured on the TV programs “Star Search” and “Caroline’s Comedy Hour.”
For his first skit, Lowery brought up a sore spot among RPI guys: the lack of girls on campus. Counting the audience members, Lowery noticed that only five of them were female. This ratio—though not very shocking to any students at RPI—was surprisingly funny to Lowery.
A few minutes later found him on a tangent about flying after September 11. Lowery was mystified by questions that airline officials are required to ask travelers. He also suggested that because planes do not land on mountains or in the middle of oceans, flight attendants should refer to them as crashes instead—he makes a good point.
After bringing up all the usual comic subjects—condoms, differences between Chinese and Japanese people, and, above all, how not to impress a date—Lowery returned to the popular topic of women. By reading Cosmopolitan Magazine to see what women are plotting, Lowery has learned two very important lessons: Men always screw up, and women are smarter than men. (For some reason I feel my female readers will agree.) Lowrey has also noticed that women always use both sides of their brain but men can only use one side at a time—this is the reason why women always complain about having frequent headaches.
Observation of these differences between the sexes led Lowery to conclude that women are really alien. As proof of that, Lowery told the audience about his ex-wife’s thirteen personalities, and how he thinks he has been cursed by God, having only daughters. He also shared a memory about how his fourteen year old daughter “became a woman”—a very inhuman experience. Keeping the audience on their toes, Lowery changed the topic to drinking responsibly and casual vomiting.
While commenting on taking responsibility for one’s actions , Lowery made my day by suggesting that a law should be written to permit smacking people for being stupid. As an example, he described a man suffering from lung cancer who sued a tobacco company because their ads make smoking look fun. Lowery noted that though Playtex depicts happy women running down the beach, we shouldn’t all rush out to the store to buy tampons.
Wrapping up his act, Lowery told the audience about how his girlfriend’s cat had broken its leg in five places after getting stuck in a Christmas tree, what to look for when shopping for coffins, and, moving back to how women manipulate men, accused women of using sex like Scooby Snacks—a very strange analogy.
Overall, Lowery’s comedy act was well worth seeing, and I would recommend catching him if you have the chance to do so.
