Comedian Evan Wecksell held a show at the Witherspoon Student Center Monday to support the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which funds cancer research.
Wecksell, a Theta Chi alumnus, goes to colleges around the country to perform acts for the fraternity’s brotherhood events and Greek Week. He has also been on networks such as Comedy Central, VH1, CBS, Fox and TBS.
“I love getting to a big, well known D1 school,” Wecksell said. “I went to a D3 school. It was a mid-sized school in the northeast and it’s good to be among the masses.”
Remington Campbell, a sophomore in computer science, was the Theta Chi brother that organized the event and invited Wecksell to come to N.C. State.
“It was a fun night with raunchy, college humor,” Campbell said.
Wecksell often interacted with the audience and invited several Theta Chi brothers to dance on stage to randomly selected songs, including hits from the Backstreet Boys and Michael Buble.
Wecksell’s act included comedic songs he writes and performs on his guitar. He also went through a list of the top 10 reasons N.C. State is a great school, accompanied by jokes related to Greek life.
“The number one thing about N.C. State is you’re not Duke and you’re not UNC,” Wecksell put at the top of the list. He joked about being in Theta Chi and many of the audience members joined in with funny stories of their own.
Wecksell’s act also included bits about incoming freshmen getting used to college, Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. He also performed Bruno Mars’ song “Just the Way You Are” with words randomly inserted that the audience chose, just like a “Mad Libs” book.
Megan McDowell, a freshman in Psychology, went to Comedy Night with her Kappa Delta sisters to support Theta Chi because they are their homecoming partners this year. She said Kappa Delta wanted to show its support since the Theta Chi fraternity participated in their Philanthropy Event, Pig n Pie.
“I sat with all my Kappa Delta sisters and had a ton of fun,” McDowell said. “The comedian was hilarious, and when he made fun of the brothers it made things a million times better. I would definitely do it again.”
Wecksell said his decision to become a comedian came during a marketing seminar he took after college, when he noticed he could easily make people laugh. After several temporary jobs, he decided to get in contact with his Theta Chi fraternity to perform comedy acts with their Greek organizations. The first event Wecksell attended with Theta Chi was at Wake Forest.
Wecksell performed more than 100 shows last year at 50 colleges. He was named “Hot Comedian for 2009” by Campus Activities Magazine.
