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That's right, two shows at two schools in one day! A noon show at Northeastern Wisconsin Technical College and a late show at Ripon College.

Now, in the world of college entertainment, noon shows in the cafeteria are famously bad experiences for comedy performers. You have to take hits to your ego as people walk through the room ignoring you, and students ignore you in favor of reading their school materials, and hear background chatter. We need focus! But schools with commuter student bodies pretty much have to put on noon shows due to the fact that the entire campus leaves after class is over, and we would be performing to an empty room. You know the old zen saying about the tree falling in the forrest? Well, the same goes for a comedy show. If you tell a joke and nobody is around to laugh at it, is it funny?

Anyway, Jonathan and I have a unique skill skill set and background for dealing with this kind of problem because we are variety performers who have done street shows. We don't do the normal show with slides, and weird theatrical moments like Jonathan knitting a sweater in a matter of minutes; we mostly do a series of tricks, but it still has the essence of the SHOWOFF Show, and it's darn funny. We even throw in a couple of skills that aren't normally in the full show. Anyway, it was a good show.

And then we were off to Ripon College, home of the "Red Hawks". The students told us that the mascot doesn't have a name, and we all decided that the name should be "Rip". This show was pretty straightforward, which is good. Totally solid group of kids at this small liberal arts school!

--EvAN