{"id":1434,"date":"2012-10-25T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2012-10-25T17:00:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T17:00:25","slug":"comedians-bring-laughter-with-a-message-at-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2012\/10\/25\/comedians-bring-laughter-with-a-message-at-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedians bring laughter with a message at show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Comedians, Gary Owen, Miss Dominique and Lav Luv.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kachelle Pratcher<\/strong>
\nBlue & White Flash \/ Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Popular comediennes Lav Luv, Ms. Dominique and Gary Owens brought laughter to the stage at the Jackson State University \u2018One Nation Under the Blue\u2019 annual comedy show.<\/p>\n

Hosted by the Student Government Association, the show was held on Oct. 17 in the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium with a large audience turnout that including students, faculty, staff and alumni.<\/p>\n

Willie Bell, a.k.a. DJ Willie B., a senior education major from Jackson, Miss., started the show off right with music that got the crowd hype while waiting for the show to start.<\/p>\n

The host and first comedian to hit the stage was comedian Lav Luv who has appeared on BET\u2019s \u201cComic View\u201d and HBO\u2019s \u201cDef Comedy Jam\u201d. He had the crowd roaring with laughter with jokes addressing his own college experience.\u00a0 He left the audience with a positive message of staying in school and having fun.<\/p>\n

\u201cWatching Lav Luv on stage was too crazy, I couldn\u2019t believe he was actually here I was laughing so hard in my seat. This comedy show was well worth my money,\u201d said Demonta Rule, a junior mass communications major from Atlanta, Ga.<\/p>\n

The next comedian to hit the stage was Ms. Dominique who came out dancing to the popular \u2018Bands a Make Her Dance\u2019 song.\u00a0 To see her dancing to the music had the crowd laughing uncontrollably. Ms. Dominique has been featured on HBO\u2019s \u201cDef Comedy Jam\u201d and Comedy Central\u2019s \u201cChapelle Show\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dominique\u2019s jokes about campus police had the crowd screaming with laughter.\u00a0 She also addressed positive messages like voting, partying smart and enjoying life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis comedy show was really funny, I can\u2019t even explain how much of a good time I had here tonight,\u201d said sophomore Keisha Jones, a music major from Oxford, Miss.<\/p>\n

Headlining this year\u2019s show was comedian Gary Owen.\u00a0 Owen has also appeared on BET\u2019s \u201cComic View\u201d, sitcom \u201cTyler Perry House of Payne\u201d,\u00a0\u00a0 and movies \u201cLittle Man\u201d and \u201cThink Like a Man\u201d. The crowd cheered and rose to their feet when Owen entered the stage. The crowd absolutely loved him he had everyone laughing so hard tears rolled down their face.<\/p>\n

Owen\u2019s performance was the most audience engaging of the night.\u00a0 He took questions from the audience and even joked about Jackson, Miss favorite word \u2018Ju\u2019. He also did the \u2018Mohead Swag\u2019 dance on stage and had tears of laughter flowing with his routine involving the deaf translator who kept up with his every word.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really enjoyed myself tonight.\u00a0 Gary Owen was hilarious when he was joking with the translator,\u201d said Jalieya Brown, a freshman history and philosophy major from Greenville, Miss. \u201cI\u2019m happy I came because I really needed a good laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kachelle Pratcher Blue & White Flash \/ Staff Writer Popular comediennes Lav Luv, Ms. Dominique and Gary Owens brought laughter to the stage at the Jackson State University \u2018One Nation Under the Blue\u2019 annual comedy show. Hosted by the Student Government Association, the show was held on Oct. 17 in the Rose E. McCoy Auditorium […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-variety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}