Dan Mengini filled Pruis Hall with laughter Wednesday night, joking about everything from religion to plastic grocery bags.
Mengini poked fun at how people tend to say inspirational, religious things to others during hard times but aren't "consistent."
"I've never been relaxing on a beach and had someone come up to me and say ‘Hey! This too, shall pass,'" he said.
Mengini turned to the audience and asked if anyone was offended.
"This too, shall pass," he added.
Mengini made sure to take notice of Indiana's beautiful landscape of corn and red barns.
"[Comedian Andy] Beningo and I drove here from Dayton [Ohio]," he said. "I just thought, ‘Man, if I had a camera, I wouldn't use it.'"
Mengini also educated the audience on what guns and women have in common.
"When you get drunk and grab them, the cops show up 10 minutes later," he said.
Mengini used irony and physical comedy to illustrate how instead of getting paper bags from the grocery store, people weave plastic bags around their fingers so they only have to make one trip from the car.
Sophomore speech mythology major Lisa Carroll said she expected to have fun at Mengini's show, but laughed more than she expected.
"I could relate to a lot of his stuff," she said. "I laughed at everything he said, especially the plastic bag thing."
Sophomore psychology major Gail Goodan said she was surprised there was an opening act for Mengini.
"I think [Beningo] was funnier," she said. "They were different. He seemed more college-like, and [Mengini] talked more about life in general."
Beningo covered morning classes, bad roommates and last-minute papers.
"After having an 8 a.m. class, you say ‘I'm never having an 8 a.m. class again.' After a 10 a.m. class, you say ‘I'm never having an 10 a.m. class again.' After having a noon class, you say, ‘I'm never taking a class again,'" Beningo said.
Goodan said she's looking forward to future comedians at Ball State.
"I hadn't laughed that hard in a long time," she said. "I'll definitely come to another show."
Top lines of the night:
"My roommates would change my paper on my computer before I turned my paper in. I'd get my paper back with a big D-minus on it, and instead of saying ‘Robert E. Lee was a great general,' it'd say ‘Robert E. Lee has a small penis.' It would be underlined in red with a question mark and a note saying ‘Please cite sources.'" — Beningo
"I love your state slogan, ‘Indiana, Crossroads of America.' Doesn't that sound like, ‘Eh, keep driving?'" — Beningo
"I know a great way to meet women. Walk up behind them when they're at a fountain in a mall or a park and after she drops her quarter in, tap on her shoulder and say, ‘Here I am.'" — Mengini
"Women are like houses. When you first see them you think ‘Man, I want that.' Six months later, you say, ‘Man, this is too expensive.'" — Mengini
"I'm a bachelor, and when people tell me no one remembers single men, I say, ‘Jesus was single.' They say, ‘Jesus could walk on water.' I say, ‘No kidding. He didn't have a woman weighing him down.'" — Mengini
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